Emperor Gao is one of the titles, the first emperor in Chinese history to be called Emperor Gao is Liu Bang, so Liu Bang uses the title of Emperor Gao of Han, if you use the temple number to call Han Taizu, in fact, Han Gaozu is a wrong title, but later generations have been accustomed to calling Han Gaozu for more than two thousand years, and they have not changed it.
Influenced by Liu Bang's establishment of the Han Dynasty and the title of Emperor Gao, successive dynasties have taken Emperor Gao as the exclusive title of the founding emperor, if an emperor's title is GaoDi, then the emperor must be the founding emperor, but the founding emperor does not necessarily get the title of Emperor Gao. In fact, throughout Chinese history, there have been very few emperors who have received the title of Emperor Gao, only a few.
There is also a situation of obtaining the title of Emperor Gao, that is, he did not become an emperor before his death, and after his death, he was posthumously honored as emperor by his descendants and received the title of Emperor Gao, but this situation of posthumous posthumous honor is usually not discussed.
As mentioned earlier, there are many founding emperors in China, but most of the founding emperors are not GaoDi, and only a few are Gaodi. In Chinese history, the most famous Emperor Gao was the Han Emperor Liu Bang and the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.
The Southern and Northern Dynasties were one of the great divisions in Chinese history, and the dynasties changed frequently, so there were many founding emperors, but only the only one who received the title of Gao Emperor was Xiao Daocheng, the Emperor of Qi Gao.
Xiao Daocheng's origin is very simple, his direct ancestors are Xiao He, the founding hero of the Han Dynasty, according to the generation, he is Xiao He's 24th grandson. Xiao Daocheng's grandparents and fathers were all famous generals of the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty here was Liu Song during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and he was taught by his grandparents and fathers since he was a child, Wen Tao was skilled in martial arts, and when he grew up, he also became a General of the Song Dynasty.
The Song Dynasty was under the rule of Emperor Liu Yu of Song and Liu Yilong, emperor of Song, and its national strength was relatively strong, especially during the reign of Emperor Wen of Song, who created the rule of Yuan Jia, when the Song Dynasty had many loyal generals, Emperor Wen of Song decided to retake the Central Plains in the Northern Expedition, and among the generals sent to the Northern Expedition was Xiao Daocheng.
In Emperor Wen of Song's Northern Expedition, Xiao Daocheng lived up to expectations and severely damaged the Wei Dynasty, which confronted the Song Dynasty, where the Wei Dynasty was northern Wei, but unfortunately the Northern Expedition did not achieve the goal of recovering the Central Plains, but Xiao Daocheng was still appreciated and reused by Emperor Wen of Song, and his power and status in the imperial court continued to rise.
There seems to be a strange phenomenon during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, that is, whether it is the Southern Dynasty or the Northern Dynasty, the emperor did not reign for a long time, and mutinies and coups d'état occurred frequently in order to compete for the throne, and the number of Emperors was much more than the number of Ming Emperors, and the Song Dynasty was no exception. The Song emperors behind Emperor Wen of Song were almost all Emperor Xia, and Xiao Daocheng was almost killed by Liu Yu, the deposed emperor of the Song Dynasty, because of his high prestige.
Xiao Daocheng's great difficulty in not dying made him firm in his determination to replace the Song Dynasty. In 477, Xiao Daocheng, with the support of his heart, launched a mutiny, killing the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, deposing the emperor, supporting the Song Shun Emperor Liu Zhun as a puppet emperor, and eliminating many political enemies, from then on Xiao Daocheng became the de facto ruler of the Song Dynasty.
In 479 AD, the 52-year-old Xiao Daocheng believed that the time was ripe, deposed and killed Emperor Shun of Song, and then ascended the throne as emperor, establishing the Qi Dynasty to replace the Song Dynasty.
During the reign of Emperor Qi Gao, Wenzhi was prominent in martial arts and had a generous and benevolent personality, and he was a Ming Emperor during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and he was highly valued by later generations.
In 482, Emperor Gao of Qi died at the age of 55, with the temple name Taizu and emperor Gao.