Qin and Han · Official and Administrator

Wei Ba 魏霸

Died AD 111

Passages
8
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Wei Ba as an administrator and official. This record brings together 8 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Wei Ba 魏霸 Wei Ba
Given Ba 霸 Ba
Courtesy Qiaoqing 喬卿 Qiaoqing
Surname Wei 魏 Wei
Personal name Wei Ba 魏霸 Wei Ba

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Official

Life and dates

Death

  • Place: Unknown · In Office: true · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永初五年 · Western Year: AD 111
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0304

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 延平元年 · Western Year: AD 106
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0302
  • Source Date: Text: 建初中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 76 · End: AD 84
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0222
  • Source Date: Text: 明年，以病致仕 · Western Year: AD 107
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0303
  • Source Date: Text: 明年，和帝崩 · Western Year: AD 105
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0227
  • Source Date: Text: 永元十六年 · Western Year: AD 104
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0226
  • Source Date: Text: 永初五年 · Western Year: AD 111
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0304

Family

  • Kinship Role: parents · Count: 2 · Note: died while Ba was young
    Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0221
  • Kinship Role: brothers · Note: lived together in harmony · Quantity: plural
    Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0221

Career and standing

  • Label: grand administrator of Julu / 巨鹿太守 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 和帝時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 88 · End: AD 105
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0222
  • Label: Grand Master of Ceremonies / 太常 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 延平元年 · Western Year: AD 106 · Other Person Id: Yin Qin (尹勤) · Note: succeeded Yin Qin
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0302
  • Label: Household Counselor / 光祿大夫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明年 · Western Year: AD 107
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0303
  • Label: Superintendent of Imperial Works / 將作大匠 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永元十六年 · Western Year: AD 104
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0226
  • Label: Commandant of Changle / 長樂衛尉 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永初五年 · Western Year: AD 111
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0304
  • Label: Household Counselor / 光祿大夫 · Action: reappointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永初五年 · Western Year: AD 111
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0304
  • Status: retired · Action: entered · Reason: illness · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明年 · Western Year: AD 107
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0303
  • Status: retired · Action: requested · Reason: illness · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永初五年 · Western Year: AD 111
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0304

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: Filial and Incorrupt / 孝廉 · Action: recommended · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建初中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 76 · End: AD 84
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0222

Works and attributed material

  • Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Text: If you were humiliated, the fault is mine as superintendent. / 令諸卿被辱，大匠過也。
    Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0229

Events and relationships

  • Kind: administration · Role: superintendent · Action: consoled clerks under eunuch pressure; crews doubled effort · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 盛冬 · Western Year: AD 105
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0228, houhanshu:028:s0229, houhanshu:028:s0230
  • Kind: administration · Role: administrator · Action: corrected then dismissed errant clerks
    Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0224
  • Kind: career · Role: official · Action: eight promotions · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建初中…和帝時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 76 · End: AD 105
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0222
  • Kind: administration · Role: administrator · Action: ended mutual denunciations by praising strengths
    Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0225
  • Kind: construction · Role: supervisor · Action: supervised construction of Shun Mausoleum · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明年（永元十七年） · Western Year: AD 105 · Place: Shun Mausoleum / 順陵
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0227
  • Relation: successor-of · Person Id: Yin Qin (尹勤) · Context: 太常
    Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0302

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: governed with plain honesty and lenience · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0223
  • Assessment: lenient and forbearing in governance · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0280

References in the histories

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Book of Later Han, Chapter 28Volume 25: Biography of Zhuo, Lu, Wei, Liu · 8 passages
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