Sui and Tang · Ruler

Emperor Wenzong 文宗

Wenzong

Attested AD 827 - AD 828

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Emperor Wenzong was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 828 大和二年
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 178, passage 7
AD 827 文宗即位
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 178, passage 5

Career and standing

Suffered
Restrained and humiliated by eunuchs
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 178, passage 6
Acceded
AD 827 文宗即位
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 178, passage 5

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 178, passages 5, 7

Works and attributed material

Examination question · Author · Direct quotation · Mode quotation Speaker Emperor Wenzong (文宗)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 178, passages 7-36

Events and relationships

Sought to wash away Yuanhe humiliation and cut down factional networks
AD 827 文宗即位 · Political · Ruler
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 178, passage 5
Summoned scholars and set policy question
AD 828 大和二年 · Examination · Examiner
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 178, passage 7
AD 828 大和二年
Relation Examiner of · Person Liu Fen (劉蕡)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 178, passages 7, 37

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 178Volume 178 Biographies 103: Liu Fen · 5 passages

文宗即位，思洗元和宿恥，將翦落支黨。 When Emperor Wenzong came to the throne, he meant to wash away the old humiliation of the Yuanhe years and to cut down their factional networks.

方宦人握兵，橫制海內，號曰「北司」，兇醜朋挻，外脅群臣，內掣侮天子，蕡常痛疾。 Meanwhile the eunuchs held the armies and lorded it over the realm under the name "Northern Office"; brutal and hideous, they swarmed in factions, outwardly intimidating the officials and inwardly restraining and humiliating the Son of Heaven — a wrong Fen felt as a constant wound.

大和二年，舉賢良方正能直言極諫，帝引諸儒百餘人於廷，策曰： In the second year of Taihe he was nominated for the Worthy and Upright examination with license to speak frankly and remonstrate without reserve; the Emperor called more than a hundred scholars to court and set this policy question:

況逢陛下詢求過闕，咨訪嘉謀，制詔中外，舉直言極諫。 How much more now, when Your Majesty inquires after faults and oversights, seeks excellent counsel, issues edicts throughout the realm, and calls for frank speech and utmost remonstrance.

至於上所忌，時所禁，權幸所諱惡，有司所與奪，臣愚不識，伏惟陛下少加優容，不使聖時有讜言受戮者，天下之幸也。 As for what the sovereign taboos, what the age forbids, what the powerful and favored detest, what the offices control — your foolish subject cannot know them all; I beg Your Majesty to show a little gracious tolerance, that in this sage age no one who speaks forthrightly should die for it — that would be the fortune of the realm.