Tian Zi (田滋) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Tian Zi as an administrator, judge, and official. This record brings together 7 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	Tian Zi	田滋	Tian Zi
Courtesy	Rongfu	榮甫	Rongfu
Posthumous	Zhuangsu	莊肅	Zhuangsu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

Administrator
Judge
Official

Life and dates

Death

Cause: illness · Status: died in office
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0107

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 至元十二年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 12 · Western Year: AD 1275
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0090
Source Date: Text: 至元十三年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 13 · Western Year: AD 1276
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0091
Source Date: Text: 至元二年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1265
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0089
Source Date: Text: 大德二年 · Western Year: AD 1298
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0095
Source Date: Text: 大德十年 · Western Year: AD 1306
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:191:s0102

Career and standing

Label: investigating censor / 監察御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元十二年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 12 · Western Year: AD 1275
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0090
Label: clerk of the Censorate / 御史臺掾 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元二年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1265
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0089
Label: Vice Administrator of the Shaanxi Branch Secretariat / 陝西行省參知政事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大德十年 · Western Year: AD 1306
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0102
Label: administrative secretary of the Bianliang Circuit headquarters / 汴梁路總管府知事 · Action: held
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0089
Label: administrator of Henan Circuit / 河南路總管 · Action: held
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0094
Label: salt transport commissioner of Lianghuai / 兩淮鹽運使 · Action: held
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0094
Label: Vice Administrator of the Henan Branch Secretariat / 河南行省參知政事 · Action: posthumously granted
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0108
Label: attendant censor of the traveling Censorate / 行御史臺侍御史 · Action: promoted
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0093
Label: surveillance commissioner of Zhexi / 浙西廉訪使 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大德二年 · Western Year: AD 1298
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0095
Label: administrator of Jinan Circuit / 濟南路總管 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大德十年 · Western Year: AD 1306
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0102
Title: Duke of Kaifeng Commandery / 開封郡公 · Action: posthumously enfeoffed
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0108
Label: Senior Grand Master of the Palace / 通奉大夫 · Action: posthumously granted
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0108

Places and affiliations

Place: Kaifeng / 開封 · Relation: native-of
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0088

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Provenance: Mode: memorial · Speaker Person Id: Tian Zi (田滋)
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0091
Kind: prayer for rain · Role: speaker · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Tian Zi (田滋)
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0103, yuanshi:191:s0104
Kind: prayer · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Zhang Yu (張彧) · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Tian Zi (田滋)
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0097

Events and relationships

Kind: famine-relief · Role: administrator · Action: distributed over five thousand shi of wheat as seed loans
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0105, yuanshi:191:s0106
Kind: institutional-policy · Role: proposer · Action: proposed a traveling Censorate for newly submitted Jiangnan
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0091, yuanshi:191:s0092
Kind: judicial · Role: investigator · Action: uncovered the false corruption accusation against Zhang Yu
Explicit · yuanshi:191:s0096, yuanshi:191:s0097, yuanshi:191:s0098, yuanshi:191:s0099, yuanshi:191:s0100, yuanshi:191:s0101

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 191Volume 191 Biographies 78: Virtuous Officials 1 · 7 passages

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田滋，字榮甫，開封人。 Tian Zi, styled Rongfu, came from Kaifeng.

十三年，宋平，滋建言：「江南新附，民情未安，加以官吏侵漁，宜立行御史臺以鎮之。」 In the thirteenth year, after the Song was pacified, Zi submitted a memorial: "The newly submitted Jiangnan region has a populace not yet at ease, and officials are preying on them. A traveling Censorate should be established to keep order there."

有縣尹張彧者，被誣以贓，獄成，滋審之，但俯首泣而不語。 A county magistrate named Zhang Yu had been falsely accused of corruption. When the case was concluded, Zi examined him, but Zhang only bowed his head and wept without speaking.

滋以為疑，明日齋沐，詣城隍祠禱曰：「張彧坐事有冤狀，願神相滋，明其誣。」 Zi found this suspicious. The next day, after fasting and bathing, he went to the City God shrine and prayed: "Zhang Yu's case bears the marks of injustice. I pray the spirit assist me in revealing the false accusation."

時陝西不雨三年，道過西嶽，因禱曰：「滋奉命來參省事，而安西不雨者三年，民飢而死，滋將何歸！ Shaanxi had gone three years without rain. Passing Mount Hua on the road, he prayed: "I have been ordered to take up provincial duties, yet Anxi has had no rain for three years and the people are starving to death—where shall I return!

滋即開倉，以麥五千餘石給小民之無種者，俾來歲收成以償官，民大悅。 Zi immediately opened the granaries and distributed more than five thousand shi of wheat to smallholders who had no seed grain, allowing them to repay the government from the next year's harvest. The people were greatly pleased.

贈通奉大夫、河南行省參知政事，追封開封郡公，諡莊肅。 He was posthumously granted the title of Senior Grand Master of the Palace and Vice Administrator of the Henan Branch Secretariat, enfeoffed as Duke of Kaifeng Commandery, and given the posthumous title Zhuangsu.