Feng Shunqing (封舜卿)

Overview

The translated histories identify Feng Shunqing as an official and writer. This record brings together 7 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Feng Shunqing	封舜卿	Feng Shunqing
Personal name	Feng Shunqing	封舜卿	Feng Shunqing
Given name	Shunqing	舜卿	Shunqing
Courtesy name	Zansheng	讚聖	Zansheng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:031:s0037
Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0077

Roles

Official
Writer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 同光二年 · Western Year: AD 924
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:031:s0037
Source Date: Text: 莊宗同光已來 · Western Interval: Start: AD 923 · End: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:068:s0086
Source Date: Text: 開平三年 · Western Year: AD 909
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0083

Family

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Child of Feng Ao (封敖)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Kin of Feng Qiao (封翹)
Kinship Term: nephew / 从子 · Subject Role: uncle · Object Role: nephew
Kin of Feng Wei (封渭)
Kinship Term: nephew / 从子 · Subject Role: uncle · Object Role: nephew
Kinship Term: uncle / 叔 · Subject Role: nephew · Object Role: uncle

Career and standing

Label: Hanlin Academician / 翰林學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平三年 · Western Year: AD 909
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0083
Label: Vice Minister of Rites / 禮部侍郎 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0082

Places and affiliations

Place: Tiao County, Bohai / 渤海蓚縣 · Relation: ancestral
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0079

Events and relationships

Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: mission · Place: Youzhou / 幽州 · Other Person Id: Zheng Zhiyong (鄭致雍) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平三年 · Western Year: AD 909
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0083
Relation: teacher-of · Person Id: Zheng Zhiyong (鄭致雍)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0083, jiuwudaishi:068:s0084

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: edict drafting; model for gentry · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0174
Assessment: slow labored invention; patron shamed by student drafting · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0084

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 31Volume 31 Book of Later Tang 7: Zhuangzong Annals 5 · 1 passage

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以前太子賓客封舜卿為太子少保致仕； Feng Shunqing, Grand Guardian emeritus;

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 6 passages

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封舜卿， Feng Shunqing,

舜卿，字讚聖，父敖，字碩夫，戶部尚書、渤海縣男。 Shunqing's style was Zansheng. His father Ao, style Shuofu, had been minister of revenue and Baron of Bohai County.

致雍有俊才，舜卿雖有文辭，才思拙澀，及試五題，不勝困弊，因托致雍秉筆，當時譏者以為座主辱門生。 Zhiyong was brilliantly gifted. Shunqing had literary polish but slow, labored invention; when tested on five topics he was overwhelmed and asked Zhiyong to draft for him — contemporaries mocked it as a patron disgracing his protégé.

舜卿從子渭， Shunqing's nephew Wei,

昭宗遷洛時，為翰林學士，舜卿為中書舍人，叔侄對掌內外製。 When Emperor Zhaozong moved to Luoyang, Wei was a Hanlin academician while Shunqing was a Secretariat drafting secretary — uncle and nephew together controlled inner and outer edict drafting.

如廷珪之文學，崔沂之剛正，劉嶽之典禮，舜卿之掌誥，洎夢徵而下，皆蔚有貞規，無虧懿範，固可以為搢紳之圭表，聳朝廷之羽儀，以之垂名，夫何不韙。 Men such as Tinggui in letters, Yi in integrity, Yue in ritual, Shunqing in edict drafting, and from Mengzheng downward all upheld steadfast standards without blemish on their reputations. They may serve as models for the official class and ornaments of the court. To leave such names to posterity — what could be more fitting?