Shifang 室昉

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0009, liaoshi:011:s0124, liaoshi:080:s0040, liaoshi:082:s0098
• Value: male
  Strongly inferred · liaoshi:059:s0032, liaoshi:079:s0002

Roles

• Administrator
• Aristocrat
• Historian
• Official
• Scholar
• Statesman

Career and standing

• Label: associate chief administrator under the Gate / 同政事門下平章事 · Action: added
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0012
• Label: chief administrator / 政事令 · Action: added
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0024
• Label: supervisor of the national history / 監修國史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾亨初 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 979
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0013
• Label: registrar to the Nanjing retention commissioner / 南京留守判官 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天祿中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 947 · End: AD 951
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0007
• Label: Director of Imperial Edicts / 知制誥 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗入汴受冊禮 · Western Year: AD 946
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0006
• Label: patrol officer in Lulong / 盧龍巡捕官 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 會同初 · Western Year: AD 938
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0005
• Label: commissioner of military affairs / 樞密使 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0012
• Label: deputy commissioner of military affairs / 樞密副使 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0011
• Label: participant in governance / 參知政事 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0011
• Label: Zhongjing retention commissioner / 中京留守 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0027
• Label: Secretariat drafter / 政事舍人 · Action: concurrent · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保寧間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 969 · End: AD 979
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0009
• Label: northern chancellery chancellor / 北府宰相 · Action: concurrent
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0012
• Label: Chief Councillor / 政事令 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
  Explicit · liaoshi:011:s0145
• Label: Chancellor / 宰相 · Action: held
  Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0009
• Label: Chief Administrator / 政事令 · Action: held
  Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0032
• Label: Commissioner of Military Affairs and Chief Councillor / 樞密使兼政事令 · Action: held
  Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0024
• Label: Director of the Imperial Secretariat / 尚書令 · Action: posthumously-appointed
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0029
• Label: Hanlin Academician / 翰林學士 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 應歷間 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Western Interval: Start: AD 951 · End: AD 969
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0008
• Label: Minister of Works / 工部尚書 · Action: promoted
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0011
• Label: deputy Nanjing retention commissioner / 南京副留守 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保寧間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 969 · End: AD 979
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0010
• Title: Duke of Zheng / 鄭國公 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 990
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0019
• Label: Father of the State / 尚父 · Action: added
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0027
• Label: excused from bowing; granted folding stool and staff / 入朝免拜，賜几杖 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 990
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0019
• Label: court suspended two days / 輟朝二日 · Action: granted
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0029
• Label: permitted to enter court by palanquin / 許乘輦入朝 · Action: granted
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0026
• Status: retired · Action: retired
  Explicit · liaoshi:082:s0104

Places and affiliations

• Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
  Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0009, liaoshi:011:s0124, liaoshi:059:s0032, liaoshi:079:s0005, liaoshi:079:s0006
• Place: Nanjing / 南京
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0002
• Place: Nanjing / 南京 · Relation: resided-at · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 990
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0019

Learning and skills

• Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 會同初 · Western Year: AD 938
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0005

Works and attributed material

• Work: Veritable Records / 實錄 · Relation: author · Quantity: Scrolls: 20
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0024
• Work: his own tomb inscription / 自誌其墓 · Relation: author
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0031
• Work: Veritable Records / 實錄 · Relation: compiler
  Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0040
• Kind: memorial · Role: speaker · Action: requested-rent-remission-for-western-Shanxi
  Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0032
• Kind: memorial · Role: author · Work: Against Dissipation chapter of the Documents / 尚書·無逸篇 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和元年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 983
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0015
• Kind: memorial · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
  Explicit · liaoshi:011:s0145
• Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Yelü Longxu (耶律隆緒)
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0021, liaoshi:079:s0022

Events and relationships

• Kind: political · Role: petitioner · Action: again requested to relinquish office · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 990
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0018, liaoshi:079:s0019
• Kind: public-works · Role: director · Action: mobilized laborers to repair mountain passes · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二年秋 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 984
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0016
• Kind: ritual · Role: overseer · Action: oversaw investiture rites · Place: Bian / 汴 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗入汴受冊禮 · Western Year: AD 946
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0006
• Kind: political · Role: petitioner · Action: requested relief from concurrent office · Outcome: refused
  Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0024
• Kind: political · Role: petitioner · Action: requested retirement · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和元年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 983 · Negated: false
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0014
• Kind: administrative · Role: proposer · Action: requested-remission-of-yearly-rent
  Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0032
• Relation: recommended-successor · Person Id: Han Derang (韓德讓) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 九年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 991
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0025
• Relation: official-under · Person Id: Yelü Longxu (耶律隆緒)
  Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0032
• Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Han Derang (韓德讓)
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0017
• Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Yelü Xiezhen (耶律斜軫)
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0017

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: humane remonstrator who presented Against Dissipation · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0089
• Item: sable quilt and bedding / 貂皮衾褥 · Relation: bestowed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 九年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 991
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0026
• Item: six hundred bolts of silk / 帛六百匹 · Relation: bestowed
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0024

Source notes

• Statement: Warned against extravagant burial in his final instructions.
  Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0030