Song, Liao, and Jin · Historian

Chen Daren 陳大任

Chén Dàrèn

Attested AD 1115 - AD 1234

Passages
8
Chapters
6
Histories
1

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

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Chen Daren 陳大任 Chén Dàrèn
Surname Chen Chén
Surname Chen
Surname Chen 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

Roles

  • Editor
  • Historian
  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Writer

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: · Western Interval: Start: AD 1125 · End: AD 1180
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:058:s0008
  • Source Date: Text: 金世宗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1161 · End: AD 1189
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:065:s0226
  • Source Date: Text: 金陳大任《遼禮儀志》 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1115 · End: AD 1234
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:049:s0021
  • Source Date: Text: 陳大任修遼史時代 · Western Year: AD 1200
    Strongly inferred · liaoshi:116:s0014
  • Source Date: Text: 陳大任紀 · Western Year: AD 1200
    Strongly inferred · liaoshi:044:s0013, liaoshi:044:s0017
  • Source Date: Text: 陳大任辭乏精詳 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1115 · End: AD 1234
    Strongly inferred · liaoshi:117:s0026

Origins and identity

Career and standing

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

  • Work: Annals / 紀 · Relation: author
    Explicit · liaoshi:044:s0013
  • Work: earlier ceremonial monographs / 舊志 · Relation: author
    Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0008
  • Work: Liao historical text / 遼史文辭 · Relation: author
    Explicit · liaoshi:117:s0026
  • Work: Liao Ritual Treatise / 遼禮儀志 · Relation: author
    Explicit · liaoshi:049:s0021

Events and relationships

  • Kind: scholarly · Role: historian · Action: rejected-accounts
    Explicit · 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-judgment
    Explicit · 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

References in the histories

Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.

History of Liao, Chapter 44Volume 44 Treatises 14: Celestial Phenomena 3 · 2 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 49Volume 49 Treatises 19: Rites 1 · 2 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 58Volume 58 Treatises 28: Ceremonial Guards 4 · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 65Volume 65 Tables 3: Princesses · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 116Volume 116: Explanation of State Language · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 117Appendix: History of the Liao Table · 1 passage