Luo Guan (羅貫) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Luo Guan as a judge and official. This record brings together 8 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Luo Guan	羅貫	Luo Guan
Given name	Guan	貫	Guan
Personal name	Luo Guan	羅貫	Luo Guan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:071:s0093

Roles

Judge
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution · Place: prefectural gate / 府門 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同光 · Western Interval: Start: AD 923 · End: AD 926
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0112

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 同光 · Western Interval: Start: AD 923 · End: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:071:s0094

Career and standing

Label: magistrate of Henan / 河南令 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0094

Learning and skills

Credential: jinshi / 進士 · Action: earned
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0094

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: defendant · Action: executed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0103, jiuwudaishi:071:s0112

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: forceful and upright · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0095

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 71Volume 71 Book of Later Tang 47: Biographies 23: Ma Yu, Si Kongting, Cao Tingyin, Xiao Xifu, Yao Zongzhi, Jia Fu, Ma Gao, Luo Guan, Chun Yuyan, Zhang Ge, Xu Ji, Zhou Xuanbao · 8 passages

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羅貫，不知何許人。 Luo Guan was a man of unknown origin.

貫為人強直，正身奉法，不避權豪。 Guan was forceful and upright, held himself to the law, and never shrank from the powerful.

時宦官伶人用事，凡請托於貫者，其書盈閣，一無所報，皆以示郭崇韜，因奏其事，由是左右每言貫之失。 Eunuchs and actor-favorites held power; pleas to Guan filled his office, yet he answered none and showed them all to Guo Chongtao, who reported them to the throne; from then on the emperor's intimates constantly denounced Guan.

及貫授命，持本朝事體，奉全義稍慢，部民為府司庇護者，必奏正之。 Once Guan took office he upheld the proper forms of the new dynasty, treated Quanyi with less deference, and whenever locals were shielded by Quanyi's staff he reported them to the throne.

促令召貫至，奏曰：「臣初不奉命，請詰稟命者。」 He ordered Guan summoned at once; Guan replied, "I never received the order in the first place—question whoever reported it."

郭崇韜奏曰：「貫別無贓狀，橋道不修，法未當死。」 Guo Chongtao argued, "Guan shows no other sign of corruption; neglected roads and bridges are not a capital offense."

崇韜奏曰：「貫縱有死罪，俟款狀上奏，所司議讞，以朝典行之，死當未晚。 Chongtao urged, "Even if Guan deserves death, let him confess, let the proper offices judge, and execute him by statute—it is not yet too late to kill him.

即令伏法，曝屍於府門，冤痛之聲，聞於遠邇。 Guan was executed at once; his body was exposed at the prefectural gate, and cries of injustice rang far and wide.