Fang Bao (房豹) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Fang Bao as an administrator and official. This record brings together 9 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	Fang Bao	房豹	Fang Bao
Given	Bao	豹	Bao
Surname	Fang	房	Fang
Courtesy	Zhonggan	仲幹	Zhonggan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · beiqishu:046:s0199

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Death

Place: home / 家
Explicit · beiqishu:046:s0215

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 武平之末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 570 · End: AD 576
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:046:s0013
Source Date: Text: 齊滅 · Western Year: AD 577
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:046:s0214

Family

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Descendant of Fang Fashou (房法壽)
Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal · Subject Role: grandson · Object Role: grandfather
Child of Fang Yizong (房翼宗)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

Label: administrator of Leling / 樂陵太守 · Action: appointed
Explicit · beiqishu:046:s0210
Label: opening-office staff officer / 開府參軍 · Action: appointed
Explicit · beiqishu:046:s0203

Places and affiliations

Place: Qinghe / 清河
Explicit · beiqishu:046:s0199

Events and relationships

Kind: counsel · Role: advisor · Action: advised-against-water-rite · Other Person Id: Murong Shaozong (慕容紹宗)
Explicit · beiqishu:046:s0205, beiqishu:046:s0207

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: knew the subtle omen · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · beiqishu:046:s0209
Kind: physical-description · Statement: tall and broad-shouldered, fine voice and bearing
Explicit · beiqishu:046:s0202

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 46Volume 46 Biographies 38: Good Officials · 9 passages

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張華原宋世良弟世軌郎基孟業崔伯謙蘇瓊房豹路去病 Zhang Huayuan, Song Shiliang, his younger brother Shigui, Lang Ji, Meng Ye, Cui Boqian, Su Qiong, Fang Bao, and Lu Qubing

如房仲幹之屬，在武平之末能，卓爾不群，斯固彌可嘉也。 Men such as Fang Zhonggan, who at the end of Wuping still stood apart from the crowd, are all the more praiseworthy.

房豹，字仲幹，清河人。 Fang Bao, styled Zhonggan, came from Qinghe.

豹體貌魁岸，美音儀。 Bao was tall and broad-shouldered, with a handsome voice and bearing.

豹曰：「夫命也在天，豈人理所能延促？ Bao said, "Fate is Heaven's to give—what mortal scheme could hurry or delay it?

未幾而紹宗遇溺，時論以為知微。 Before long Murong Shaozong drowned; opinion at the time took it that Bao had read the omen.

豹階庭簡靜，圄囹空虛。 Under Bao the yamen stayed plain and quiet and the cells stood empty.

郡治瀕海，水味多鹹苦，豹命鑿一井，遂得甘泉，遐邇以為政化所致。 The seat lay on the coast, where the water ran salty and bitter. Bao had a well sunk and sweet water rose; people far and near credited his transforming rule.

豹罷歸後，井味復鹹。 Once Bao had left office and gone home, the well turned salty again.