Tuoba Tao (燾) | 24 Histories

Overview

Tuoba Tao was a ruler.

IdentityHistorical · Male

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Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Alternate name	Boli	佛狸	Fúlí

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 444 元嘉二十一年
Directly stated · Book of Song 88, passage 8
AD 430 元嘉七年北伐
Dated from the passage context · Book of Song 65, passage 96
AD 450 to AD 451 元嘉北伐
Dated from the passage context · Book of Song 76, passage 102
AD 432 to AD 434 延和
Directly stated · Book of Wei 89, passage 241
AD 439 to AD 450 慕延時攻伐
Directly stated · Book of Song 96, passage 91
AD 430 to AD 432 是歲
Dated from the passage context · Book of Song 96, passage 79

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AD 423 景平元年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Song 4, passage 35
AD 430 to AD 431 滑臺陷後
Dated from the passage context · Book of Song 76, passage 12

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Kin of Yingwen Tele (英文特勒)
paternal uncle 叔父 · paternal line · Through Father of Tuoba Tao (托跋燾之父)
Directly stated · Book of Song 65, passage 96
Child of Father of Tuoba Tao (托跋燾之父)
father 父 · paternal line
Strongly inferred · Book of Song 65, passage 96
Child of Tuoba Si (拓跋嗣)
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Song 4, passage 35

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Career and standing

Palace Attendant 侍中
Appointed · With Zhu Xiuzhi (朱脩之)
Directly stated · Book of Song 76, passage 12
Wei ruler 魏主
AD 423 景平元年
Directly stated · Book of Song 4, passage 35

Places and affiliations

Northern Wei 索虜
Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Book of Song 96, passages 79, 91
Polity Northern Wei 北魏 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Book of Song 88, passage 8; Book of Wei 89, passage 241
Polity Northern Wei 魏 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Book of Song 4, passage 35

Events and relationships

Attacked Helian Ding at Changan
Military · Attacker · With Helian Ding (赫連定)
Directly stated · Book of Song 96, passage 79
Defeated Muyan
Military · Commander · With Muyan (慕延)
Directly stated · Book of Song 96, passage 91
Ransomed uncles head with hundred horses
Military · Ruler · With Yingwen Tele (英文特勒)
Directly stated · Book of Song 65, passage 96
Routed by Rouran; later annihilated Xue Yongzong's clan and attacked Gai Wu
AD 444 元嘉二十一年 · Military · Commander
Directly stated · Book of Song 88, passages 8, 10

Assessments and attributes

Item one hundred horses 馬百匹 · Relation Paid as ransom
Directly stated · Book of Song 65, passage 96

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History

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Book of Song, Chapter 4Volume 4 Annals 4: Emperor Shao · 1 passage

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是歲，魏主拓跋嗣薨，子燾立。 That year, the Wei ruler Tuoba Si died and his son Tao succeeded him.

Book of Song, Chapter 65Volume 65 Biographies 25: Ji Han, Liu Daochan, Du Ji, Shen Tian · 1 passage

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始隨到彥之北伐，與虜遇，聳夫手斬托跋燾叔父英文特勒首，燾以馬百匹贖之。 He had first followed Dao Yanzhi north; in battle he personally beheaded Tuoba Tao's uncle Yingwen Tele, and Tao ransomed the head with a hundred horses.

Book of Song, Chapter 76Volume 76 Biographies 36: Zhu Xiuzhi, Zong Que, Wang Xuanmo · 5 passages

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託跋燾嘉其守節，以為侍中，妻以宗室女。 Tuoba Tao admired his constancy, appointed him Palace Attendant, and married him to a woman of the imperial clan.

後鮮卑馮弘稱燕王，治黃龍城，託跋燾伐之，脩之與同沒人邢懷明並從。 Later the Xianbei Feng Hong declared himself King of Yan and ruled from Huanglongcheng. When Tuoba Tao marched against him, Xiuzhi followed with fellow captive Xing Huaiming.

虜主託跋燾率大眾號百萬，鞞鼓之聲，震動天地。 The northern ruler Tuoba Tao marched with a host said to reach a million men; drum and horn rolled across the sky.

及託跋燾軍至，乃奔退，麾下散亡略盡。 When Tuoba Tao's army came up, he broke and ran; his command dissolved almost entirely.

蕭斌將斬之，沈慶之固諫曰：「佛狸威震天下，控弦百萬，豈玄謨所能當。 Xiao Bin was ready to behead him, but Shen Qingzhi pleaded hard: "Boli's power shakes the empire—he commands a million bowmen. Xuanmo could never have stood against him.

Book of Song, Chapter 88Volume 88 Biographies 48: Xue Andou, Shen Wenxiu, Cui Daogu · 2 passages

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元嘉二十一年，索虜主拓跋燾擊芮芮大敗，安都與宗人薛永宗起義，永宗營汾曲，安都襲得弘農。 In the twenty-first year of Yuanjia, the Northern Wei emperor Tuoba Tao was routed in a campaign against the Rouran. Andou joined his kinsman Xue Yongzong in rebellion. Yongzong established his camp on the Fen River bend while Andou seized Hongnong by surprise.

燾自率眾擊永宗，滅其族，進擊蓋吳。 Tao led his army in person against Yongzong, annihilated his entire clan, and then marched on Gai Wu.

Book of Song, Chapter 96Volume 96 Biographies 56: Xianbei and Tuyuhun Peoples · 2 passages

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是歲，赫連定於長安為索虜拓跋燾所攻，擁秦戶口十餘萬西次罕幵，欲向涼州，慕璝距擊，大破之，生擒定。 That year Helian Ding at Chang'an was attacked by the Northern Wei ruler Tuoba Tao; Ding gathered more than a hundred thousand Qin households and moved west to encamp at Hanqian, intending to march on Liangzhou. Mugui intercepted him, inflicted a crushing defeat, and took Ding alive.

索虜拓跋燾遣軍擊慕延，大破之，慕延率部落西奔白蘭，攻破于闐國。 The Northern Wei ruler Tuoba Tao sent an army against Muyan and inflicted a crushing defeat; Muyan led his tribes west in flight to Bailan and overran the kingdom of Khotan.

Book of Wei, Chapter 89Volume 83b: Families of Imperial Consorts 2: Gao Zhao, Yu Jin, Hu Guozhen, Li Yanshi · 1 passage

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按事見卷九肅宗紀熙平元年八月乙巳，延和乃拓跋燾年號，遠在其前。 The event appears in the annals of Emperor Suzong, juan 9, on day yisi of the eighth month of the first year of Xiping. Yanhe is the reign title of Tuoba Tao, much earlier.