Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

Feng Ba 馮跋

Attested AD 409 - AD 430

Passages: 14
Chapters: 4
Histories: 3

Overview

The translated histories identify Feng Ba as a ruler and warlord. This record brings together 14 passages from 4 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Feng Ba	馮跋	Feng Ba
Given	Ba	跋
Personal name	Feng Ba	馮跋	Feng Ba
Personal name	Feng Ba	馮跋	Féng Bá
Personal	Feng Bo	馮跋	Feng Bo
Title	Lord of Feng	馮主
Title	ruler of Northern Yan	北燕主

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · beiqishu:040:s0019, liaoshi:039:s0113, weishu:093:s0007, weishu:093:s0008, weishu:093:s0009
Sex: male
Explicit · weishu:030:s0038

Roles

Ruler
Warlord

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 北燕主 · Western Interval: Start: AD 409 · End: AD 430
Strongly inferred · beiqishu:040:s0019
Source Date: Text: 太宗時至馮氏亡前 · Western Interval: Start: AD 414 · End: AD 430
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:093:s0007, weishu:093:s0017
Source Date: Text: 晉 · Western Interval: Start: AD 409 · End: AD 430
Explicit · liaoshi:039:s0113
Source Date: Text: 馮跋 · Western Interval: Start: AD 423 · End: AD 430
Explicit · weishu:030:s0038

Family

Ancestor of Feng Zicong (馮子琮)
Kinship Term: descendant / 之後

Places and affiliations

Label: Northern Yan / 北燕 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · beiqishu:040:s0019

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: conqueror · Action: seized-territory · Place: Bei'an / Nuqi area / 北安州地
Explicit · liaoshi:039:s0113

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 40Volume 40 Biographies 32: Yu Jin (Northern Qi); Feng Zicong; Helian Ziyue; Tang Yong; Bai Jian · 1 passage

馮子琮，信都人，北燕主馮跋之後也。 Feng Zicong came from Xindu and was descended from Northern Yan's ruler Feng Ba.

History of Liao, Chapter 39Volume 39 Treatises 9: Geography 3 · 1 passage

晉為馮跋所據。 Jin times saw Feng Ba take it.

Book of Wei, Chapter 30Volume 25: Zhang Sunsong, Zhangsun Daosheng · 2 passages

尚書劉潔、武京侯安原請先平馮跋。 Liu Jie of the Masters of Writing and An Yuan, Marquis of Wujing, urged that Feng Bo be subdued first.

尚書劉潔武京侯安原請先平馮跋卷三０安原傳「武京」作「武原」。 Minister Liu Jie, Marquis of Wujing, Hou Anyuan, and others asked to pacify Feng Bo first: juan 30, Anyuan's life, has "Wujing" as "Wuyuan."

Book of Wei, Chapter 93Volume 87: Morality and Righteousness: Yu Shenmen, Duan Jin, Shi Wende, Ji Gu, Wang Xuanwei, Lou Ti, Liu Kehou · 10 passages

太宗時為謁者，使喻馮跋。 Under Emperor Mingyuan he served as usher and was dispatched to deliver the court's message to Feng Ba.

及至和龍，住外舍不入，使人謂跋曰：「大魏皇帝有詔，須馮主出受，然後敢入。」 On reaching Helong he stayed in an outer lodge and refused to go in, sending word to Feng Ba: "The emperor of Great Wei has issued an edict. Your lordship must come out to receive it; only then may I enter."

跋使人牽逼令入，見跋不拜，跋令人按其項。 Feng Ba's men seized and hustled him inside. When he saw Feng Ba he would not bow, and Feng Ba ordered someone to press down on his neck.

什門曰：「馮主拜受詔，吾自以賓主致敬，何須苦見逼也！」 Shenmen said, "When my lord of Feng bows to receive the edict, I will offer the respect proper between host and guest. Why torment me like this?"

與跋往復，聲氣厲然，初不撓屈。 He and Feng Ba argued back and forth, his tone fierce throughout, and he never once gave way.

既而跋止什門。 In the end Feng Ba held Shenmen prisoner.

什門於羣眾之中，回身背跋，被袴後襠以辱之。 Before the assembled crowd Shenmen turned his back on Feng Ba, pulled on his trousers with the seat to the front, and presented his backside to insult him.

跋遺以衣服，什門拒而不受。 Feng Ba sent him clothing, but Shenmen refused to take it.

八月遣于什門招諭馮跋，至此年二十一年矣。 In the eighth month Yu Shenmen was sent to summon Feng Ba; by this year twenty-one years had elapsed.

若二十四年，乃在太延三年，而太延二年馮氏亡矣。」 If it were twenty-four years, that would place the return in Taiyan year 3, but the Feng state fell in Taiyan year 2."