Overview
The translated histories identify Chen Daren as an editor, historian, official, and scholar. This record brings together 8 passages from 6 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Chen Daren | 陳大任 | Chén Dàrèn |
| Surname | Chen | 陳 | Chén |
| Surname | Chen | 陳 | |
| Surname | Chen | 陳 | Chen |
| Personal name | Chen Daren | 陳大任 | Chén Dàrèn |
| Personal name | Chen Daren | 陳大任 | Chen Daren |
| Personal | Chen Daren | 陳大任 | |
| Personal | Chen Daren | 陳大任 | Chen Daren |
| Given | Daren | 大任 | Dàrèn |
| Given | Daren | 大任 | |
| Given name | Daren | 大任 | Dàrèn |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · liaoshi:044:s0013, liaoshi:049:s0021
- Sex: male
Roles
- Editor
- Historian
- Official
- Scholar
- Writer
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 遼 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1125 · End: AD 1180Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:058:s0008
- Source Date: Text: 金世宗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1161 · End: AD 1189Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:065:s0226
- Source Date: Text: 金陳大任《遼禮儀志》 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1115 · End: AD 1234Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:049:s0021
- Source Date: Text: 陳大任修遼史時代 · Western Year: AD 1200Strongly inferred · liaoshi:116:s0014
- Source Date: Text: 陳大任紀 · Western Year: AD 1200Strongly inferred · liaoshi:044:s0013, liaoshi:044:s0017
- Source Date: Text: 陳大任辭乏精詳 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1115 · End: AD 1234Strongly inferred · liaoshi:117:s0026
Origins and identity
- Ethnicity: Han Chinese / 漢Strongly inferred · liaoshi:049:s0021
Career and standing
- Label: historian / 史家Strongly inferred · liaoshi:049:s0021
Places and affiliations
- Polity: Jin / 金 · Relation: servedExplicit · liaoshi:049:s0021
- Polity: Jin / 金 · Relation: servedStrongly inferred · liaoshi:058:s0008
Works and attributed material
- Work: Annals / 紀 · Relation: authorExplicit · liaoshi:044:s0013
- Work: earlier ceremonial monographs / 舊志 · Relation: authorExplicit · liaoshi:058:s0008
- Work: Liao historical text / 遼史文辭 · Relation: authorExplicit · liaoshi:117:s0026
- Work: Liao Ritual Treatise / 遼禮儀志 · Relation: authorExplicit · liaoshi:049:s0021
Events and relationships
- Kind: scholarly · Role: historian · Action: rejected-accountsExplicit · liaoshi:116:s0014
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: lacked precision and detail · Provenance: Mode: speaker · Speaker Person Id: Toqto'a (脫脫)Explicit · liaoshi:117:s0026
- Assessment: partisan readings appear under each entry · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · liaoshi:044:s0017
- Assessment: rejected surname-origin explanations conflicting with the annals · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Chen Daren (陳大任)Explicit · liaoshi:116:s0014
Source notes
- Historicity: historicalExplicit · liaoshi:044:s0013, liaoshi:065:s0226
References in the histories
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