Liu Wensou (劉溫叟) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Wensou as an official. This record brings together 7 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liu Wensou	劉溫叟	Liu Wensou
Personal name	Liu Wensou	劉溫叟	Liu Wensou
Alternate	Liu Wensou	劉溫叟	Liu Wensou
Personal name	Wensou	溫叟	Wensou

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0070

Roles

Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 長興中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 930 · End: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:068:s0073
Source Date: Text: 顯德二年 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:115:s0052
Source Date: Text: 顯德六年 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:120:s0071

Family

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Child of Liu Yue (劉嶽)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Child of Mother of Liu Wensou
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological

Career and standing

Label: Hanlin Academician / 翰林學士 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0073
Label: Censor-in-Chief / 御史中丞 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0070
Description: appointed Grand Mentor of the Heir Apparent / 授太子詹事 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:115:s0057
Description: Vice Minister of Rites responsible for candidate selection / 禮部侍郎主選士 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:115:s0052
Description: pardoned despite fault in selecting examination candidates / 選士有失而特赦其罪 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:115:s0052

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: addressee · Other Person Id: Mother of Liu Wensou · Quoted: true
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0073, jiuwudaishi:068:s0074

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: upright and principled · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Statesmen's Garden of Talk / 國老談苑
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0071

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 4 passages

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子溫叟，仕至御史中丞。 His son Wensou rose to censor-in-chief.

〈（《國老談苑》云：劉溫叟方正守道，以名教為己任。 (The Statesmen's Garden of Talk records that Liu Wensou was upright and principled, holding himself to the standards of proper conduct.

初為翰林學士，私庭拜母，母即命二婢箱擎公服、金帶，置於階下，謂溫叟曰：「此汝父長興中入翰林時所賜也。 When he first became a Hanlin academician, he bowed to his mother in their private courtyard. She at once had two maidservants bring out chests holding official robes and a gold belt and set them on the steps, saying, "These were granted when your father entered the Hanlin in the Changxing era.

溫叟伏地號慟，退就別寢，素衣蔬食，追慕數日，然後服之，士大夫以為得禮。）〉 Wensou prostrated himself and wailed aloud, then withdrew to another room, dressed in plain clothes and ate simple fare, and mourned his father for several days before putting on the robes. Men of cultivation held this to be proper ritual.)〉

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 115Volume 115 Book of Later Zhou 17: Shizong Annals 2 · 2 passages

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禮部侍郎劉溫叟失於選士，頗屬因循，據其過尤，合行譴謫，尚視寬恕，特與矜容，劉溫叟放罪，其將來貢舉公事，仍令所司別具條理以聞。」 Vice Minister of Rites Liu Wensou failed in selecting candidates and was unduly lax; by rights he should be punished, but I show leniency and release him from blame. Future examination rules shall be drawn up separately and reported.”

以禮部侍郎劉溫叟為太子詹事。 and Liu Wensou (Vice Minister of Rites) became Grand Mentor of the Heir Apparent.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 120Volume 120 Book of Later Zhou 22: Emperor Gong Annals · 1 passage

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以太子詹事劉溫叟為工部侍郎，判國子祭酒事。 Liu Wensou, mentor of the heir apparent, became vice minister of works and overseer of the National University.