Qin and Han · Official

Tian Ren 田仁

Attested BC 140 - BC 91

Passages
25
Chapters
2
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Tian Ren as an administrator, attendant, military officer, and official. This record brings together 25 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Tian Ren 田仁 Tian Ren
Personal name Ren Ren
Personal name Tian Ren 田仁 Tian Ren
Courtesy Tian Shaoqing 田少卿 Tian Shaoqing
Descriptive kinship youngest son of Tian Shu 少子
Descriptive kinship youngest son Ren 少子仁
Given Ren

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Attendant
  • Military Officer
  • Official

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 仁以壯健為衛將軍舍人 · Western Interval: Start: BC 140 · End: BC 120
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:104:s0061
  • Source Date: Text: 坐太子事 · Western Year: BC 91
  • Source Date: Text: 戾太子舉兵 · Western Year: BC 91
    Explicit · hanshu:046:s0140
  • Source Date: Text: 數從擊匈奴 · Western Interval: Start: BC 129 · End: BC 91
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:046:s0136

Family

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  • Child of Tian Shu (田叔)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
    Kinship Term: youngest son / 少子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Subject Relative Age: younger
    Kinship Term: youngest son / 少子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

  • Label: retainer of the General of the Guard / 衛將軍舍人
    Explicit · shiji:104:s0061
  • Label: chief clerk to the chancellor / 丞相長史 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · hanshu:046:s0137
  • Label: Commandant of the Capital Suburbs / 京輔都尉 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · shiji:104:s0065
  • Label: Director of Justice / 司直 · Action: appointed
  • Label: gentleman of the palace / 郎中 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · hanshu:046:s0137
  • Label: Gentleman of the Palace / 郎中 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · shiji:104:s0062
  • Label: metropolitan commandant / 京輔都尉 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · hanshu:046:s0138
  • Label: Senior Secretary to the Chancellor / 丞相長史 · Action: appointed
  • Label: superintendent of trials / 司直 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · hanshu:046:s0139
  • Status: lost-office · Action: entered
    Explicit · hanshu:046:s0137
  • Label: clan exterminated for abetting rebel / 坐縱反者族 · Action: executed
    Explicit · hanshu:046:s0140
  • Label: clan exterminated / 族死 · Action: executed
    Explicit · shiji:104:s0069

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: capable and unafraid of the powerful · Provenance: Mode: named-person · Speaker Person Id: Che (徹)
    Explicit · shiji:104:s0121

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 46Volume 37: Ji Bu, Luan Bu and Tian Shu · 4 passages
Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 104Biography of Tian Shu · 21 passages