Sui and Tang · Official

Dong Wenguang 董文廣

Attested AD 850 - AD 907

Passages
2
Chapters
2
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Dong Wenguang as an administrator and official. This record brings together 2 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Dong Wenguang 董文廣 Dong Wenguang
Surname Dong
Surname Dong Dǒng
Personal name Wenguang 文廣 Wenguang
Personal name Wenguang 文廣 Wénguǎng

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: · Western Interval: Start: AD 850 · End: AD 907
    Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:019:s0034
  • Source Date: Text: 唐時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 860 · End: AD 907
    Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:121:s0066

Family

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  • Ancestor of Virtuous Consort Dong (德妃董氏)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2
  • Parent of Dong Guangsi (董光嗣)
    Kinship Term: father of Guangsi / 祖/父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
    Parentage: biological

Career and standing

  • Label: Recorder of Shenzhou / 深州錄事參軍 · Action: held
  • Label: recording secretary of Shen Prefecture / 深州錄事參軍 · Action: held

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 121Volume 121 Book of Later Zhou 23: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 19Volume 19: Taizu of Later Zhou's Family · 1 passage