Feng Tang 馮唐

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · hanshu:059:s0088, hanshu:090:s0003, shiji:102:s0085
• Sex: male
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0278, houhanshu:032:s0005

Roles

• Administrator
• Military Officer
• Official
• Statesman

Family

• Descendant of Grandfather of Feng Tang (馮唐祖父)
  Kinship Term: grandfather / 大父 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal · Subject Role: grandfather · Object Role: grandson
  Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖父 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
• Child of Father of Feng Tang (馮唐父)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Child of Chancellor of Dai (代相)
  Kinship Term: son of the chancellor of Dai / 代相子 · Parentage: biological
• Parent of Feng Sui (馮遂)
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological

Career and standing

• Label: Chancellor of Chu / 楚相 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 七年，景帝立 · Western Year: BC 157
  Explicit · shiji:102:s0130
• Label: Captain of the Attendants / 中郎署長 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 事文帝 · Western Interval: Start: BC 180 · End: BC 157
  Explicit · shiji:102:s0088
• Label: Chancellor of Chu / 楚相 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十年，景帝立 · Western Year: BC 157
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0281
• Label: Chariot and Cavalry Colonel / 車騎都尉 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 文帝 · Western Interval: Start: BC 180 · End: BC 157
  Explicit · shiji:102:s0129
• Label: chief commandant of chariots and cavalry / 車騎都尉 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0126
• Label: Chancellor of Chu / 楚相 · Action: dismissed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 景帝 · Western Interval: Start: BC 157 · End: BC 141
  Explicit · shiji:102:s0130
• Label: chief of a section of palace gentlemen / 郎中署長 · Action: held
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0088
• Status: renowned-for-filial-piety · Action: held
  Explicit · shiji:102:s0088

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Han / 漢 · Relation: served
  Explicit · shiji:102:s0088
• Polity: Western Han / 漢 · Relation: served
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0088
• Place: Anling / 安陵
  Strongly inferred · shiji:102:s0087, shiji:102:s0085
• Place: Anling / 安陵 · Relation: resided-at
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0087

Learning and skills

• Skill: discourse on generals / 論將率 · Level: renowned
  Explicit · shiji:102:s0135

Works and attributed material

• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Emperor Wen of Han (漢文)
  Explicit · shiji:102:s0095, shiji:102:s0097, shiji:102:s0098, shiji:102:s0101, shiji:102:s0102, shiji:102:s0105, shiji:102:s0109, shiji:102:s0110, shiji:102:s0111, shiji:102:s0112, shiji:102:s0113, shiji:102:s0114, shiji:102:s0115, shiji:102:s0116, shiji:102:s0117, shiji:102:s0118, shiji:102:s0119, shiji:102:s0120, shiji:102:s0121, shiji:102:s0122, shiji:102:s0123, shiji:102:s0124, shiji:102:s0125, shiji:102:s0126, shiji:102:s0127
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Emperor Wen (文帝)
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0095, hanshu:059:s0097, hanshu:059:s0098, hanshu:059:s0101, hanshu:059:s0102, hanshu:059:s0105, hanshu:059:s0108, hanshu:059:s0109, hanshu:059:s0110, hanshu:059:s0111, hanshu:059:s0112, hanshu:059:s0113, hanshu:059:s0114, hanshu:059:s0115, hanshu:059:s0116, hanshu:059:s0117, hanshu:059:s0118, hanshu:059:s0119, hanshu:059:s0120, hanshu:059:s0121, hanshu:059:s0122, hanshu:059:s0123, hanshu:059:s0124

Events and relationships

• Kind: appraisal · Role: exemplar · Action: cited in chapter appraisal for discourse on generals
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0278
• Kind: political · Role: envoy · Action: pardoned-wei-shang-by-imperial-order · Other Person Id: Wei Shang (魏尚) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 文帝 · Western Interval: Start: BC 180 · End: BC 157
  Explicit · shiji:102:s0129
• Kind: legal · Role: envoy · Action: pardoned · Other Person Id: Wei Shang (魏尚)
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0126

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: counsel on generals · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0278
• Assessment: discourse-on-generals-full-of-meaning · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Sima Qian (太史公)
  Explicit · shiji:102:s0135
• Kind: filial-devotion · Statement: noted for filial piety
  Explicit · hanshu:059:s0088

Source notes

• Statement: Recommended as worthy under Emperor Wu but too old to serve; son appointed instead
  Explicit · shiji:102:s0131, shiji:102:s0132