Toudan Wanseng (徒單頑僧)

Overview

Toudan Wanseng was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1217 宣宗興定元年
Directly stated · History of Jin 54, passage 127

Places and affiliations

Polity Jin 金 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · History of Jin 54, passage 127

Works and attributed material

Memorial · Author · With Emperor Xuanzong (宣宗) · Mode quotation Speaker Toudan Wanseng (徒單頑僧)
Directly stated · History of Jin 54, passages 127-130

Events and relationships

Proposed enfeoffment limits
AD 1217 宣宗興定元年 · Political · Proposer · With Emperor Xuanzong (宣宗) · Summary Proposed barring non-princes and non-first-rank functional officials from dukedoms and reducing already-enfeoffed men to secondary second-rank protocol 非親王子及職一品餘人不許封公，已封者降從二品之制 · Mode quotation Speaker Toudan Wanseng (徒單頑僧)
Directly stated · History of Jin 54, passages 127-130
Relation Memorialist to · Person Emperor Xuanzong (宣宗)
Directly stated · History of Jin 54, passages 127, 131

Assessments and attributes

Assessment criticized-devaluation-of-office-titles · Topic merit promotions and honorary ranks 以勞進階與散官極品 · Mode quotation Speaker Toudan Wanseng (徒單頑僧)
Directly stated · History of Jin 54, passages 127-128

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · History of Jin 54, passage 127

References in the histories

History of Jin, Chapter 54Volume 54 Treatises 35: Selection of Officials 4: Ministry Selection, Provincial Selection, Honest Inspectors, Recommendations, Compensation for Achievements and Perpetual Faults · 1 passage

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宣宗興定元年，徒單頑僧言：「兵興以來，恩命數出，以勞進階者比年尤多。 In Xingding 1 (1217) under Emperor Xuanzong, Toudan Wanseng said, "Since the wars began, grace appointments have multiplied, and merit promotions in recent years are especially numerous.