Lu Wenji (盧文紀) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Lu Wenji as a diplomat, official, and statesman. This record brings together 26 passages from 6 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Lu Wenji	盧文紀	Lu Wenji
Surname	Lu	盧	Lú
Surname	Lu	盧	Lu
Personal	Lu Wenji	盧文紀
Personal name	Lu Wenji	盧文紀	Lú Wénjì
Personal name	Lu Wenji	盧文紀	Lu Wenji
Given name	Wenji	文紀	Wénjì
Given	Wenji	文紀	Wenji
Courtesy name	Zichi	子持	Zǐchí

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:037:s0087, jiuwudaishi:144:s0045
Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0001, xinwudaishi:007:s0060
Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:042:s0125
Value: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0043

Roles

Diplomat
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 廣順元年夏 · Season: summer · Western Year: AD 951
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0180

Age

Age: 76 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0180

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 清泰三年八月 · Month: 8 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:127:s0017, jiuwudaishi:127:s0018
Source Date: Text: 廣順元年夏 · Season: summer · Western Year: AD 951
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0180
Source Date: Text: 清泰三年夏 · Season: summer · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:127:s0016
Source Date: Text: 天成元年十月 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:037:s0087, jiuwudaishi:037:s0100
Source Date: Text: 明宗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:144:s0042, jiuwudaishi:144:s0045
Source Date: Text: 清泰初 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:127:s0007
Source Date: Text: 秋七月辛亥 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:007:s0060
Source Date: Text: 紀年語境（天福1年） · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:008:s0043
Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:042:s0125
Source Date: Text: 長興末 · Western Year: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:127:s0004

Family

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Parent of Lu Guiling (盧龜齡)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

Label: Vice Minister of the Secretariat and Fellow of the Secretariat-Chancellery / 中書侍郎、同平章事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清泰初 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0010
Label: Director of the Secretariat; formerly Deputy Director of Rites / 秘書監、太常少卿 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0125
Label: Censor-in-Chief / 御史中丞 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:037:s0100
Label: Director of the Ministry of Personnel / 吏部尚書 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0173
Label: Grand Master of Works / 司空 · Action: appointed · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: History of Ouyang / 歐陽史
Textual variant · jiuwudaishi:127:s0179
Label: Grand Mentor of the Heir Apparent / 太子太師 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0175
Label: Grand Tutor of the Heir Apparent / 太子太傅 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0174
Label: Minister of Ceremonies / 太常卿 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0004
Label: special inspector of Luoyang branch officials / 別令檢轄 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0176
Label: court office · Action: dismissed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0043
Label: Director of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices / 太常卿 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0045
Label: Junior Tutor of the Heir Apparent / 太子少傅 · Action: promoted
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0173
Label: Minister over the Masses / 司徒 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0181
Status: retired · Action: entered
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0178

Places and affiliations

Polity: Later Tang / 唐 · Relation: served
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0004, jiuwudaishi:127:s0010
Place: Wannian in Jingzhao / 京兆萬年
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0001

Works and attributed material

Work: ascending-song hymn for Mingzong's temple chamber / 登歌樂章 · Relation: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0043, jiuwudaishi:144:s0045
Kind: memorial · Role: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:037:s0087
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Last Emperor (末帝) · Quoted: true
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0022, jiuwudaishi:127:s0023
Kind: speech · Role: addressee · Speaker Person Id: Last Emperor (末帝) · Quoted: true
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0018

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: opponent · Action: angered-by-memorial · Other Person Id: Shi Zaide (史在德)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0015
Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: sent-to · Place: Shu / 蜀川
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0006
Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Yao Yi (姚顗)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0010

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: addicted to trade/profit-seeking · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0170
Assessment: offered no true ministerial counsel; busied with factional grudges · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0012
Kind: physical-description · Statement: tall and imposing physique; clear carrying voice; hearty appetite
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0005
Item: great amassed wealth / 積財巨萬 · Relation: possessed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0182

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 37Volume 37 Book of Later Tang 13: Mingzong Annals 3 · 2 passages

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丙戌，吏部侍郎盧文紀上言：「請內外文武臣僚，每歲有司明定考校，將相乞回御筆，以行黜陟，疏下中書門下商量，宰臣奏請施行。」 On bingxu Lu Wenji asked: "Let civil and military officials within and without each year have their offices set annual review; for generals and ministers, use the imperial brush for promotions and demotions after Secretariat discussion."

庚戌，以吏部侍郎盧文紀為御史中丞，時御史大夫李琪三上表求解任故也。 On gengxu Lu Wenji became censor-in-chief after Li Qi three times asked to resign the post.

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

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癸亥，以太常少卿盧文紀為秘書監，以秘書監馬縞為太子賓客，左監門上將軍羅周敬為右領軍上將軍，前懷州刺史婁繼英為左監門上將軍。 On guihai Lu Wenji of rites became secretariat director; Ma Gao of the secretariat became crown prince guest; Luo Zhoujing of the left gate became right collar general; former Huai prefect Lou Jiying became left gate general.

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 · 20 passages

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盧文紀，字子持，京兆萬年人。 Lu Wenji, courtesy name Zichi, came from Wannian in the Jingzhao commandery.

文紀形貌魁偉，語音高朗，占對鏗鏘，健於飲啖。 Wenji was tall and imposing, spoke in a clear, carrying voice, answered audiences with ringing assurance, and ate and drank with hearty appetite.

奉使蜀川，路由岐下，時唐末帝為岐帥，以主禮待之，觀其儀形旨趣，遇之頗厚。 While on embassy to Shu he traveled through Qi, where the future Last Emperor of Tang held the Qi governorship and received him with a host's courtesy. Struck by Wenji's bearing and manner, he showed him exceptional regard.

清泰初，中書闕輔相，末帝訪之於朝，左右曰：「臣見班行中所譽，當大拜者，姚顗、盧文紀、崔居儉耳。」 Early in Qingtai, with no vice-chancellor in the Secretariat, the Last Emperor asked the court whom to appoint. Attendants said, "Of those the ranks most commend for great promotion, I see Yao Hao, Lu Wenji, and Cui Jujian."

末帝乃俱書當時清望達官數人姓名，投琉璃瓶中，月夜焚香，禱請於天，旭旦以箸挾之，首得文紀之名，次即姚顗。 The emperor wrote the names of several leading officials of the day, dropped them into a glass jar, burned incense under the moon, and prayed to Heaven. At dawn he drew with chopsticks: Wenji's name came first, then Yao Hao's.

末帝素已奇待，歡然命之，即授中書侍郎、同平章事，與姚顗同升相位。 He had long held Wenji in special regard. Pleased, he appointed him Vice Minister of the Secretariat and Fellow of the Secretariat-Chancellery, elevating him to chief minister alongside Yao Hao.

文紀處經綸之地，無輔弼之謀，所論者愛憎朋黨之小瑕，所糾者銓選擬掄之微颣。 Though he occupied the seat of statecraft, Wenji offered no true ministerial counsel. He busied himself with petty factional grudges and trifling flaws in appointments and promotions.

疏下中書，文紀以為非己，怒甚，召諫議大夫盧損為覆狀，辭旨蕪漫，為眾所嗤。 When the memorial reached the Secretariat, Wenji took it as a personal attack and was furious. He had Remonstrance Officer Lu Sun draft a reply; the prose was vague and rambling, and everyone laughed at it.

文紀扈從，帝顧謂之曰：「朕聞主憂臣辱，予自鳳翔來，首命卿為宰相，聽人所論，將為便致太平，今寇孽紛紛，令萬乘自行戰賊，於汝安乎？」 Wenji followed the campaign. The emperor turned to him and said, "They say the minister shares the ruler's shame. Since Fengxiang I made you chancellor first, believing men who said you would soon restore peace. Now rebels swarm and I must ride out to fight them myself—does that sit well with you?"

文紀惶恐致謝。 Wenji thanked him in terror.

初次河陽，召文紀、張延朗謀議。 When he first reached Heyang he called Wenji and Zhang Yanlang to deliberate.