Guo Wei
Later Zhou · Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms · 1st ruler
後周太祖 Hòu Zhōu Tàizǔ郭威 Guō Wēi
Wade–Giles: Hou Chou T'ai-tsu · Kuo Wei
Reigned 951–954 (3 years)
Reigned 3 years (951–954). Died at 51 (East Asian reckoning) of natural causes. 1st ruler of Later Zhou.
Facts
- Reign
- 13 February 951 – 22 February 954 (1st ruler of Later Zhou)
- Length of reign
- 3 years
- Born
- 10 September 904
- Died
- 22 February 954
- Age at accession
- 48
- Age at death
- 51
- Cause of death
- Natural causesNatural death or illness (including old age)
- Path to the throne
- Abdication from another dynastyReceived the throne from an emperor of another family or regime in a change of dynasty led by the new emperor (e.g. Cao Pi, Yang Jian, Zhao Kuangyin)
- Predecessor
- Liu Chengyou
- Successor
- Chai Rong
- Era names
- 廣順 Guǎngshùn (proclaimed 951)
- 顯德 Xiǎndé (proclaimed 954)
Ages are given in East Asian reckoning (sui): a person is one year old at birth and gains a year at each New Year, so the figure is one or two years higher than the Western age.
During the reign
Number of times each event is recorded in the official histories. How each item is counted
- Era name changes
- 2
- General amnesties
- 2
- Empresses installed
- 0
- Crown princes deposed
- 0
- Personal campaigns
- 1
- Rebellions suppressed
- 2
- Rebellions faced
- 2
- Capital relocations
- 0
Emperors of Later Zhou
- 1stGuo Wei後周太祖 Hòu Zhōu Tàizǔ郭威 Guō Wēi951–954 · 3 years · Natural causes, age 51951–9543 yearsNatural causes, age 51
- 2ndChai Rong後周世宗 Hòu Zhōu Shìzōng柴榮 Chái Róng954–959 · 5 years · Natural causes, age 39954–9595 yearsNatural causes, age 39
- 3rdEmperor Gong of Later Zhou後周恭帝 Hòu Zhōu Gōngdì柴宗訓 Chái Zōngxùn959–960 · 190 days · Unknown, age 21959–960190 daysUnknown, age 21