Qin and Han · Named Individual

Fan Zizhao 樊子昭

Attested AD 180 - AD 220

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Fan Zizhao was a Named Individual.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 180 to AD 220 Compared to Quan Cong; discussed by Xu Shao
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Three Kingdoms 37, passage 32

Places and affiliations

At Runan 汝南
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 37, passage 32

References in the histories

Records of the Three Kingdoms, Chapter 37Volume 37: Book of Shu 7: Biographies of Pang Tong and Fa Zheng · 4 passages

謂全琮曰：「卿好施慕名，有似汝南樊子昭。 To Quan Cong he said, “You are generous and crave a good name—you remind me of Fan Zizhao of Runan.

〈蔣濟《萬機論》雲許子將褒貶不平，以拔樊子昭而抑許文休。〈Jiang Ji’s Treatise on Myriad Affairs notes that Xu Shao’s praises and censures were skewed—he boosted Fan Zizhao and played down Xu Wenxiu.

劉曄曰：「子昭拔自賈豎，年至耳順，退能守靜，進能不苟。」 Liu Ye objected that Zizhao rose from a merchant family; at sixty he could still withdraw in calm or advance without bending principle.

濟答曰：「子昭誠自長幼完潔，然觀其臿齒牙，樹頰胲，吐脣吻，自非文休敵也。」 Ji answered that Zizhao is modest and steady from youth to age, but look at those buck teeth, those jowls, that mouth—in looks he cannot rival Xu Wenxiu.