High Ancestor 高祖

Family

• Parent of Xiao Yi (蕭繹)
  clan foundation stone 宗
  Strongly inferred · Book of Liang 6, passage 164
• Parent of Taizong (太宗)
  heir 儲后
  Strongly inferred · Book of Liang 6, passages 151, 159

• kin met calamity 天倫及禍
  Kinship Role kin · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Wei Zheng (魏徵) · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 140

Places and affiliations

• Polity Liang 梁 · Relation Ruled
  Strongly inferred · Book of Liang 6, passages 139, 143

Learning and skills

• Belief Buddhism 釋 · Relation Adherent of · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 145
• Belief Confucianism 儒業 · Relation Patron of · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 143
• Belief Daoism 老 · Relation Adherent of · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 145

Works and attributed material

• Millet in Ruin (Shuli) 黍離
  Relation Compared to · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 154
• Wheat in Ear (Maixiu) 麥秀
  Relation Compared to · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 155
• Zhou could be punished 紂可伐
  Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Mode direct-quotation Speaker High Ancestor (高祖)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 141

Events and relationships

• Cultivated wen and education, adorned ritual, stirred mysterious wind, exalted Confucian learning; weapons laid aside for decades
  Cultural · Patron · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 143
• Gathered righteous troops to avenge family calamity
  Military · Commander · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 140
• Hung the enemy's head on the white flag and answered Heaven's favor
  Political · Victor · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 143
• Moved by profit; rejected remonstrance and defied divination; opened the gate to robbers; abandoned friendship for enmity; trouble rose within the palace
  Political · Actor · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 153
• Rose at Fan and Han and struck Xiang and Ying; cut down the alienated in virtue and took the lone tyrant
  Military · Commander · At Fan, Han, Xiang, Ying 樊、漢、湘、郢 · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 141

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment could not rest the branch and strengthen the root; admired reputation, loved novelty, honored floating splendor; elevated and suppressed Confucius and Mozi; lingered over Buddhism and Daoism · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 145
• Assessment heart had not left glory; vainly sat among menials; talked of casting off the world yet cherished the yellow canopy · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passages 147-148
• Assessment heroic talent and great design beyond full praise · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 142
• Assessment in late decline, deluded in what he heard; power with flatterers; heir and officials could not speak fully · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 151
• Assessment intelligent, versed in antiquity, nearly innate in the Way, broadly learned, civil and martial, many arts and talents · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 139
• Assessment met hardship and stripping and did not die naturally because he moved toward peril without faith and obedience, losing Heaven's and men's help · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 6, passage 158