Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Rebel

Tang Yuzhi 唐㝢之

Attested AD 483 - AD 493

Passages: 7
Chapters: 4
Histories: 2

Overview

Tang Yuzhi was a rebel.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Alternate name	Young Tao	陶郎

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 486 三年
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 19, passage 210
AD 486 明年
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 19, passage 193
AD 483 to AD 493 永明中
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 24, passage 20
AD 486 永明四年
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 105
AD 483 to AD 493 齊永明中
Directly stated · Book of Liang 16, passage 88

Key source chapters

Places and affiliations

Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Rebelled against
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 19, passages 193, 210
Polity Southern Qi 齊 · Relation Rebelled against
Directly stated · Book of Liang 24, passage 20
At Qiantang 錢唐
Directly stated · Book of Liang 24, passage 20

Works and attributed material

Slogan · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 19, passage 210

Events and relationships

Rebelled
AD 483 to AD 493 永明中 · Rebellion · Leader
Directly stated · Book of Liang 24, passage 20
Rose in revolt
AD 486 永明四年 · Rebellion · Leader
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 19, passages 193, 210

Source notes

Ballad figure Young Tao (陶郎) was read as foretelling Tang Yu under the slogan that Tang comes to bring relief
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 19, passages 208, 210

References in the histories

Book of Liang, Chapter 16Volume 16: Wang Liang; Zhang Ji; Wang Ying · 1 passage

會賊唐㝢之作亂，稷率厲縣人，保全縣境。 When the bandit Tang Yuzhi rebelled, Ji led and encouraged the county people and preserved the county territory.

Book of Liang, Chapter 24Volume 24: Xiao Jing; Xiao Chang; Xiao Ang; Xiao Yu · 1 passage

永明中，錢唐唐㝢之反，別衆破東陽，崇之遇害。 During Yongming, Tang Yu of Qiantang rebelled; a rebel detachment overran Dongyang, and Chongzhi was killed in the fighting.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 19Volume 19 Treatises 11: Five Elements · 3 passages

永民三年，大旱，明年，唐㝢之起。 Yongming 3: severe drought; the year after, Tang Yu rebelled.

後句閒云「陶郎來」。 The next line ran "Young Tao is coming."

三年，妖賊唐㝢之起，言唐來勞也。 In the third year the outlaw Tang Yu rebelled—his slogan that Tang had come to ease their toil.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 56Volume 56 Biographies 37: Trusted Officials · 2 passages

四年，白賊唐宇之起，宿衞兵東討，遣係宗隨軍慰勞，徧至遭賊郡縣。 In the fourth year the White-bandit rebel Tang Yuzhi rose. The palace guard marched east to suppress him, and Xizong was sent with the army to offer comfort and rewards, visiting every commandery and county the rebels had ravaged.

係宗啓謫役東民丁隨宇之爲逆者，上從之。 Xizong proposed assigning corvée labor from eastern households that had followed Yuzhi in rebellion, and the emperor agreed.