Tian Rengong (田仁恭)

Overview

The translated histories identify Tian Rengong as an administrator, aristocrat, general, and official. This record brings together 6 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	Tian Rengong	田仁恭	Tian Rengong
Courtesy name	Changgui	長貴
Title	Duke of Guanguo	觀國公
Posthumous name	Jing	敬
Given name	Rengong	仁恭
Surname	Tian	田
Personal name	Tian Rengong	田仁恭
Personal	Tian Rengong	田仁恭	Tián Réngōng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Value: male
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Roles

Administrator
Aristocrat
General
Official

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 歲餘 · Qualitative: more than a year later · Manner: unspecified · Place: in office / 官 · Age: 47
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Manner: death prompted Tian Demao's mourning
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Age

Age: 47 · At Event: death
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 宣帝時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 578 · End: AD 579
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Source Date: Text: 從武帝平齊 · Western Year: AD 577
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Source Date: Text: 開皇初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 600
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Source Date: Text: 高祖受禪 · Western Year: AD 581
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Family

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Child of Shishi (世師)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Inverse: true · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Child of Hong (弘)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Parent of Demao (德懋)
Kinship Term: second son / 次子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Parent of Shishi (世師)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Parent of Tian Demao (田德懋)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

Label: Junior Vice Minister of War / 小司馬 · Action: appointed · Authority Person Id: Emperor Wen (高祖) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 高祖為丞相 · Western Year: AD 580
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Label: Grand General of the Right Martial Guard / 右武衛大將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 未幾 · Qualitative: before long
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Label: Grand Master with the Opening of a Government Office with Equal Honor to the Three Excellencies / 開府儀同三司 · Action: appointed · Reason: again for his father's merit · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 後數載 · Qualitative: several years later
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Label: Area Commander of Youzhou / 幽州總管 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 從武帝平齊 · Western Year: AD 577
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Label: Grand Preceptor to the Crown Prince / 太子太師 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 高祖受禪 · Western Year: AD 581
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Label: Senior Clerk for Ritual Forms / 掌式中士 · Action: appointed · Polity: Zhou / 周
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Label: Senior Opening of a Government Office / 上開府 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 從武帝平齊 · Western Year: AD 577
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Label: Minister of Works / 司空 · Action: posthumously-granted
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Label: Grand General / 大將軍 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 高祖為丞相 · Western Year: AD 580
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Label: Clerk of Central and External Military Affairs / 中外兵曹 · Action: recruited · Authority Person Id: Yuwen Hu (宇文護)
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Label: Clerk of the Central and External Offices / 中外府掾 · Action: transferred
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Title: Duke of Yanmen Commandery / 雁門郡公 · Action: advanced · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宣帝時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 578 · End: AD 579
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Title: Duke of Xiyang Commandery / 淅陽郡公 · Action: advanced · Fief Households Increase: 2000 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 從武帝平齊 · Western Year: AD 577
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Title: Duke of Guan State / 觀國公 · Action: advanced · Total Fief Households: 5000
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Title: Viscount of Chunyin / 鶉陰子 · Action: enfeoffed · Reason: his father Hong's military merit
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Title: Duke of Guanguo / 觀國公 · Action: held
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Title: Senior Pillar of the State / 上柱國 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 高祖受禪 · Western Year: AD 581
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Title: Pillar of the State / 柱國 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 高祖為丞相 · Western Year: AD 580
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Title: Duke of Xiangwu County / 襄武縣公 · Action: re-enfeoffed · Fief Households: 500
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Places and affiliations

Place: Changcheng in Pingliang / 平涼長城
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Learning and skills

Label: passed the classics examination / 明經 · Polity: Zhou / 周
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: subordinate-commander · Action: campaigned-with · With Person Id: Emperor Wu (武帝) · Place: Qi / 齊 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 從武帝平齊 · Western Year: AD 577
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Kind: military · Role: subordinate-commander · Action: campaigned-with · With Person Id: Yuwen Hu (宇文護) · Detail: won military merit many times
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Kind: military · Role: subordinate-commander · Action: defeated · With Person Id: Wei Xiaokuan (韋孝寬) · Other Person Id: Yuchi Jiong (尉遲迥) · Place: Xiangzhou / 相州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 高祖為丞相 · Western Year: AD 580
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Kind: military · Role: meritorious participant · Action: earned military merit that benefited his son
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Kind: administrative · Role: supervisor · Action: oversaw-construction-of · Detail: the ancestral temple and altars of soil and grain · Authority Person Id: Emperor Wen (高祖)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: greatly favored and trusted; the Emperor once visited his residence, feasting with the utmost joy and granting exceptionally generous gifts · Provenance: Mode: narrator-report
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Kind: character · Statement: magnanimous and humane by nature, with breadth of vision
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References in the histories

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Book of Sui, Chapter 54Volume 54 Biographies 19: Wang Zhangshu, Li Yan, Yi Louqian, Tian Rengong, Yuan Heng, Du Zheng, Li Che, Cui Peng · 5 passages

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○田仁恭 Tian Rengong

田仁恭，字長貴，平涼長城人也。 Tian Rengong, styled Changgui, came from Changcheng in Pingliang.

仁恭性寬仁，有局度。 Rengong was magnanimous and humane by nature, with breadth of vision.

贈司空，諡曰敬。 He was posthumously invested as minister of works with the posthumous name Jing.

高祖以其俱佐命功臣，特加崇貴，親禮與仁恭等。 Because they had all aided his rise as founding ministers, Emperor Wen specially honored them and received them with the same personal courtesy as Rengong and the others.

Book of Sui, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 37: Filial Piety · 1 passage

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田德懋，觀國公仁恭之子也。 Tian Demao was a son of Rengong, Duke of Guanguo.