Hao Tianting (郝天挺)

Overview

Hao Tianting was an official and Scholar.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Jixian	繼先	Jixian
Posthumous name	Wending	文定	Wending

Life and dates

Death

AD 1313 皇慶二年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 186

Age

67
AD 1313 皇慶二年 · Reckoning Sui
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 186

Attested activity

AD 1260 to AD 1294 世祖召見
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 174, passage 170
AD 1311 to AD 1313 仁宗臨御，皇慶之治
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 174, passage 178
AD 1260 to AD 1320 元史本傳標目
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 174, passage 167
AD 1307 成宗崩，定策之際
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 174, passage 177
AD 1294 to AD 1307 成宗朝奏事賜金
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 174, passages 175-177
AD 1313 皇慶二年卒
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 186

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AD 1260 to AD 1285 裕宗遇之甚厚
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 174, passage 171

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Heshang Badulu (和上拔都魯)
father 父
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 169
Parent of Hao You (郝佑)
son 子
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 189

Origins and identity

Dorben tribe 朵魯別族
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 168

Career and standing

censor-in-chief of the Shaanxi Regional Censorate 陝西行御史臺中丞
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 173
censor-in-chief 御史中丞
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 179
deliberator of the Yunnan Regional Secretariat 參議雲南行尚書省事
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 172
documentary duties and night guard at the Eastern Palace 執文字，備宿衛春宮
Appointed
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 174, passage 170
integrity commissioner of Shaanxi and Hanzhong Circuit 陝西漢中道廉訪使
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 172
left chancellor of the Central Secretariat 中書左丞
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 174

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Minister of Personnel 吏部尚書
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 173
regional councilor of Henan 河南行省平章政事
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 184
right chancellor of Jiangxi and Henan 江西、河南二省右丞
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 179
associate administrator of the Sichuan regional secretariat 四川行省參政
Offered and declined · Negated true
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 173
left chancellor of the Jiang-Zhe regional secretariat 江浙行省左丞
Offered and declined · Negated true
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 173
regional councilor of the Central Secretariat 中書平章政事
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 187
associate administrator 參知政事
Promoted
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 172
Duke of Ji 冀國公
Posthumously enfeoffed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 187
Wending 文定
Posthumous title granted
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 187
Grand Master of Splendid Happiness 光祿大夫
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 187
Pillar of the State 柱國
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 187
son of a meritorious minister 勳臣子
Son of meritorious minister
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 170

Places and affiliations

Polity Id yuan · Relation Associated
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 174, passage 167
Polity Id yuan · Relation Served
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passages 170, 174, 178
At Ansu Prefecture 安肅州 · Relation Ancestral residence
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 168
At Yunnan 雲南 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 172

Works and attributed material

Veritable Records of Yunnan 雲南實錄
Relation Compiler · Extent five fascicles 五卷
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 188
Tang Drum-and-Pipe Collection 鼓吹集
Relation Annotator · Extent ten fascicles 一十卷
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 188
Memorial · Author · Paraphrased
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 183
Speech · Addressee · Speaker Chengzong (成宗) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 176
Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passages 180-181

Events and relationships

Aided succession deliberations
Political · Policy adviser · With Renzong (仁宗)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 177
Helped reform Secretariat abuses and achieve Huangqing governance
Political · Reformer
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 178
Joint good government in Henan
Administrative · Administrator · With Bulqanjadai (卜憐吉歹)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 185
Presented clear memorial
Court · Memorialist
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 175
Proposed seven reforms ordered implemented
Political · Memorialist
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 183
Rebuked chief minister to his face
Political · Official
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 174

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Recalled to deliberate great affairs
Political · Councilor · With Renzong (仁宗)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 178
Revived censorial discipline
Political · Censor
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 182
Summoned for audience
Audience · Summoned person · With Emperor Shizu (世祖)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 170
Relation Student of · Person Yuan Haowen (元好問)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 170
Relation Teacher of · Person Bulqanjadai (卜憐吉歹)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 185
Relation Favored by · Person Yuzong (裕宗)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 171

Assessments and attributes

Assessment praised-for-censorial-metaphor · Mode named-person-judgment Source Person Id Renzong (仁宗)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 182
brilliant, forthright, upright, with ambition and strategy
Character
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 170
Item one hundred taels of gold 黃金百兩 · Relation Refused grant
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 175

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · History of Yuan 174, passage 167

References in the histories

History of Yuan, Chapter 174Volume 174 Biographies 61: Yao Sui, Guo Guan, Jia Guzhiqi, Liu Geng, Ye Luyoushang, Hao Tianting, Zhang Kongsun · 7 passages

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郝天挺 Hao Tianting

郝天挺，字繼先，出於朵魯別族，自曾祖而上，居安肅州。 Hao Tianting, styled Jixian, came of the Dorben tribe; from his great-grandfather's generation the family lived in Ansu Prefecture.

天挺英爽剛直，有志略，受業於遺山元好問，以勳臣子，世祖召見，嘉其容止，有旨：宜任以政，俾執文字，備宿衛春宮。 Tianting was brilliant, forthright, and ambitious; he studied under Yuan Haowen of Yishan. As the son of a meritorious minister he was summoned by Kublai, who admired his bearing and ordered that he be trained for government service, handle documents, and serve on night guard at the Eastern Palace.

成宗崩，仁宗以太后命，首定大難，及武宗還自朔方，遂入正大統，定策之際，天挺與有力焉。 When Chengzong died, Renzong, acting on the empress dowager's orders, first resolved the succession crisis; when Wuzong returned from the north the legitimate line was restored, and Tianting played a decisive part in the deliberations.

仁宗臨御，收召故老天挺與少保張閭等十人，共議大政，革尚書省之弊，遂成皇慶之治。 When Renzong took the throne he recalled the aged Tianting with Junior Guardian Zhang Lü and eight others—ten men in all—to deliberate on great affairs, reform the abuses of the Secretariat, and bring about the good government of the Huangqing era.

贈光祿大夫、中書平章政事、柱國，追封冀國公，諡文定。 He was posthumously made Grand Master of Splendid Happiness, regional councilor of the Central Secretariat, and Pillar of the State, enfeoffed as Duke of Ji, and given the posthumous title Wending.

天挺嘗修《雲南實錄》五卷，又注唐人《鼓吹集》一十卷，行於世。 Tianting compiled five fascicles of the Veritable Records of Yunnan and annotated the Tang Drum-and-Pipe Collection in ten fascicles; both works circulated widely.