Five Dynasties · Envoy and Diplomat

Lang Gongyuan 郎公遠

Attested AD 920 - AD 920

Passages
3
Chapters
3
Histories
3

Overview

The translated histories identify Lang Gongyuan as a courtier, diplomat, envoy, and official. This record brings together 3 passages from 3 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Lang Gongyuan 郎公遠 Lang Gongyuan
Personal Lang Gongyuan 郎公遠
Personal name Lang Gongyuan 郎公遠 Lang Gongyuan

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Courtier
  • Diplomat
  • Envoy
  • Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 貞明六年九月庚寅 · Regnal Year: 6 · Lunar Month: 9 · Sexagenary Day: 庚寅 · Western Year: AD 920
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:010:s0045
  • Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 920
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0016
  • Source Date: Text: 贞明六年九月 · Western Year: AD 920
    Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:003:s0063

Career and standing

Events and relationships

  • Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: goodwill-envoy-to-Khitan · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 贞明六年九月庚寅 · Western Year: AD 920
  • Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Destination: Khitan / 契丹

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 10Volume 10 Book of Later Liang 10: Later Emperors Annals 3 · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 2Volume 2 Annals 2: Taizu 2 · 1 passage
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 3Volume 3 Later Liang Annals 3: Later Emperors · 1 passage