Duan Zhi (段直) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Duan Zhi as an administrator and military officer. This record brings together 5 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Duan Zhi	段直	Duàn Zhí
Surname	Duan	段	Duàn
Courtesy	Zhengqing	正卿	Zhèngqīng
Given	Zhi	直	Zhí

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:192:s0017

Roles

Administrator
Military Officer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died-before-assuming-office
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0030

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 至元十一年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 11 · Western Year: AD 1274
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0018, yuanshi:192:s0019, yuanshi:192:s0020

Career and standing

Label: chief administrator of Ze Prefecture / 澤州長官 · Action: appointed
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0020
Label: right supervising general of the Lu Prefecture Marshal's headquarters / 潞州元帥府右監軍 · Action: appointed
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0019
Label: superintendent of the prefectural schools / 提舉本州學校事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0030

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: yuan · Relation: served
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0019, yuanshi:192:s0020
Place: Jincheng in Ze Prefecture / 澤州晉城
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0017

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: local-leader · Action: fortified-self-defense · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元十一年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 11 · Western Year: AD 1274
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0018
Kind: civic · Role: administrator · Action: restored-confucius-temple-founded-school
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0027, yuanshi:192:s0028
Kind: military · Role: submitter · Action: submitted-to-Yuan · Other Person Id: Emperor Shizu (世祖)
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0019
Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Li Junmin (李俊民)
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0027

Assessments and attributes

Item: golden tally / 金符 · Relation: bestowed
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0020

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 192Volume 192 Biographies 79: Virtuous Officials 2 · 5 passages

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段直，字正卿，澤州晉城人。 Duan Zhi, courtesy name Zhengqing, was a native of Jincheng in Ze Prefecture.

至元十一年，河北、河東、山東盜賊充斥，直聚其鄉黨族屬，結壘自保。 In the eleventh year of Zhiyuan (1274), bandits overran Hebei, Hedong, and Shandong; Zhi rallied his neighbors and clansmen, built a fortified camp, and held out for their safety.

世祖命大將略地晉城，直以其眾歸之，幕府承製，署直潞州元帥府右監軍。 When Kublai sent a great general to subdue the Jincheng region, Zhi brought his followers over to the Yuan side; the field headquarters, acting by imperial commission, appointed him right supervising general of the Lu Prefecture Marshal's headquarters.

其後論功行賞，分土世守，命直佩金符，為澤州長官。 Later, when merits were rewarded with hereditary fiefs, he was granted a golden tally and appointed chief administrator of Ze Prefecture.

澤民多避兵未還者，直命籍其田廬於親戚鄰人之戶，且約曰：「俟業主至，當析而歸之。」 Many in Ze Prefecture had fled the wars and not yet come home; Zhi had their fields and houses registered under the care of relatives and neighbors, with the pledge: "When the owners return, everything shall be divided and given back."