Yuan · Administrator and Official

Bu Tianzhang 卜天璋

Died AD 1331

Passages
25
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Bu Tianzhang as an administrator, judge, official, and scholar. This record brings together 25 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

PeriodYuan

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Bu Tianzhang 卜天璋 Bu Tianzhang
Courtesy Junzhang 君璋 Junzhang
Posthumous Zhengxian 正獻 Zhengxian

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Uncertain

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Judge
  • Official
  • Scholar

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至順二年 · Western Year: AD 1331
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0171

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 大德五年 · Western Year: AD 1301
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0125
  • Source Date: Text: 大德四年 · Western Year: AD 1300
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0123
  • Source Date: Text: 天歷二年 · Western Year: AD 1329
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0161
  • Source Date: Text: 武宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1307 · End: AD 1311
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0129
  • Source Date: Text: 皇慶初 · Western Year: c. AD 1312
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0144
  • Source Date: Text: 至元中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1264 · End: AD 1294
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0114
  • Source Date: Text: 至順二年 · Western Year: AD 1331
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0171

Family

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  • Child of Bu Shichang (卜世昌)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

  • Label: director assisting the Privy Council headquarters / 都事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大德五年 · Western Year: AD 1301
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0125
  • Label: section chief of the Ministry of Works / 工部主事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大德四年 · Western Year: AD 1300
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0123
  • Label: prefect of Guide / 歸德知府 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 皇慶初 · Western Year: c. AD 1312
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0144
  • Label: clerk of the Central Censorate / 中台掾 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0118
  • Label: surveillance clerk / 憲史 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0117
  • Label: clerk of the Nanjing prefecture office / 南京府史 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1264 · End: AD 1294
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0114
  • Label: Minister of Rites / 禮部尚書 · Action: posthumously granted
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0172
  • Label: chief controller and clerk of the Central Secretariat / 掾中書、提控 · Action: promoted · Appointing Person Id: Prince of Shunde (順德王)
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0122
  • Label: Surveillance Commissioner of Guangdong / 廣東廉訪使 · Action: promoted
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0157
  • Label: Vice Surveillance Commissioner of Zhexi Circuit / 浙西道廉訪副使 · Action: promoted
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0146
  • Label: Surveillance Commissioner of Shannan / 山南廉訪使 · Action: reappointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天歷二年 · Western Year: AD 1329
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0161
  • Label: director of the Imperial Clan Court / 宗正府郎中 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1307 · End: AD 1311
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0129
  • Label: administrator of Raozhou Circuit / 饒州路總管 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0146
  • Label: director of the Ministry of Justice / 刑部郎中 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0130
  • Title: Marquis of Henan Commandery / 河南郡侯 · Action: posthumously granted
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0172
  • Label: Grand Master for Glorious Instruction / 奉訓大夫 · Action: granted for escort service
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0127
  • Label: Grand Master for Appealing to the Throne / 通議大夫 · Action: posthumously granted
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0172
  • Label: Senior Commander of Chariots / 上輕車都尉 · Action: posthumously granted
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0172
  • Status: withdrew from office · Action: entered
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0169
  • Status: retirement requested · Action: requested
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0160
  • Action: captured and dismembered more than one hundred bandits as a public warning
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0145
  • Action: detained in the inner court after slander by the corrupt attendant censor · Authority Person Id: Corrupt Attendant Censor (貪財侍御史)
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0118
  • Action: pardoned and released
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0121
  • Action: withstood an official's attempt to trap him under severe law
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0148, yuanshi:191:s0149

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: argued policy forcefully despite other ministers' anger · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0122
  • Assessment: did not accept bribes · Provenance: Mode: named-person-judgment · Source Person Id: Renzong (仁宗)
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0135
  • Assessment: fearless resolve in handling affairs · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0153
  • Assessment: foremost in administrative conduct · Provenance: Mode: public-reputation
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0156
  • Assessment: people attributed Lingnan's first ice to his transforming governance · Provenance: Mode: public-reputation
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0159
  • Assessment: remained at ease despite having no household grain stores · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0170
  • Kind: character-and-learning · Statement: quick-witted, upright, read history, and understood broad patterns of success and failure
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0113
  • Item: brocade robes, saddle and bridle, bow and sword / 錦衣、鞍轡、弓刀 · Relation: bestowed
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0126
  • Item: seal of the Central Secretariat Ministry of Justice / 中書刑部印章 · Relation: entrusted
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0138, yuanshi:191:s0139, yuanshi:191:s0140
  • Item: surplus salary / 餘祿 · Relation: gave to clansmen and kinsmen
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0170
  • Item: wine and three sets of brocade robes / 酒、錦衣三襲 · Relation: bestowed
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0141

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 191Volume 191 Biographies 78: Virtuous Officials 1 · 25 passages
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後為中台掾，有侍御史倚勢貪財，御史發其贓，天璋主文牘，未及奏，顧為所譖，俱拘內廷，御史對食悲哽，天璋問故，御史曰：「吾老，唯一女，心憐之，聞吾係，不食數日矣，是以悲耳。」 Later he served as a clerk of the Central Censorate. An attendant censor had been relying on his position to embezzle funds, and a censor exposed his corruption. Tianzhang was in charge of the documents and had not yet submitted the report when the accused slandered him; both were detained in the inner court. The censor wept bitterly over his meal. Tianzhang asked why, and the censor said: "I am old and have only one daughter whom I cherish. Hearing that I am detained, she has not eaten for days—that is why I grieve."
丞相順德王當國，擢掾中書，為提控，事有可否，必力辯，他相怒，天璋言不置，王竟從其議，且曰：「掾能如是，吾復何憂！」 When the Prince of Shunde served as chancellor, Tianzhang was promoted to clerk of the Central Secretariat as chief controller. On matters of approval or disapproval he always argued forcefully. Other ministers were angered, but Tianzhang did not cease speaking, and the prince ultimately followed his counsel, saying: "If a clerk can be like this, what have I to worry about!"