Cao Teng 曹騰

The Annals of Emperor Wu in Records of Wei 1 opens by stating that Taizu, Emperor Wu, was a man of Qiao County in the state of Pei and a descendant of Cao Can, Chancellor of State of the Han, and then records that in the time of Emperor Huan, Cao Teng became Regular Palace Attendant and Grand Prolonger and was enfeoffed as Marquis of Feiting. His adopted son Cao Song succeeded him and rose in office to Grand Commandant, but no one could ascertain the full story of Cao Song's birth; Cao Song fathered Taizu. Chen Shou's main text does not record Cao Teng's courtesy name, origins, or dates of birth and death. Records, Wei 1 §1

In the 6th month of summer in the 1st year of Jian'an (196), the Son of Heaven transferred Taizu to General Who Guards the East and enfeoffed him as Marquis of Feiting. The biography of Dong Zhao records that at this time Yang Feng and others jointly memorialized to make Taizu General Who Guards the East and to have him inherit his father's title of Marquis of Feiting. Records, Wei 1 §36 · 38Records, Wei 14 §52

According to the account of Chen Lin in Records of Wei 21, Chen Lin fled the disorder to Ji Province, where he took charge of documents under Yuan Shao, and when the Yuan family was defeated he submitted to Taizu. Taizu told him that when he had written a proclamation for Benchu (Yuan Shao) in the past, he need only have listed Taizu's own crimes, since even the hatred of evil should stop at the man himself; why then had he reached up as far as Taizu's father and grandfather? When Chen Lin apologized, Taizu valued his talent and did not hold it against him. Chen Shou's main text does not include the text of that proclamation. Records, Wei 21 §14–15

On the wushen day of the 6th month in the 3rd year of Taihe (229), Emperor Ming posthumously honored his great-great-grandfather the Grand Prolonger as Emperor Gao and his wife, Lady Wu, as Empress Gao. When the ancestral temple at Luoyang was finally completed in the 11th month of that year, he sent the Minister of Ceremonies Han Ji, bearing the credentials, to bring the spirit tablets of Emperor Gao, Emperor Tai, Emperor Wu and Emperor Wen from the temple at Ye; they arrived on the jichou day of the 12th month, and the tablets were installed in the temple. Records, Wei 3 §11 · 14–15

According to the biography of Liu Ye in Records of Wei 14, after Emperor Ming took the throne he issued an edict saying that the imperial house of Wei had made its start with Emperor Gao and Emperor Tai and that its achievements had flourished under Emperor Wu and Emperor Wen; noting that Emperor Gao's father, the Gentleman Recluse, had quietly cultivated virtue and modesty, yet not even his title had been recorded, he had the ministers and those below them deliberate on a title and posthumous name. Liu Ye argued that, compared above with the house of Zhou, the rise of the great Wei began with Emperor Gao, and that under the Han the rite of posthumous naming had not extended to the grandfather, so the posthumous honors should stop at Emperor Gao. The Master of Writing Wei Zhen agreed with Liu Ye, and this was carried out. Records, Wei 14 §103–107