Kong Zhaoxu (孔昭序)

Overview

The translated histories identify Kong Zhaoxu as an official. This record brings together 4 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	Kong Zhaoxu	孔昭序	Kong Zhaoxu
Surname	Kong	孔	Kong
Personal name	Kong Zhaoxu	孔昭序	Kong Zhaoxu
Personal name	Kong Zhaoxu	孔昭序	Kǒng Zhāoxù
Given	Zhaoxu	昭序	Zhaoxu
Given name	Zhaoxu	昭序

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:096:s0001
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:127:s0038

Roles

Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 後唐 · Western Interval: Start: AD 923 · End: AD 936
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:096:s0001
Source Date: Text: 清泰 · Western Interval: Start: AD 934 · End: AD 936
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:127:s0038

Family

Kin of Kong Chongbi (孔崇弼)
Kinship Term: older clansman brother / 族兄 · Line: paternal · Subject Relative Age: younger
Kinship Term: younger clansman brother / 族弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder

Career and standing

Label: Right Regular Attendant / 右常侍 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0038
Label: Supervising Censor / 給事中 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:096:s0001
Label: Left Regular Attendant / 左常侍 · Action: transferred
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:096:s0001

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0038

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 96Volume 96 Book of Later Jin 22: Biographies 11: Kong Chongbi, Chen Baoji, Wang Yu, Zhang Jizuo, Zhen Ruan, Hu Rao, Liu Suiqing, Fang Gao, Meng Chenghui, Liu Jixun, Zheng Shouyi, Cheng Xun, Li Yu, Zheng Xuansu, Ma Zhongji, Chen Xuan · 1 passage

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孔崇弼，初仕後唐，自吏部郎中授給事中，時族兄昭序繇給事中改左常侍，兄弟同居門下，時論榮之。 Kong Chongbi began his career under Later Tang. Promoted from director in the Ministry of Personnel to supervising censor, he served at the same time as his older kinsman Zhaoxu, who had moved from supervising censor to left regular attendant. With both brothers holding posts in the Secretariat, contemporaries took it as a mark of family distinction.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 127Volume 127 Book of Later Zhou 29: Biographies 7: Lu Wenji, Ma Yisun, He Ning, Su Yugui, Jing Fan · 3 passages

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劉句為僕射，性剛，群情嫉之，乃共贊右常侍孔昭序論行香次第，言：「常侍侍從之臣，行立合在僕射之前。」 Liu Gou served as left vice director; his stiffness bred resentment. Courtiers backed Right Regular Attendant Kong Zhaoxu's memorial on incense order, arguing that "a regular attendant attends the sovereign and should walk before a vice director."

同光已來，李琪、盧質繼為僕射，質性輕脫，不能守師長之體，故昭序輕言。 Since Tongguang, Li Qi and Lu Zhi had held the post; Zhi was flighty and failed the senior's demeanor, which emboldened Zhaoxu.

自後日責臺司定例，崔居儉謂南宮同列曰：「從昭序言語，是朝廷人總不解語也。 Afterward he daily demanded the Censorate fix precedent. Cui Jujian told Southern Palace colleagues, "To follow Zhaoxu's words is to say the whole court cannot speak properly.