An Ruzi
| An Ruzi An trẻ con | |||||
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| Ruler ofQi | |||||
| Reign | 489 BC | ||||
| Predecessor | Duke Jing of Qi | ||||
| Successor | Duke Dao of Qi | ||||
| Died | 489 BC | ||||
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| House | House of Jiang | ||||
| Father | Duke Jing of Qi | ||||
| Mother | Yu Si | ||||
An Ruzi(Chinese:An trẻ con;pinyin:Ān Rúzǐ;died 489 BC), also calledYan Ruzi(Chinese:Yến trẻ con;pinyin:Yàn Rúzǐ), was for a few months in 489 BC ruler of theState of Qi,a major power during theSpring and Autumn periodof ancient China. His personal name wasLü Tu( Lữ đồ ),ancestral nameJiang (Khương), and An Ruzi was hisposthumous title,ruzimeaning "little boy". Due to his short reign and young age he was not given the normal ducal title. He was known asPrince Tubefore ascending the throne.[1][2]
Designation as Crown Prince
[edit]Prince Tu was the youngest son ofDuke Jing of Qi,and his mother was Duke Jing's favourite concubine Yu Si,[3]who was from the minor state of Chunyu.[2]In the summer of 490 BC, the 58th year of Duke Jing's reign, the crown prince of Qi died. Although Duke Jing had at least five other grown sons, he decided to make Prince Tu the new crown prince. Because Prince Tu was a young boy and his mother was of a lowly status, Duke Jing ordered the ministers Guo Xia of the Guo clan and Gao Zhang of the Gao clan to support Prince Tu and exile the other princes to the remote city of Lai.[1][2]
Reign
[edit]Duke Jing died soon afterward in the autumn of 490 BC. Guo and Gao installed Prince Tu on the throne, and the other princes escaped to the nearby states ofWeyandLu.However, the next year the Tian and Bao clans, led by Tian Qi and Bao Mu, staged acoup d'etatand defeated the Gao and Guo clans. Tian Qi brought back Prince Yangsheng, an older half-brother of Prince Tu, from Lu and installed him on the throne, to be known asDuke Dao of Qi.Bao Mu was reluctant to depose Prince Tu but dared not oppose Tian. Duke Dao soon killed Prince Tu, who is posthumously known as An Ruzi. The Tian clan would from then on increasingly dominate the power of Qi, eventually replacing the House of Jiang as rulers of Qi in 386 BC.[1][2]
Ancestry
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| Duke Qing of Qi(d. 582 BC) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Duke Jing of Qi(d. 490 BC) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Shusun Qiaoru | |||||||||||||||||||
| Mu Meng Ji ofLu | |||||||||||||||||||
| An Ruzi (d. 489 BC) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Yu Si of Chunyu | |||||||||||||||||||
References
[edit]- ^abcSima Qian.Tề thái công thế gia[House of Duke Tai of Qi].Records of the Grand Historian(in Chinese). Guoxue.Retrieved14 May2012.
- ^abcdHan Zhaoqi ( Hàn triệu kỳ ) (2010). "House of Duke Tai of Qi".Shiji( sử ký )(in Chinese). Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company. pp. 2584–2588.ISBN978-7-101-07272-3.
- ^TheShijiincorrectly gives her name as Rui Ji and Rui Zi.