Tao Jun (陶鈞) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Tao Jun as an official. This record brings together 3 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Tao Jun	陶鈞	Táo Jūn

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jinshi:045:s0141

Roles

Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 大定二十六年頃 · Western Year: AD 1186
Explicit event contextual date · jinshi:045:s0141

Career and standing

Label: Investigating Censor / 監察御史 · Action: held
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Status: beaten · Action: sentenced · Label: sixty strokes / 杖六十
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Events and relationships

Kind: disciplinary · Role: offender · Action: brought-courtesans-into-forbidden-park
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Relation: friend-of · Person Id: Yan Shu (閻恕)
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References in the histories

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History of Jin, Chapter 45Volume 45 Treatises 26: Punishment · 3 passages

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監察御史陶鈞以攜妓游北苑，歌飲池島間，迫近殿廷，提控官石玠聞而發之。 Investigating Censor Tao Jun was found to have escorted courtesans through the Northern Park, singing and drinking among its ponds and islets in proximity to the palace halls; Surveillance Officer Shi Jie heard of it and reported the affair.

鈞令其友閻恕屬玠得緩。 Tao Jun had his friend Yan Shu intercede with Shi Jie to secure lenient handling.

詔以鈞耳目之官，攜妓入禁苑，無上下之分，杖六十，玠、恕皆坐之。 An edict ruled that Tao Jun, as an imperial censor, had violated the distinction of rank by bringing courtesans into the forbidden park and sentenced him to sixty strokes of the staff; Shi Jie and Yan Shu were also convicted.