Gao Pian (高駢) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Gao Pian as a general, official, and warlord. This record brings together 15 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	Gao Pian	高駢	Gāo Pián
Personal name	Gao Pian	高駢	Gao Pian
Personal name	Gao Pian	高駢	Gāo Pián
Given	Pian	駢	Pian

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:017:s0210
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:020:s0083, xinwudaishi:041:s0036
Value: male
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0197

Roles

General
Official
Warlord

Life and dates

Death

Statement: died before Qin Yan and Sun Ru's disorders
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:017:s0137

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾符五年 · Western Year: AD 878
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:184:s0190, xintangshu:184:s0197
Source Date: Text: 唐僖宗避敵在蜀 · Western Year: AD 881
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:020:s0085
Source Date: Text: 唐廣明中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 880 · End: AD 881
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:041:s0036
Source Date: Text: 廣明初 · Western Year: AD 880
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:017:s0209, jiuwudaishi:017:s0210

Family

Kin of Gao Shao (高劭)
Kinship Term: younger agnatic cousin / 從子 · Subject Role: younger-cousin · Object Role: senior-kinsman
Kinship Term: cousin (father's brother's son / younger agnatic cousin) / 從子 · Subject Role: paternal-uncle-or-cousin-senior · Object Role: younger-cousin

Career and standing

Label: military commissioner / 節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 廣明初 · Western Year: AD 880
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:017:s0209, jiuwudaishi:017:s0210

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 17Volume 17 Book of Later Liang 17: Biographies 7: Cheng Rui, Du Hong, Tian Yun, Zhao Kuangning, Zhang Ji, Lei Man · 4 passages

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行密度本郡不足依，乃投高駢。 Finding Hefei too small, he entered Gao Pian's service.

駢死，秦彥、孫儒等作亂，行密連誅之，遂有淮南之地。）〉 After Pian's death he destroyed Qin Yan and Sun Ru and seized Huainan.)〉

是時，朝廷以高駢為節度使，駢擢滿為裨將，以領蠻軍。 the court sent Gao Pian as commissioner, and Pian made Man a deputy to lead tribal levies.

駢移鎮淮南，復隸部曲，以悍獷趫健知名。 When Pian moved south, Man stayed in his retinue and won fame for ferocious speed.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 20Volume 20 Book of Later Liang 20: Biographies 10: Xie Tong, Si Maye, Liu Han, Wang Jinrao, Gao Shao, Ma Sixun, Zhang Cunjin, Kou Yanqing · 3 passages

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高劭，字子將，淮南節度使駢之從子也。 Gao Shao, who styled himself Zijiang, was a cousin of the Huainan commissioner Gao Pian.

唐僖宗避敵在蜀，駢鎮淮南為都統，兼諸道鹽鐵使，兵賦在己，朝廷優假之，以故劭幸而早官，年十四遙領華州刺史。 While Xizong sheltered in Shu, Pian ruled Huainan as supreme commander and salt-and-iron commissioner with troops and taxes in his fist; the court indulged him, and Shao at fourteen was given distant command as prefect of Hua.

光啟中，以駢命遏晉公王鐸於鄭。 Midway through Guangqi he blocked Wang Duo, Duke of Jin, at Zheng on Pian's order.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 184Volume 184 Biographies 109: Ma, Yang, Lu, Lu · 6 passages

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攜素厚高駢，屬令立功，乃固不可巢請，又欲激巢使戰而敗鐸，因授率府率。 Xie was close to Gao Pian and wished him merit; he firmly opposed Chao's request, also hoping to provoke Chao to fight and defeat Duo, and appointed him Rate-Setting Colonel.

又徇駢與南詔和親，與畋爭，相恨詈，繇是罷為太子賓客，分司東都。 He also indulged Pian in peace with Nanzhao; he quarreled with Tian in mutual hatred, and was dismissed to Palace Companion at the Eastern Capital.

會駢將張璘破賊，帝復召攜以門下侍郎同平章事。 When Pian's general Zhang Lin defeated the rebels, the emperor again summoned Xie as Vice Director of the Chancery and Grand Councillor.

及鐸失守，以駢代之，即按關東諸將為鐸、畋所任者，悉易置。 When Duo lost his post, Pian replaced him; he then reviewed eastern-pass generals appointed by Duo and Tian and replaced them all.

內倚田令孜，而外寄戎政於駢，與奪惟所愛惡。 Within he relied on Tian Lingzi, while outwardly he entrusted military affairs to Pian, appointing and dismissing as he pleased.

贊曰：盧攜之敗王鐸，私高駢，賊遂卷鹹、鎬而西，易若舉毛，可謂朝無人焉。 The appraisal says: Lu Xie's undoing of Wang Duo and private favoring of Gao Pian let the rebels sweep through Xian and Hao westward as easily as lifting a hair—the court had no one fit for the task.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 41Volume 41 Miscellaneous Biographies 21: Lu Guangchou, Tan Quanbo, Lei Man, Zhong Chuan, Zhao Kuangning · 2 passages

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是時，高駢鎮荊南，召滿隸麾下，使以蠻軍擊賊。 Gao Pian then held Jingnan. He took Man into his service and set his barbarians on the bandits.

駢徙淮南，滿從至廣陵，逃歸，殺刺史崔翥，遂據朗州，請命於唐。 When Pian moved to Huainan, Man followed him to Guangling, then bolted home, murdered the prefect Cui Zhu, seized Langzhou, and bowed to Tang.