Fu Zhao (傅昭) | 24 Histories

Overview

Fu Zhao was an official and Scholar.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	Zhenzi	貞子	Zhēnzǐ

Life and dates

Death

AD 528 大通二年九月
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 95

Age

75
AD 528 大通二年九月 · Reckoning Sui
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 95

Attested activity

AD 528 大通二年九月
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 95
AD 513 十二年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 26, passage 79
AD 515 十四年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 26, passage 80
AD 518 十七年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 26, passage 81
AD 521 普通二年
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 85
AD 524 五年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 26, passage 86

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Kin of Daughter-in-law of Fu Zhao (傅昭子婦)
daughter-in-law 子婦
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 92
Parent of Fu Xu (傅諝)
eldest son 長子
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 97
Child of Father of Fu Zhao and Fu Ying (傅昭映父)
father 父
Strongly inferred · Book of Liang 26, passages 99-100
Parent of Fu Gong (傅肱)
second son 次子
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 98
Sibling of Fu Ying (傅映)
younger brother 弟 · Full siblings
Zhao’s younger brother 昭弟 · Full siblings
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 99

Career and standing

Administrator of Linhai 臨海太守
Appointed · From Source Date: Text: 十七年 · Regnal Year: 17 · Western Year: AD 518
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 26, passages 81, 102
Chief Arbiter of his home province 本州大中正
Appointed · From Source Date: Text: 普通二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 521
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passages 85-86
Director of the Secretariat 秘書監
Appointed · From Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Regnal Year: 12 · Western Year: AD 513
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 26, passage 79
Grand Master of Splendid Happiness 光祿大夫
Appointed · From Source Date: Text: 普通二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 521
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 85
Grand Master of the Golden Seal and Purple Ribbon 金紫光祿大夫
Appointed · From Source Date: Text: 五年 · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 524
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 26, passage 86
Regular Attendant of Direct Communication 通直散騎常侍
Appointed · From Source Date: Text: 普通二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 521
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 85

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Sagacious Martial General 智武將軍
Appointed · From Source Date: Text: 十七年 · Regnal Year: 17 · Western Year: AD 518
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 26, passage 81
Director of the Secretariat 秘書監
Concurrently held · From Source Date: Text: 普通二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 521
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 85
Rear Army General 後軍將軍
Concurrently held · From Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Regnal Year: 12 · Western Year: AD 513
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 26, passage 79
Minister of Ceremonies 太常卿
Transferred · From Source Date: Text: 十四年 · Regnal Year: 14 · Western Year: AD 515
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 26, passage 80
Regular Attendant 散騎常侍
Transferred · From Source Date: Text: 五年 · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 524
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 26, passage 86
funeral gifts of 30,000 cash and 50 bolts of cloth; mourning proclaimed same day 賻錢三萬，布五十匹，卽日舉哀
AD 528 大通二年九月 · Bestowed
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 96
Zhenzi 貞子
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 96

Places and affiliations

Polity Liang 梁 · Relation Served
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 26, passages 79, 85, 95
At Linhai 臨海 · Relation Posted to · From Source Date: Text: 十七年 · Regnal Year: 17 · Western Year: AD 518
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 26, passages 81-82, 102

Learning and skills

Skill books and records 書記 · Level lifelong
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 89
Skill knowledge of persons, pedigrees, and marriage alliances 人物 · Level renowned
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 90

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 92

Events and relationships

Farewell feast
AD 518 十七年 · Social · Guest · With Lu Chui (陸倕) · At Linhai 臨海
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 26, passage 102
Ordered beef buried rather than eaten or reported
Personal · Actor · With Daughter-in-law of Fu Zhao (傅昭子婦)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 92
Ordered honey cliff unsealed
Administration · Administrator · At Linhai 臨海
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passages 82-83
Returned silk hidden with chestnuts
Personal · Recipient
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 84

Assessments and attributes

Assessment governed through quiet integrity rather than harsh severity · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 87
Assessment made no solicitations, kept no private disciples, took no illicit gain · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 88
Assessment profoundly conscientious · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 91
Assessment revered by young scholars in the capital · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 94
Assessment would not compromise even in private · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 93

References in the histories

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History

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Book of Liang, Chapter 26Volume 26: Fan Xiu; Fu Zhao; Fu Ying; Xiao Chen; Lu Gao · 9 passages

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昭以周文之囿，與百姓共之，大可喻小，乃教勿封。 Zhao cited King Wen’s park, shared with the people—the great can stand for the small—and ordered that it remain open.

縣令常餉栗，置絹于薄下，昭笑而還之。 The county magistrate often sent chestnuts with silk hidden beneath the wrapping; Zhao smiled and sent them back.

昭所蒞官，常以清靜爲政，不尚嚴肅。 In every post he held Zhao governed through quiet integrity rather than harsh severity.

子婦嘗得家餉牛肉以進，昭召其子曰：「食之則犯法，告之則不可，取而埋之。」 His daughter-in-law once received beef from her family and served it to him; Zhao called his son and said, “To eat it breaks the law; to report it is impossible—take it and bury it.”

詔賻錢三萬，布五十匹，卽日舉哀，諡曰貞子。 The court granted thirty thousand cash and fifty bolts of cloth; mourning was proclaimed that day; his posthumous title was Zhenzi, “the Upright.”

映字徽遠，昭弟也。 Ying, styled Huiyuan, was Zhao’s younger brother.

始昭之守臨海，陸倕餞之，賓主俱歡，日昏不反，映以昭年高，不可連夜極樂，乃自往迎候，同乘而歸，兄弟並已斑白，時人美而服焉。 When Zhao first took office at Linhai, Lu Chui gave him a farewell feast; host and guests made merry until dusk, and Zhao did not return. Ying thought his elder brother, at his age, should not carouse all night; he went to fetch him himself, and they rode home together—both already gray-haired. Contemporaries admired and revered the deed.

及昭卒，映喪之如父，年逾七十，哀戚過禮，服制雖除，每言輒感慟。 When Zhao died, Ying mourned him as a father; though over seventy, his grief exceeded the prescribed rites, and even after the mourning period ended, speech would still move him to tears.

年未弱冠，彥回欲令仕，映以昭未解褐，固辭，須昭仕乃官。 Before he was twenty Yanhui wished him to take office, but Ying refused firmly while Zhao had not yet entered service; he would not take rank until his brother did.