Five Dynasties · Ruler

Zhu Quanzhong 朱全忠

Died AD 912

Passages
284
Chapters
28
Histories
4

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhu Quanzhong as an aristocrat, family member, general, and military officer. This record brings together 284 passages from 28 chapters across 4 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Zhu Quanzhong 朱全忠 Zhu Quanzhong
Title Broadly Filial Emperor
Title emperor 皇帝 huangdi
Title Emperor
Title Emperor Di
Temple Emperor Taizu 太祖 Taizu
Temple Emperor Taizu of Liang 梁太祖 Liang Taizu
Title Founder 梁祖 Liang zu
Title Founder 太祖 Tàizǔ
Title Founding Emperor 先帝
Title Founding Emperor 太祖
Temple name Founding Emperor of Liang 梁太祖
Personal Huang Huang
Title Liang founder 梁祖
Title Liang Founder 梁祖 Liángzǔ
Title Liang Founder 梁太祖
Title Liang Founder 梁祖
Title Liang founding emperor 梁祖 Liáng Zǔ
Title Liang king 梁王
Title Liang King Zhu Quanzhong 梁王朱全忠 Liáng wáng Zhū Quánzhōng
Alternate Liang Taizu 梁太祖
Alternate Liang Taizu 梁祖
Temple name Liang Taizu 梁祖
Title Liang Taizu 梁太祖 Liang Taizu
Temple name Liang Taizu 梁太祖 Liáng Tàizǔ
Title Liang Taizu 梁太祖
Alternate name Liang Taizu 梁太祖 Liang Taizu
Title Prince of Liang 梁王 Liang Wang
Title Prince of Liang 梁王
Given Quanzhong 全忠
Personal Quanzhong 全忠 Quanzhong
Given Quanzhong 全忠 Quanzhong
Alternate Quanzhong Quanzhong
Title Sagely, Civil, Holy, Martial, and Broadly Filial Emperor 睿文聖武廣孝皇帝
Title Son of Heaven 天子 Tianzi
Temple Taizu 太祖 Taizu
Temple name Taizu 太祖 Taizu
Title Taizu 太祖 Taizu
Temple name Taizu 太祖
Title Taizu of Liang 梁太祖 Liang Taizu
Temple Taizu of Liang 梁太祖 Liang Taizu
Title the Founder 太祖 Taizu
Temple name the Founder 太祖 Taizu
Title the king
Title the late emperor 先皇帝 xianhuangdi
Title the Liang founder 梁祖
Title The Liang founder 梁祖
Title The Liang founder 梁太祖
Given Wen Wen
Surname Zhu
Personal name Zhu Quanzhong 朱全忠 Zhu Quanzhong
Personal Zhu Quanzhong 朱全忠
Personal Zhu Quanzhong 硃全忠 Zhu Quanzhong
Alternate Zhu Quanzhong 朱全忠
Personal name Zhu Quanzhong 朱全忠 Zhū Quánzhōng
Alternate name Zhu Third 朱三 Zhu San
Nickname Zhu Third 朱三 Zhū Sān
Personal name Zhu Wen 朱溫 Zhu Wen
Personal Zhu Wen 朱溫 Zhū Wēn
Personal Zhu Wen Zhu Wen
Personal Zhu Wen 朱溫 Zhu Wen
Personal name Zhu Wen 朱溫 Zhū Wēn
Alternate 硃全忠

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • Family Member
  • General
  • Military Officer
  • Rebel
  • Ruler
  • Warlord

Life and dates

Death

Age

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Family

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  • Descendant of Zhu Xin (朱信)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Descendant of Revered Ancestor Emperor Guang Xian (敬祖光憲皇帝)
    Kinship Term: great-grandfather / 曾祖 · Generation Distance: 3 · Line: paternal
  • Descendant of Sole Ancestor Emperor Xuan Yuan (肅祖宣元皇帝)
    Kinship Term: imperial high ancestor / 皇高祖 · Generation Distance: 4 · Line: paternal
  • Parent of Zhu Youwen (朱友文)
    Kinship Term: adopted son / 假子 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 2
    Kinship Term: adopted son / 養子 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: uncertain · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Zhu Yourang (朱友讓)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: adoptive
    Kinship Term: adopted son / 假子 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: adoptive-son · Object Role: adoptive-father
  • Kin of Zhu Youlun (朱友倫)
    Kinship Term: brother's son / nephew / 兄子 · Subject Role: uncle · Object Role: nephew
    Kinship Term: Prince of Mi / 密王
    Kinship Term: imperial nephew / 皇侄 · Subject Role: nephew · Object Role: uncle
  • Kin of Zhu Youning (朱友寧)
    Kinship Term: brother's son / nephew / 兄子 · Subject Role: uncle · Object Role: nephew
    Kinship Term: imperial nephew / 皇侄 · Subject Role: nephew · Object Role: uncle
  • Spouse of Mother of Zhu Yougui (亳州營倡)
    Kinship Term: camp singer / 營倡 · Parentage: uncertain · Union Category: concubinage · Relationship State: uncertain
    Kinship Term: took to his bed / 侍寢 · Union Category: concubinage · Relationship State: formed
  • Spouse of Lady Chen (陳氏)
    Kinship Term: consort / 昭儀 · Union Category: concubinage · Subject Role: consort · Object Role: husband
  • Spouse of Lady Li (李氏)
    Kinship Term: consort / 昭容 · Union Category: concubinage · Subject Role: consort · Object Role: husband
  • Parent of Princess Changle (長樂公主)
    Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
  • Parent of Princess Jinhua (金華公主)
    Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
    Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
  • Parent of Princess Puning (普寧公主)
    Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
    Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
  • Parent of Princess Zhenning (真寧公主)
    Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
    Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
  • Parent of You Zi (友孜)
    Kinship Term: eighth son / 第八子 · Parentage: biological · Object Birth Order: 8
  • Sibling of Quan Yu (全昱)
    Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Relative Age: uncertain · Shared Parentage: uncertain
    Kinship Term: eldest brother / 長兄 · Parentage: biological · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Birth Order: 1 · Shared Parentage: full
  • Sibling of Zhu Yu (朱昱)
    Kinship Term: eldest brother / 伯兄 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger · Object Birth Order: 1 · Subject Birth Order: 3
    Kinship Term: eldest elder brother / 伯兄 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Birth Order: 1 · Object Birth Order: 3
  • Parent of Princess Anyang (安陽公主)
    Kinship Term: eldest daughter / 長女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter · Object Birth Order: 1
    Kinship Term: eldest daughter / 長女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father · Subject Birth Order: 1
  • Parent of Youyu (友裕)
    Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Subject Birth Order: 1 · Object Birth Order: 1
    Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 1
  • Spouse of Empress Yuanzhen (元貞皇后張氏)
    Kinship Term: wife / 婦 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband
    Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife
    Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Relationship State: active
  • Parent of Daughter of Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠女)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: child
  • Child of Zhu Cheng (朱誠)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 3
    Parentage: biological · Line: paternal
    Kinship Term: father / 考 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Line: paternal
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Subject Birth Order: 3
  • Parent of Zhu Yougui (朱友圭)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
    Kinship Term: next son / 次 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 3
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Spouse of Younger sister of Duan Ning (凝妹)
    Kinship Term: favored consort / 美人 · Union Category: concubinage · Relationship State: active
  • Parent of You Zhang (友璋)
    Kinship Term: fifth son / 第五子 · Parentage: biological · Object Birth Order: 5
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Sibling of Cun (存)
    Kinship Term: imperial elder brother / 皇兄 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full
  • Child of Empress Dowager Wenhui (文惠皇太后王氏)
    Kinship Term: mother / 妣 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother · Subject Birth Order: 3
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 3
    Parentage: biological
  • Kin of You Neng (友能)
    Kinship Term: nephew / 姪 · Subject Role: uncle · Object Role: nephew
  • Kin of You Liang (友諒)
    Kinship Term: nephew / 姪 · Subject Role: uncle · Object Role: nephew
  • Kin of You Hui (友誨)
    Kinship Term: nephew / 姪 · Subject Role: uncle · Object Role: nephew
  • Parent of Youzhen (友貞)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: third son / 第三子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Subject Birth Order: 3 · Line: paternal
    Kinship Term: next son / 次 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 4
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Kin of Zhu Youqian (友謙)
    Kinship Term: Prince of Ji / 冀王
  • Sibling of Zhu Cun (朱存)
    Kinship Term: second brother / 仲兄 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger · Object Birth Order: 2 · Subject Birth Order: 3
    Kinship Term: second elder brother / 仲兄 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Birth Order: 2 · Object Birth Order: 3
  • Parent of You Hui (友徽)
    Kinship Term: seventh son / 第七子 · Parentage: biological · Object Birth Order: 7
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of You Yong (友雍)
    Kinship Term: sixth son / 第六子 · Parentage: biological · Object Birth Order: 6
  • Parent of Gao Jixing (高季興)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: adoptive-son · Object Role: adoptive-father · Negated: false
  • Parent of Zhu Youzhen (朱友貞)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Tingluan (廷鸞)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological
  • Parent of Luoluo (落落)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological

Career and standing

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: able to carry out his will because Zhaozong lacked loyal ministers beside him · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  • Assessment: after Zhang's death plunged into debauchery and incest · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  • Assessment: built hegemony by light taxes and agricultural promotion while soldiers fought · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  • Assessment: cunning and without proper conduct in youth · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Scattered Dreams of the Northern Quarter / 北夢瑣言
  • Assessment: Did not die a proper death; burial therefore not recorded in annalistic form · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: yu (予)
  • Assessment: filial and reverent toward Empress Dowager · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  • Assessment: harsh military discipline; battles thereafter always victorious · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  • Assessment: In an age fond of killing, even a minor pardon shows some impulse to care for the people · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: yu (予)
  • Assessment: strict in law; eased punishments when mother intervened · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  • Assessment: tiger-wolf heart restrained by Zhang's virtue · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  • Kind: character · Statement: irascible and quick-tempered
  • Item: Xuan Mausoleum / 宣陵 · Relation: tomb
  • Item: Xuanling tomb / 宣陵 · Relation: tomb-named

Source notes

References in the histories

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 181Volume 177 Biographies 127: Cui Shenyou, Cui Gong, Lu Jun, Pei Xiu, Yang Shou, Wei Baoheng, Lu Yan, Xiao Houzi, Liu Zhan, Liu Zhuan, Cao Que, Bi Xian, Du Shenquan, Liu Ye, Dou Luzhan · 11 passages
Old Book of Tang, Chapter 185Volume 181 Biographies 131: Shi Xiancheng, Zi Xiaozhang, He Jintao, Han Yunzhong, Li Yanzhen, Luo Hongxin · 7 passages
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 7Volume 7 Book of Later Liang 7: Taizu Annals 7 · 39 passages
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 11Volume 11 Book of Later Liang 11: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 23 passages
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 12Volume 12 Book of Later Liang 12: Biographies 2: Imperial Family · 32 passages
因為博戲,全昱酒酣,忽起取骰子擊盆迸散,大呼梁祖曰:「朱三,汝碭山一民,因天下饑荒,入黃巢作賊,天子用汝為四鎮節度使,富貴足矣,何故滅他李家三百年社稷,稱王稱朕,吾不忍見血吾族矣,安用博為!」 At dice play Quan Yu, drunk, leaped up, smashed the bowl with his dice, and shouted at the Liang founder: "Zhu Third! You were a peasant from Dangshan who joined Huang Chao's rebels in famine; the throne made you lord of four circuits—that should have been enough. Why wipe out the Li dynasty's three-century altars and call yourself king and Son of Heaven? I will not watch our family slaughtered—why gamble at all!"
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 16Volume 16 Book of Later Liang 16: Biographies 6: Ge Congzhou, Xie Yanzhang, He Zhen, Zhang Guiba, Zhang Guihou, Zhang Guibian · 35 passages
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 24Volume 24 Book of Later Liang 24: Biographies 14: Li Ting, Lu Ceng, Sun Zhi, Zhang Jun, Zhang Yan, Du Xunhe, Luo Yin, Chou Yin, Duan Shen · 35 passages
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 50Volume 50 Book of Later Tang 26: Biographies 2: Imperial Family · 2 passages
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 51Volume 51 Book of Later Tang 27: Biographies 3: Imperial Family · 1 passage
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 62Volume 62 Book of Later Tang 38: Biographies 14: Meng Fangli, Zhang Wenli, Dong Zhang · 6 passages
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 65Volume 65 Book of Later Tang 41: Biographies 17: Li Jianji, Shi Junli, Gao Xinggui, Zhang Tingyu, Wang Sitong, Suo Zitong · 1 passage
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 5 passages
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 71Volume 71 Book of Later Tang 47: Biographies 23: Ma Yu, Si Kongting, Cao Tingyin, Xiao Xifu, Yao Zongzhi, Jia Fu, Ma Gao, Luo Guan, Chun Yuyan, Zhang Ge, Xu Ji, Zhou Xuanbao · 1 passage
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 72Volume 72 Book of Later Tang 48: Biographies 24: Zhang Chengye, Zhang Juhan, Ma Shaohong, Meng Hangqiong · 4 passages
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 73Volume 73 Book of Later Tang 49: Biographies 25: Mao Zhang, Nie Yu, Wen Tao, Duan Ning, Kong Qian, Li Ye · 5 passages
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 146Volume 146: Treatises 8 Finance and Economics · 1 passage
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 147Volume 147: Treatises 9 Punishment and Law · 2 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 75Volume 75 Biographies 5: Yelu Dilie, Yelu Duozhen, Wang Yu, Yelu Tulujiong · 1 passage
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 2Volume 2 Later Liang Annals 2: Taizu 2 · 8 passages
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 3Volume 3 Later Liang Annals 3: Later Emperors · 6 passages
象先遣赵岩持传国宝至东都,请王入洛阳,王报曰:「夷门,太祖所以兴王业也,北拒并汾,东至淮海,国家藩镇,多在东方,命将出师,利于便近。」 Xiangxian sent Zhao Yan with the imperial seal to the eastern capital, inviting Youzhen to Luoyang. He answered: “Yimen is where Taizu founded the dynasty. It commands the north against Bing and Fen and the Huai and sea in the east. Most of our provinces lie eastward, and campaigns are easier when the court stays near the front.”
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 16Volume 16: Family of the Tang Deposed Emperor · 1 passage
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 23Volume 23 Later Liang Biographies 3: Yang Shihou, Wang Jingren, He Gui, Wang Tan, Ma Sixun, Wang Qianyu, Xie Yanzhang · 1 passage
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 32Volume 32 Biographies of Martyrs to Virtue 12: Wang Yanzhang · 2 passages
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 35Volume 35 Biographies 15: Zhan Wenyu, Yang She, Zhang Ce, Zhao Guangfeng, Xue Yiju, Su Xun · 21 passages
是歲四月,彗出西北,掃文昌、軒轅、天市,宰相柳璨希梁王旨,歸其譴於大臣,於是左僕射裴樞、獨孤損、右僕射崔遠、守太保致仕趙崇、兵部侍郎王贊、工部尚書王溥、吏部尚書陸扆皆以無罪貶,同日賜死於白馬驛。 That fourth month a comet swept the northwest heavens; Liu Can pleased Liang by blaming the ministers; Pei Shu, Dugu Sun, Cui Yuan, Zhao Chong, Wang Zan, Wang Pu, and Lu Yi were demoted without crime and executed the same day at White Horse Station.
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 38Volume 38 Biographies 18: Zhang Chengye, Zhang Juhan · 2 passages
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 41Volume 41 Miscellaneous Biographies 21: Lu Guangchou, Tan Quanbo, Lei Man, Zhong Chuan, Zhao Kuangning · 9 passages
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 44Volume 44 Miscellaneous Biographies 24: Liu Zhijun, Ding Hui, He Delun, Yan Bao, Kang Yanxiao · 17 passages
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 69Volume 69: Hereditary House of Nanping · 6 passages
天復二年,梁兵攻鳳翔,李茂貞堅壁不出,太祖議欲收軍還河中,季興獨進曰:「天下豪傑窺此舉者一歲矣,今岐人已憊,破在旦夕,而大王之所慮者,閉壁以老我師,此可以誘致之也。」 In the second year of Tianfu, Liang forces besieged Fengxiang while Li Maozhen held the walls and refused to give battle. The Founding Emperor considered withdrawing to Hezhong, but Jixing alone stepped forward and said, "For a year the empire's strongmen have watched this campaign. The Qi forces are worn out now and will fall any day. What worries you, my lord, is their strategy of shutting the gates to exhaust our army—that is something we can lure them out of."