Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Dynastic Founder

Zhou Taizu 周太祖

Attested c. AD 534 - c. AD 556

Passages
5
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhou Taizu as a ruler. This record brings together 5 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Zhou Taizu 周太祖 Zhou Taizu
Title Taizu of Zhou 周太祖
Title Zhou dynastic founder 周太祖
Temple Zhou Taizu 周太祖 Zhou Taizu
Title reference Zhou Taizu 周太祖

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 周太祖 · Western Interval: Start: c. AD 535 · End: c. AD 556
    Strongly inferred · suishu:054:s0006, suishu:054:s0035
  • Source Date: Text: 周太祖見而大悅 · Western Interval: Start: c. AD 534 · End: c. AD 551
    Explicit event contextual date · suishu:054:s0121
  • Source Date: Text: 建義關中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 534 · End: AD 556
    Explicit · suishu:043:s0007

Works and attributed material

  • Kind: remark · Role: speaker · Statement: Duke Wang has this grandson—that alone is enough to make his line immortal. · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Zhou Taizu (周太祖)
    Explicit · suishu:054:s0006

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: delighted to see Heng and his mother; treated Heng with exceptional favor as the son of a founding minister · Provenance: Mode: narrator-report
    Explicit · suishu:054:s0121

References in the histories

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Book of Sui, Chapter 43Volume 43 Biographies 8: He Jian Wanghong, Yang Chugang, Yang Zichong, Guang De, Wang Xiong · 1 passage
Book of Sui, Chapter 54Volume 54 Biographies 19: Wang Zhangshu, Li Yan, Yi Louqian, Tian Rengong, Yuan Heng, Du Zheng, Li Che, Cui Peng · 4 passages