Sui and Tang · Official and Statesman

Fang Xuanling 房玄齡

Fáng Xuánlíng

Attested AD 627 - AD 649

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Fang Xuanling was an official and Statesman.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 627 to AD 649 太宗世
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passages 125, 134

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passages 125, 134

Works and attributed material

Code, Ordinances, Administrative Rules, and Formulas 律、令、格、式
Relation Reviser
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 134
Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Taizong (太宗)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 125

Events and relationships

Dissuaded emperor from self accusation
Political · Remonstrator · With Taizong (太宗)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passages 125-126
Revised statutes unchanged through Taizong reign
Legal reform · Reviser · With Taizong (太宗)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 134

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 125

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 56Volume 56 Treatises 52: Punishment and Law · 2 passages

房玄齡等曰：「寬仁弘不以私而以功，何罪之請？」 Fang Xuanling and others said: "You spared Ren Hong not from private favor but for his merit—what offense requires confession?"

自房玄齡等更定律、令、格、式，訖太宗世，用之無所變改。 From the time Fang Xuanling and others revised the Code, Ordinances, Administrative Rules, and Formulas, they remained unchanged through Taizong's reign.