Fan Bi (範弼) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Fan Bi as an official. This record brings together 4 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	Fan Bi	範弼	Fan Bi
Given name	Bi	弼	Bi
Personal name	Fan Bi	範弼	Fan Bi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:071:s0045

Roles

Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天成 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 930
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0049

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天成 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 930
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:071:s0045

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 71Volume 71 Book of Later Tang 47: Biographies 23: Ma Yu, Si Kongting, Cao Tingyin, Xiao Xifu, Yao Zongzhi, Jia Fu, Ma Gao, Luo Guan, Chun Yuyan, Zhang Ge, Xu Ji, Zhou Xuanbao · 4 passages

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時有孔目吏範弼者，為人剛愎，視廷隱蔑如也。 A chief clerk named Fan Bi, stubborn and overbearing, treated Tingyin with open contempt.

弼監軍廩，鬻空乏以取貲； Fan Bi oversaw the army granary and sold off empty storehouses for cash;

弼家人訴於執政，並下御史府劾之。 Bi's family appealed to the chief ministers, and both men were referred to the Censorate for prosecution.

弼雖伏法，廷隱以所奏不實，並流永州，續敕賜自盡，時人冤之。 Fan Bi was executed, but Tingyin was exiled to Yongzhou as well when his charges were ruled unfounded; a later edict ordered him to commit suicide, and contemporaries regarded it as a grave injustice.