Overview
Feng Ji was a Family Member Musician and Official.
PeriodFive Dynasties
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Attested activity
- AD 954 to AD 959 世宗嘗令彈於御前Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 126, passages 236-237
- AD 951 to AD 954 逮至末年Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 126, passage 227
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
- Child of Feng Dao (馮道)his son 其子
son 子Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 126, passages 227, 236
Career and standing
- Vice Director of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices 太常少卿Held as final rank · Mode named-source-report Source Work Supplement to the History of the Five Dynasties 五代史補Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 126, passages 240-241
Learning and skills
- Skill pipa 琵琶 · Level admired-at-court · played with leather stringsDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 126, passage 236
Events and relationships
- Played before ShizongDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 126, passage 236
- Practiced pipa harder despite rebuke and was made to perform for guestsDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 126, passages 237-238
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment especially unrestrained and dissolute; Dao could not restrain him · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 126, passage 227
- Item Thunder Rolling Round the Hall 繞殿雷 · Relation Used · pipa so named by ShizongDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 126, passage 236
Source notes
- Historicity historicalDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 126, passage 227
References in the histories
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