Pei Zhaoming (裴昭明)

Overview

The translated histories identify Pei Zhaoming as a courtier, diplomat, official, and scholar. This record brings together 10 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Pei Zhaoming	裴昭明	Péi Zhāomíng
Personal name	Pei Zhaoming	裴昭明
Title	Regular Attendant of the Unimpeded Cavalry	通直散騎常侍
Given name	Zhaoming	昭明
Given	Zhaoming	昭明	Zhāomíng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liangshu:030:s0007
Sex: male
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0002

Roles

Courtier
Diplomat
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中興二年 · Western Year: AD 502
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0155

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: before Pei Ziye early career · Western Year: AD 490
Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:030:s0007
Source Date: Text: 泰始中至中興二年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 465 · End: AD 502
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0002

Family

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Descendant of Pei Songzhi (裴松之)
Kinship Term: grandson / 孫 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Pei Yin (裴)
Child of Pei Yin (裴)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Parent of Pei Ziye (裴子野)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Kin of Pei Yi (裴顗)
Kinship Term: younger clansman cousin / 從祖弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder

Career and standing

Action: appointed on return · Appointments: Interior Steward of Shian / 始安內史
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0139
Action: appointed · Appointments: Chief Secretary for Pacification of the North under Wang Xuanmiao / 王玄邈安北長史, Grand Administrator of Guangling / 廣陵太守 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建武初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 494 · End: AD 498
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0148
Action: held · Appointments: Assistant Administrator of Changsha / 長沙郡丞 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元徽中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 473 · End: AD 477
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0134
Action: held · Appointments: Direct Attendant in the Department of Sacrifices / 祠部通直郎
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0137
Action: held · Appointments: Erudite of the Imperial University / 太學博士 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 泰始中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 465 · End: AD 471
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0124
Action: transferred · Appointments: Colonel of the Archers Who Shoot at Sound / 射聲校尉
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0146
Status: destitute and without a house after commandery service
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0143, nanqishu:053:s0144
Action: imprisoned and punished Gong Xuanxuan · Other Person Id: Gong Xuanxuan (龔玄宣)
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0142

Places and affiliations

Place: Wenxi in Hedong / 河東聞喜
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0121

Learning and skills

Subjects: Confucian learning, history · Relation: inherited family tradition
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0123

Works and attributed material

Kind: oral defense · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Xiao Luan (蕭鸞) · Statement: he did not wish to compete over holding gate bars
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0150
Kind: oral maxim · Role: speaker · Statement: wealth is useless: incapable descendants squander it, while capable descendants need only one classic
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0151, nanqishu:053:s0152, nanqishu:053:s0153
Kind: oral refusal · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Wang Yun (王蘊) · Statement: refused to burden Wang Yun's upright reputation with a self-serving request
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0136
Kind: ritual opinion · Role: author · Other Person Id: Crown Prince of Song (宋太子) · Statement: Reviewed classical and Jin precedents for crown-prince betrothal gifts and urged correction by canonical standards.
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0125, nanqishu:053:s0126, nanqishu:053:s0127, nanqishu:053:s0128, nanqishu:053:s0129, nanqishu:053:s0130, nanqishu:053:s0131, nanqishu:053:s0132

Events and relationships

Kind: diplomatic-mission · Action: again sent as envoy to the north · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永明九年 · Western Year: AD 491
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0147
Kind: ritual-reform · Action: his opinion led officials to add jade scepters and two each of leopard, bear, and brown-bear skins
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0133
Kind: diplomatic-mission · Action: sent as envoy to the northern state · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永明三年 · Western Year: AD 485
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0138
Relation: subordinate-of · Person Id: Wang Yun (王蘊)
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0134
Relation: subordinate-of · Person Id: Wang Xuanmiao (王玄邈)
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0148

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: achieved diligent results in every commandery and never accumulated property · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0151, nanqishu:053:s0154