Shi Xiaozhang (史孝章)

Overview

The translated histories identify Shi Xiaozhang as a family member, general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 19 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Shi Xiaozhang	史孝章	Shi Xiaozhang
Surname	Shi	史
Personal	Shi Xiaozhang	史孝章	Shǐ Xiàozhāng
Personal name	Xiaozhang	孝章	Xiaozhang
Given	Xiaozhang	孝章
Personal	Xiaozhang	孝章

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiutangshu:181:s0035
Value: male
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0037

Roles

Family Member
General
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開成三年十月 · Western Year: AD 838
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0051, jiutangshu:185:s0053

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 元和中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 806 · End: AD 820
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0036
Source Date: Text: 元和中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 806 · End: AD 820
Explicit event contextual date · jiutangshu:185:s0038
Source Date: Text: 開成三年十月 · Western Year: AD 838
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0051

Family

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Child of Shi Xiancheng (史憲誠)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: child
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological

Career and standing

Label: Acting headquarters adjutant / 攝府參軍 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0037
Label: deputy military governor / 節度副使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0042
Label: Deputy military governor / 節度副使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0040
Label: military governor of Fufang / 鄜坊節度使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0049
Label: Military governor of Yan-Fang / 鄜坊節度使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0047
Label: Minister of Public Works / 工部尚書 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0042
Label: Minister of Rites / 禮部尚書 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0044, jiutangshu:185:s0046
Title: Minister of Rites / 禮部尚書 · Action: held
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0046
Label: Right Vice Director / 右僕射 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0053
Title: Right Vice Director / 右僕射 · Action: posthumously-held
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0053
Title: General of the Right Golden Guard / 右金吾衛將軍 · Action: recalled-to
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0048
Label: Right Vice Director / 右僕射 · Action: posthumous
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0051

Places and affiliations

Label: Tang / 唐 · Relation: served
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0035
Polity: Tang / 唐 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · jiutangshu:185:s0002
Place: Fufang / 鄜坊 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0049
Place: Xiang-Wei-Chan command / 相衛澶 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0046

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: remonstrator · Other Person Id: Shi Xiancheng (史憲誠) · Action: admonished
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0041
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: pacified-Cangjing
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0042

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: loyal and law-abiding · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0052
Assessment: loyal remonstrator · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0039, jiutangshu:181:s0040

References in the histories

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 181Volume 177 Biographies 127: Cui Shenyou, Cui Gong, Lu Jun, Pei Xiu, Yang Shou, Wei Baoheng, Lu Yan, Xiao Houzi, Liu Zhan, Liu Zhuan, Cao Que, Bi Xian, Du Shenquan, Liu Ye, Dou Luzhan · 9 passages

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憲誠心不自安，乃遣子孝章入覲，又飛章願以所管奉命。 Uneasy in his own mind, Xiancheng sent his son Xiaozhang to court and dispatched urgent memorials offering to place his command under the throne's orders.

憲誠子孝章孝章，幼聰悟好學。 Xiancheng's son Xiaozhang was clever from childhood and devoted to study.

孝章倡言願效文職，醞奇之，令攝府參軍。 Xiaozhang spoke up saying he wished to serve in the civil branch; Yun was impressed and appointed him acting headquarters adjutant.

及憲誠領節鉞，改士曹參軍、兼監察御史，賜緋。 When Xiancheng took the command baton, Xiaozhang was made Staff Officer of the Personnel Section and concurrent Investigating Censor, with scarlet robes bestowed on him.

孝章以父在鎮多違朝旨，嘗雪涕極諫，備陳逆順之理。 Seeing that his father at his post often defied the court, Xiaozhang once wept as he remonstrated with all his strength, laying out in full the difference between loyalty and treason.

上知憲誠之入覲，自孝章之謀，遂加禮部尚書，分相、衞、澶三州別爲一鎮，俾孝章領之。 The emperor understood that Xiancheng's wish to attend court came from Xiaozhang's counsel; he therefore made Xiaozhang Minister of Rites, carved out Xiang, Wei, and Chan as a separate command, and put Xiaozhang in charge of it.

孝章未到鎮，憲誠遇害。 Before Xiaozhang could reach his new command, Xiancheng was killed.

上以孝章有忠節，起復爲右金吾衞將軍。 The emperor, honoring Xiaozhang's loyal conduct, recalled him from mourning to be General of the Right Jinwu Guard.

孝章歷三鎮，雖無異績，而謹身畏法，以保初終。 Xiaozhang held three commands; though he won no striking victories, he kept himself within the law and preserved his position from first to last.

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 185Volume 181 Biographies 131: Shi Xiancheng, Zi Xiaozhang, He Jintao, Han Yunzhong, Li Yanzhen, Luo Hongxin · 10 passages

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