Overview
Fang Xuanling was an official and Statesman.
Life and dates
Attested activity
- AD 631 to AD 637 玄齡等議曰Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 56, passages 74, 77
Career and standing
- statesman and legal reviser 玄齡Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passages 74, 77
Places and affiliations
- Polity Tang 唐 · Relation ServedDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passages 74, 77
Works and attributed material
- Administrative Rules 格Relation CompilerDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 79
- Formulas 式Relation CompilerDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 80
- Ordinances 令Relation CompilerDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 78
- Tang Code 律Relation CompilerDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 77
- Deliberation · Speaker · Mode quotation Speaker Fang Xuanling (房玄齡)Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 74
Events and relationships
- argued grandfather-grandson privilege outweighs brothers in ritual law 禮，孫為父尸，故祖有蔭孫令Legal · Deliberator · AdvisedDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 74
- fixed 1546 ordinance articles; pared Wude edicts to 700 rules; drew Formulas from office ledgers 定令一千五百四十六條...以為格...以為式Legal · Compiler · Compiled statutesDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passages 78-80
- helped set differential collective punishment for rebellion vs seditious speech 於是令：反逆者...惡言犯法者Legal · Legislator · OrdainedDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passages 75-76
- revised Sui code into Tang Code with legal offices 與法司增損隋律...以為律Legal · Reviser · Revised codeDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 77
Source notes
- Historicity historicalDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 74
- Commuted capital punishment to exile in 92 articles and exile to penal servitude in 71 when revising the Sui codeDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 77
References in the histories
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