Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

Gaozu 高祖

Attested AD 471 - AD 499

Passages: 7
Chapters: 3
Histories: 1

Overview

Gaozu was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 471 to AD 499 高祖
Directly stated · Book of Wei 30, passages 51, 96, 102
AD 471 to AD 499 高祖
Strongly inferred · Book of Wei 96, passage 241
AD 471 高祖延興元年十二月
Directly stated · Book of Wei 111, passage 250

Key source chapters

Book of Wei, Chapter 30 Volume 25: Zhang Sunsong, Zhangsun Daosheng 5 passages
Book of Wei, Chapter 96 Volume 90: Retired Officals: Sui Kua, Feng Liang, Li Mi, Zheng Xiu 1 passage
Book of Wei, Chapter 111 Volume 105a Treatise 1: Celestial Phenomena 1 1 passage

Places and affiliations

Polity Northern Wei 北魏 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Book of Wei 30, passage 51
Polity Northern Wei 北魏 · Relation Ruled
Strongly inferred · Book of Wei 111, passage 250

Source notes

Collation note discusses a solar-eclipse entry dated to Yanxing 1 under Gaozu and judges the calendar day impossible for an eclipse.
Directly stated · Book of Wei 111, passage 250

References in the histories

Book of Wei, Chapter 30Volume 25: Zhang Sunsong, Zhangsun Daosheng · 5 passages

後高祖追錄先朝功臣，以嵩配饗廟庭。 Later Gaozu, honoring the founders, had Song given a place in the ancestral temple.

高祖初，拜殿中尚書、侍中。 Early in Gaozu's reign he was made Director in the Palace Department and attendant-in-ordinary.

高祖以其幼承家業，賜名稚，字承業。 Gaozu, seeing him take up the house while still a boy, gave him the name Zhi, styled Chengye.

為前將軍，從高祖南討，授七兵尚書、太常卿、右將軍。 As forward general he followed Gaozu south and received the posts of minister of the seven arms, grand minister of ceremonies, and right general.

昔高祖昇平之年，無所乏少，猶創置鹽官而加典護，非為物而競利，恐由利而亂俗也。 Even in Gaozu's peaceful years, without want, he set salt officers and overseers—not for profit but lest profit corrupt custom.

Book of Wei, Chapter 96Volume 90: Retired Officals: Sui Kua, Feng Liang, Li Mi, Zheng Xiu · 1 passage

謐嘗詣故太常卿劉芳推問音義，語及中代興廢之由，芳乃歎曰：『君若遇高祖，侍中、太常非僕有也。』 Mi once visited former Minister of Ceremonies Liu Fang on sounds and meanings; speaking of dynastic rise and fall, Fang sighed: "Had you met Gaozu, Secretariat Director and Minister of Ceremonies would not have been mine."

Book of Wei, Chapter 111Volume 105a Treatise 1: Celestial Phenomena 1 · 1 passage

高祖延興元年十二月癸卯日有蝕之按是年十二月乙酋朔，癸卯是十九日，不應有日蝕。 The entry "In the twelfth month of Yanxing 1, on guimao day, the sun was eclipsed" is erroneous: that year's twelfth month began on yiyou, and guimao is the nineteenth day—no eclipse should occur then.