Xuanwu Gate Incident
The succession conflict between Li Shimin, Crown Prince Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji erupted at Xuanwu Gate, reshaping early Tang politics and generations of narratives about imperial legitimacy.
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Textual evidence
Every quotation below is matched verbatim against the local public-domain corpus during the build. It supports the event outline; it does not exhaust every interpretation.
“九年，皇太子建成、齐王元吉谋害太宗。”