Fan Bonian (范柏年) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Fan Bonian as an administrator, general, and official. This record brings together 8 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 Bonian	范柏年	Fan Bonian
Personal name	Bonian	柏年
Personal name	Fan Bonian	范柏年

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · nanqishu:021:s0020

Roles

Administrator
General
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 升明三年 · Western Year: AD 479
Explicit · nanqishu:021:s0024

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 升明三年 · Western Year: AD 479
Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:021:s0016, nanqishu:021:s0024
Source Date: Text: 宋泰始中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 465 · End: AD 471
Explicit · nanqishu:021:s0026

Origins and identity

Label: local magnate clan / 土豪
Explicit · nanqishu:021:s0025

Career and standing

Label: administrator of Jinshou / 晉壽太守 · Action: appointed
Explicit · nanqishu:021:s0027
Label: gentleman of the grain bureaus / 倉部郎 · Action: held
Explicit · nanqishu:021:s0026
Label: inspector of Liang / 梁州刺史 · Action: held
Explicit · nanqishu:021:s0020

Places and affiliations

Place: Zitong / 梓潼
Explicit · nanqishu:021:s0025
Place: Huayang / 華陽 · Relation: resided-at
Explicit · nanqishu:021:s0025

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Su Daoshi (蘇道熾)
Explicit · nanqishu:021:s0020
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Yang Cheng (楊城)
Explicit · nanqishu:021:s0020
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: induced-surrender · Other Person Id: Li Wunu (李烏奴)
Explicit · nanqishu:021:s0020
Kind: political · Role: executed · Action: seized-and-executed · Other Person Id: Crown Prince Wenhui (文惠太子) · Place: Xiangyang / 襄陽
Explicit · nanqishu:021:s0024

References in the histories

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Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 21Volume 21 Biographies 2: Crown Prince Wenhui · 8 passages

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先是，梁州刺史范柏年誘降晉壽亡命李烏奴，討平氐賊楊城、蘇道熾等，頗著威名。 Earlier Fan Bonian, inspector of Liang, had won over Li Wunu, a Jinshou outlaw, and put down the Di chiefs Yang Cheng and Su Daoshi, until his name carried weight.

沈攸之事起，柏年遣將陰廣宗領軍出魏興聲援京師，而候望形勢。 When Shen Youzhi rose, Bonian sent Yin Guangzong out of Weixing with an army, ostensibly to aid the capital while he read the wind.

烏奴勸柏年據漢中不受命，柏年計未決，玄邈已至，柏年遲回魏興不肯下。 Li Wunu urged Bonian to seize Hanzhong and defy the summons. Bonian wavered; Xuanmiao was already on the road, yet Bonian hung back at Weixing and would not descend.

太子慮其爲變，乃遣說柏年，許啓爲府長史，柏年乃進襄陽，因執誅之。 The prince, fearing a mutiny, sent envoys promising to name Bonian chief steward of his staff if he came in. Bonian marched to Xiangyang—and was seized and put to death.

柏年，梓潼人，徙居華陽，世爲土豪，知名州里。 Bonian came from Zitong and had settled in Huayang; for generations his clan had been great landlords, famed in the province.

宋泰始中，氐寇斷晉壽道，柏年以倉部郎假節領數百人慰勞通路，自益州道報命。 In Song's Taishi era Di raiders severed the Jinshou road. Bonian, then gentleman of the grain bureaus, took the staff and led several hundred men to reopen the route and hearten the garrisons, then returned by the Yizhou road to report.

柏年強立，善言事，以應對爲宋明帝所知。 Bonian was imposing in person and quick in counsel; Emperor Ming of Song prized his repartee.

旣被誅，巴西太守柳弘稱啓太祖，敕答曰：「柏年幸可不爾，爲之恨恨！」 After the execution Liu Hong of Baxi memorialized Xiao Daocheng. The reply read, "Bonian might have been spared this—I grieve for it!"