Five Dynasties · Later Zhou judicial official sentenced to death

Chen Wo 陳渥

Attested AD 955

Passages
2
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Chen Wo as an official. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Chen Wo 陳渥 Chen Wo
Alternate Chen Wo 陳渥 Chen Wo

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Uncertain
Sex
Uncertain

Roles

  • Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 顯德二年 · Western Year: AD 955
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:115:s0101

Career and standing

  • Description: vice director in the Ministry of Punishments / 刑部員外郎 · Western Year: AD 955
  • Description: sentenced to death over an inaccurate land inspection report / 因檢民田失實賜死 · Western Year: AD 955

Assessments and attributes

  • Description: remembered as austere, principled, and excessively punished for a minor fault / 清苦有守而以微累極刑,時論惜之 · Western Year: AD 955 · Provenance: Mode: narrator

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 115Volume 115 Book of Later Zhou 17: Shizong Annals 2 · 2 passages