Fang Gao (房暠) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Fang Gao as an official and statesman. This record brings together 8 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Fang Gao	房暠	Fang Gao
Surname	Fang	房	Fang
Personal name	Fang Gao	房暠	Fang Gao
Personal name	Fang Hao	房暠	Fang Hao
Given	Gao	暠	Gao

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:096:s0201, xinwudaishi:007:s0078
Value: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0044

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Place: Luoyang / 洛陽 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開運元年春 · Western Year: AD 944
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 九月己酉 · Western Year: AD 935
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:007:s0078
Source Date: Text: 天成中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 930
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Source Date: Text: 末帝登極 · Western Interval: Start: AD 934 · End: AD 936
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Source Date: Text: 紀年語境（天福1年） · Western Year: AD 936
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Source Date: Text: 開運元年春 · Western Year: AD 944
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:096:s0208

Career and standing

Label: Grand general of the Left Valiant Guards / 左驍衛大將軍 · Action: appointed
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Label: Confidential commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: held
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Action: pardoned · Authority Person Id: Gaozu of Jin (晉高祖)
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Places and affiliations

Place: Chang'an in Jingzhao / 京兆長安
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Events and relationships

Relation: client-of · Person Id: Duke Cui (崔魏公)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: avoided responsibility; slept in councils · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 96Volume 96 Book of Later Jin 22: Biographies 11: Kong Chongbi, Chen Baoji, Wang Yu, Zhang Jizuo, Zhen Ruan, Hu Rao, Liu Suiqing, Fang Gao, Meng Chenghui, Liu Jixun, Zheng Shouyi, Cheng Xun, Li Yu, Zheng Xuansu, Ma Zhongji, Chen Xuan · 6 passages

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房暠，京兆長安人也。 Fang Gao was a native of Chang'an in Jingzhao.

天成中，唐末帝出鎮河中，暠於路左迎謁，求事軍門，末帝愛之，使治賓客。 During Tiancheng, when the Last Emperor of Tang went out to govern Hezhong, Gao met him at the roadside and sought service at headquarters. The Last Emperor took a liking to him and put him in charge of guests.

及末帝登極，歷南北院宣徽使，尋與趙延壽同為樞密使。 When the Last Emperor ascended the throne, Gao served successively as commissioner of the southern and northern palace secretariat bureaus, and soon shared the post of confidential commissioner with Zhao Yanshou.

時薛文遇、劉延朗之徒居中用事，暠雖處密地，其聽用之言，十不得三四，但隨勢可否，不為事先。 At that time Xue Wenyü, Liu Yanlang, and their like held sway at court. Though Gao sat in the innermost councils, only three or four of every ten words he spoke were heeded; he merely assented or demurred as the tide flowed, never taking the lead.

每朝廷有大事，暠與端明學士等環坐會議，多於眾中俯首而睡，其避事也如此。 Whenever the court faced a great matter, Gao would sit in conference with the academicians of the Hall of Bright Clarity and the like, and often slept with bowed head among the assembly—such was his way of avoiding responsibility.

高祖即位，以暠濡足閏朝，不專與奪，故特恩原之，命為左驍衛大將軍，留西京。 When Gaozu took the throne, since Gao had served under two dynasties and had not monopolized decisions on life and death, he was specially shown grace and pardoned, appointed grand general of the Left Valiant Guards, and kept at the western capital.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 7Volume 7 Later Tang Annals 4: Deposed Emperors · 1 passage

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九月己酉，刑部尚書房暠為樞密使。 On jiyou of the ninth month Fang Gao, minister of punishments, became Bureau Military Affairs commissioner.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 8Volume 8 Later Jin Annals 1: Gaozu · 1 passage

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甲申，大赦，殺張延朗、劉延朗，赦房暠。 On jiashen came a general amnesty. Zhang Yanlang and Liu Yanlang were put to death; Fang Hao was spared.