Song, Liao, and Jin · Administrator and Official

Tan Cheng 譚澄

Attested AD 1235 - AD 1270

Passages
14
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Tan Cheng as an administrator, envoy, judge, and military officer. This record brings together 14 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Tan Cheng 譚澄 Tan Cheng
Courtesy Yanqing 彥清 Yanqing

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Uncertain

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Envoy
  • Judge
  • Military Officer
  • Official

Life and dates

Death

  • Cause: illness · Age: 58 · Timing: before reaching the new post
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0038

Age

  • Age: 19 · Reckoning: stated · Context: when appointed magistrate of Jiaocheng
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0015
  • Age: 58 · Reckoning: stated · Context: at death
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0038

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 至元二年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1265
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0030
  • Source Date: Text: 至元七年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 1270
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0031
  • Source Date: Text: 丁巳 · Western Year: AD 1257
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0025, yuanshi:191:s0026
  • Source Date: Text: 中統元年 · Western Year: AD 1260
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0027
  • Source Date: Text: 乙未 · Western Year: AD 1235
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0018, yuanshi:191:s0019
  • Source Date: Text: 壬子 · Western Year: AD 1252
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0022
  • Source Date: Text: 甲寅 · Western Year: AD 1254
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0023

Family

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  • Child of Tan Zirong (譚資榮)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Tan Kexiu (譚克修)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Sibling of Tan Shanfu (譚山阜)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Role: elder brother · Object Role: younger brother · Subject Relative Age: elder
  • Sibling of Tan Ziyong (譚資用)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Role: elder brother · Object Role: younger brother · Subject Relative Age: elder

Career and standing

  • Label: administrator of Jingzhao / 京兆總管 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元七年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 1270
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0031
  • Label: Vice Minister of Agriculture / 司農少卿 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元七年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 1270
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0031
  • Label: retainer at Kublai's princely headquarters / 留籓府 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 甲寅 · Western Year: AD 1254
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0023
  • Label: Deputy Commander-in-Chief and Associate Commissioner of the Pacification Commission / 副都元帥、同知宣慰使司事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0037
  • Label: Intendant of the Judicial Investigation Commission for Shaanxi-Sichuan Circuit / 陝西四川道提刑按察使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0032
  • Label: magistrate of Jiaocheng / 交城令 · Action: inherited
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0014, yuanshi:191:s0015
  • Label: defender of Chengdu / 守成都 · Action: ordered to replace · Other Person Id: Yen Zhongfan (嚴忠范)
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0035
  • Label: administrator of Huaimeng Circuit / 懷孟路總管 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中統元年 · Western Year: AD 1260
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0027
  • Label: administrator of Henan Circuit / 河南路總管 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元二年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1265
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0030
  • Label: administrator of Pingluan Circuit / 平灤路總管 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元二年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1265
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0030
  • Action: punished powerful local ringleaders according to law
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0017

Places and affiliations

  • Place: Huailai in Dexing / 德興懷來 · Relation: native-of
    Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0009

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 191Volume 191 Biographies 78: Virtuous Officials 1 · 14 passages
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遣阿藍答兒往京兆，大集官吏，置計局百四十二條以考核之，罪者甚眾，世祖每遣左丞闊闊與澄周旋其間，以彌縫其缺，及親入朝，事乃釋。 Möngke dispatched Ala'er to Jingzhao, summoned a mass gathering of officials, and imposed one hundred and forty-two audit regulations by which to investigate them; a great many were found guilty. Kublai repeatedly sent Left Assistant Minister Kökö and Cheng to intervene and mitigate the damage, and only when he went to court in person was the matter finally settled.