Liu Zan (劉讚) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Zan as an official and teacher. This record brings together 17 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 Zan	劉讚	Liu Zan
Personal	Liu Zan	劉讚
Personal name	Liu Zan	劉讚	Liu Zan
Personal name	Zan	瓚	Zan
Given name	Zan	讚	Zan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:051:s0105, jiuwudaishi:068:s0139
Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:042:s0168

Roles

Official
Teacher

Life and dates

Death

Place: Shihui Pass / 石會關 · Age: Value: 60 · As: over · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清泰二年 · Western Year: AD 935
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0172

Age

Stated Age: 60 · Reckoning: over · Context: at death
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0172

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天成中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 930
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:068:s0148
Source Date: Text: 清泰二年春 · Western Year: AD 935
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0171
Source Date: Text: 長興中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 930 · End: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:051:s0105, jiuwudaishi:051:s0101
Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:042:s0168

Family

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Child of Liu Bi (劉比)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Spouse of Lady Heganshi (紇幹氏)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage

Kinship Role: widow and young children · Count: 2
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0149

Career and standing

Label: Vice Minister of Punishments; formerly Censor-in-chief / 刑部侍郎、御史中丞 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0168
Label: Tutor of the Prince of Qin / 秦王傅 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0152
Label: Vice Minister of Justice; prince tutor / 刑部侍郎；王傅 · Action: nominated
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:051:s0105
Label: long exile to Lanzhou / 長流嵐州 · Action: suffered
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0170

Places and affiliations

Place: Weizhou / 魏州 · Relation: native
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0139

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0144

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Li Congrong (李從榮) · Quoted: true
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0166
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0169

Events and relationships

Kind: funeral · Role: mourner · Action: managed-funeral · Other Person Id: Dou Mengzheng (竇夢徵)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0149
Relation: friend-of · Person Id: Dou Mengzheng (竇夢徵)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0149
Relation: client-of · Person Id: Liu Xun (劉鄩)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0145
Relation: teacher-of · Person Id: Li Congrong (李從榮)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0152, jiuwudaishi:068:s0161
Relation: client-of · Person Id: Zhao Yan (趙岩)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0146
Relation: client-of · Person Id: Luo Shaowei (羅紹威)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0145
Relation: recommended-by · Person Id: Kong Qian (孔謙)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0147
Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Yang Ningshi (楊凝式)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0149

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: gentle, cautious, immovable by private appeals · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0151

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 1 passage

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以御史中丞劉讚為刑部侍郎，以鳳州節度使孫嶽充西面閣道使。 Liu Zan, censor-in-chief, became punishments vice minister; Sun Yue of Feng became western pass commissioner.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 51Volume 51 Book of Later Tang 27: Biographies 3: Imperial Family · 1 passage

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從榮乃奏刑部侍郎劉讚為王傅，又奏翰林學士崔棁為元帥府判官。 Congrong then nominated Vice Minister of Justice Liu Zan as his tutor and Hanlin Academician Cui Zhuo as chief administrator of the marshal's headquarters.

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 · 15 passages

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劉讚，魏州人也。 Liu Zan was a native of Weizhou.

比每肉食，別置蔬食以飯讚，謂之曰：「肉食，君之祿也。 Whenever Bi ate meat he set vegetables before Zan and said, "Meat is an official's perquisite.

由是讚及冠有文辭，年三十餘登進士第。 Zan grew into a polished writer and passed the jinshi examination in his thirties.

莊宗入汴，租庸副使孔謙以讚里人，表為鹽鐵判官。 When Zhuangzong took Bian, Deputy Grain-Tax Commissioner Kong Qian, a fellow townsman, recommended Zan as salt and iron commissioner.

與學士竇夢徵同年登第，鄰居友善，夢徵卒，讚與同年楊凝式緦麻為位而哭，其家無嫡長，與視喪事，恤其孀稚，人士稱之。 He had passed the jinshi in the same year as Hanlin academician Dou Mengzheng, and they were friendly neighbors. When Mengzheng died, Zan and his year-mate Yang Ningshi donned hemp mourning and wept at the bier. The family had no eldest son, so Zan helped manage the funeral and cared for the widow and children — conduct widely praised.

讚性雍和，與物無忤，居官畏慎，人若以私幹之，雖權豪不能移其操。 Zan was gentle and easy in manner, careful in office, and immovable in principle — even the powerful could not sway him with private appeals.

〈（《冊府元龜》：秦王為元帥，秦王府判官、太子詹事王居敏與讚鄉曲之舊，以秦王盛年自恣，須朝中選端士納誨，冀其稟畏，乃奏薦讚焉。）〉 (The Prime Tortoise records that when the Prince of Qin was grand marshal, Wang Jumin, judge of the Qin princely mansion and grand mentor of the heir apparent, an old fellow townsman of Zan, recommended him because the young prince was self-indulgent and needed upright court scholars to admonish him.)〉

讚節概貞素，忽聞其命，掩泣固辭，竟不能止。 A man of plain integrity, Zan wept and firmly declined when he heard of the appointment, but could not refuse it.

〈（案《通鑒》：瓚自以左遷，泣訴，不得免。 (The Zizhi Tongjian records that Zan regarded the appointment as a demotion, wept and pleaded, and could not be excused.

言蓋以從榮輕佻峻急，恐豫其禍，故求脫耳。）〉 The comment suggests Zan feared Congrong's rash and violent character and sought to escape before disaster struck.)〉

讚為師傅，亦與諸客混，然容狀不悅。 As tutor, Zan was lumped in with the other guests, and his displeasure showed on his face.