Sikong Ting (司空頲)

Overview

The translated histories identify Sikong Ting as an official and writer. This record brings together 11 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	Sikong Ting	司空頲	Sikong Ting
Personal name	Si Kongting	司空頲	Si Kongting
Surname	Sikong	司空	Sikong
Personal name	Sikong Ting	司空頲	Sikong Ting
Given name	Ting	頲	Ting

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:069:s0074, jiuwudaishi:071:s0025

Roles

Official
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution · Place: army gate / 軍門 · Date Context: Western Year: AD 915 · Source Date: Text: 頲有侄在梁，遣家奴以書召之，都虞候張裕擒其家奴，以謂通於梁，遂見殺。
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0037, jiuwudaishi:071:s0040
Manner: executed / 誅
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:069:s0075

Attested activity

Western Year: AD 915 · Source Date: Text: 及張彥復脅賀德倫降於唐，德倫遣頲先奉狀太原。
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0032
Source Date: Text: 唐僖宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 873 · End: AD 888
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:071:s0026
Source Date: Text: 莊宗平定魏博 · Western Year: AD 915
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:069:s0073, jiuwudaishi:069:s0074
Western Year: AD 915 · Source Date: Text: 頲有侄在梁，遣家奴以書召之，都虞候張裕擒其家奴，以謂通於梁，遂見殺。
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0037

Family

Kin of Nephew of Si Kongting (司空頲之侄)
Kinship Term: nephew / 侄 · Subject Role: nephew · Object Role: uncle

Career and standing

Status: execution · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang (後唐莊宗) · Date Context: Western Year: AD 915 · Source Date: Text: 揖令歸第，是日族誅於軍門。）〉
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0040

Places and affiliations

Place: Beizhou / 貝州 · Relation: native
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0025

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0034, jiuwudaishi:071:s0035

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: envoy · Action: presented-submission · Place: Taiyuan / 太原
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0032

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 69Volume 69 Book of Later Tang 45: Biographies 21: Zhang Xian, Wang Zhengyan, Hu Zhuang, Cui Yisun, Meng Hu, Sun Yue, Zhang Yanlang, Liu Yanhao, Liu Yanlang · 2 passages

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嘗為同職司空頲所淩，正言降心下之。 He was once bullied by his colleague Sikong Ting; Zhengyan humbled himself and submitted to him.

莊宗初至，裝謁見，求假官，司空頲以其居官貪濁，不得調者久之。 When Zhuangzong first arrived, Zhuang called on him and sought a provisional appointment; Sikong Ting, because Zhuang had been corrupt in office, long kept him from receiving a transfer.

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 · 9 passages

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司空頲，貝州人。 Si Kongting came from Beizhou.

羅紹威為節度副大使，頲以所業幹之，幕客公乘億為延譽，羅宏信署為府參軍，辟館驛巡官。 He sought patronage from Luo Shaowei, vice commissioner of the circuit; the staff member Gongcheng Yi vouched for him, and Luo Hongxin made him a staff adjutant and post-station inspector.

問孰可草奏者，有言頲，羅王時書記，乃馳騎召之。 Asked who could write the memorial, someone named Ting, formerly secretary to the Luo princes, and riders were sent at once to fetch him.

頲揮筆成文，詆斥梁君臣，彥甚喜，為判官。 Ting wrote at speed, the draft lashing out at Liang sovereign and ministers; Zhang Yan was delighted and kept him as his secretary.

及張彥復脅賀德倫降於唐，德倫遣頲先奉狀太原。 When Zhang Yan once more forced He Delun to surrender to Tang, Delun sent Ting ahead to Taiyuan with the formal submission.

莊宗仍以頲為判官，後以頲權軍府事。 Zhuangzong kept him as secretary and later entrusted him with authority over the military headquarters.

頲有侄在梁，遣家奴以書召之，都虞候張裕擒其家奴，以謂通於梁，遂見殺。 When he sent a household slave with a letter to summon a nephew serving in Liang, Chief Inspector Zhang Yu seized the slave on suspicion of treasonous contact, and Ting was put to death.

〈（《通鑒》：晉王責頲曰：「自吾得魏博，庶事悉以委公，公何得見欺如是，獨不可先相示耶！」 (The 《Comprehensive Mirror》 records that the Prince of Jin rebuked him: "Since I took Weibo I have entrusted you with everything—how could you deceive me like this? Could you not have told me first?!"

揖令歸第，是日族誅於軍門。）〉 He dismissed him to his quarters, and that same day Ting and his whole clan were executed at the army gate.)〉