Sui and Tang · Ruler

Zuwu 阻午

Attested AD 713 - AD 850

Passages
17
Chapters
6
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Zuwu as a ruler and tribal leader. This record brings together 17 passages from 6 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Zuwu 阻午 Zuwu
Personal Dilian Zuli 迪輦祖裏
Title Khan 可汗 Khan
Title khan Zuowu 阻午可汗
Title Khan Zuowu 阻午可汗 Zuowu Kehan
Regnal Khan Zuowu 阻午可汗
Title Khan Zuwu 阻午可汗 Zǔwǔ Kèhán
Title Khan Zuwu 午阻可汗
Regnal Khan Zuwu 阻午可汗 Zuwu Kehan
Personal Khan Zuwu 阻午可汗 Zuwu
Title Yaolian Khan Zuwu 遙輦阻午可汗
Personal name Zuowu 阻午 Zǔwǔ
Personal name Zuwu 阻午 Zǔwǔ

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Ruler
  • Tribal Leader

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 唐開元、天寶間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 713 · End: AD 756
    Explicit · liaoshi:032:s0147
  • Source Date: Text: 阻午可汗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 735 · End: AD 745
    Explicit · liaoshi:033:s0013
  • Source Date: Text: 阻午可汗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 730 · End: AD 760
    Uncertain · liaoshi:061:s0011
  • Source Date: Text: 阻午可汗制柴冊、再生儀 · Western Interval: Start: AD 735 · End: AD 745
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:049:s0016
  • Source Date: Text: 阻午可汗時代 · Western Year: AD 750
    Strongly inferred · liaoshi:116:s0024, liaoshi:116:s0093
  • Source Date: Text: 阻午可汗析為二十部 · Western Interval: Start: AD 713 · End: AD 756
    Explicit · liaoshi:032:s0088
  • Source Date: Text: 雅裏辭立之時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 750 · End: AD 850
    Explicit · liaoshi:073:s0060

Family

  • Sibling of Saliben (撒裏本)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Title: Khan Zuwu / 阻午可汗 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 立迪輦祖裏為阻午可汗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 713 · End: AD 756
    Explicit · liaoshi:032:s0147

Places and affiliations

Events and relationships

  • Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: appointed-Yali · Other Person Id: Yali (雅裏)
    Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0011
  • Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: assigned-camp-share-to-younger-brother · Other Person Id: Hangwo (航斡) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 阻午可汗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 735 · End: AD 745
    Explicit · liaoshi:033:s0066
  • Kind: political · Role: reorganizer · Action: divided-into-twenty-bu · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 阻午可汗析為二十部 · Western Interval: Start: AD 713 · End: AD 756
  • Kind: ritual · Role: institutor · Action: established-chai-ce-rite
    Explicit · liaoshi:116:s0093
  • Kind: ritual · Role: institutor · Action: instituted · Object: Wood-Bundle and Rebirth rites / 柴冊、再生儀 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 阻午可汗制柴冊、再生儀 · Western Interval: Start: AD 735 · End: AD 745
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:049:s0016
  • Kind: administrative · Role: leader · Action: jointly-governed-Diela · Other Person Id: Saliben (撒裏本)
    Explicit · liaoshi:116:s0024
  • Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: made-camp-into-division · Other Person Id: Nanshou (拿女手) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 阻午可汗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 735 · End: AD 745
    Explicit · liaoshi:033:s0042
  • Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: made-camp-into-division · Other Person Id: Wa (窪) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 阻午可汗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 735 · End: AD 745
    Explicit · liaoshi:033:s0050
  • Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: split-shared-camp-into-two-divisions · Other Person Id: Salibu (撒裏卜) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 阻午可汗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 735 · End: AD 745
    Explicit · liaoshi:033:s0055

Source notes

  • From: Dilian Zuli / 迪輦祖裏 · To: Khan Zuwu / 阻午可汗 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 立迪輦祖裏為阻午可汗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 713 · End: AD 756
    Explicit · liaoshi:032:s0147

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 32Volume 32 Treatises 2: Management of Guards 2 · 4 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 33Volume 33 Treatises 3: Management of Guards 3 · 8 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 49Volume 49 Treatises 19: Rites 1 · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 61Volume 61 Treatises 31: Punishment and Law 1 · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 73Volume 73 Biographies 3: Yelu Helu, Xiao Dilu, Yelu Xieniechi, Yelu Yuwen, Yelu Haili · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 116Volume 116: Explanation of State Language · 2 passages