Wei Yuanfu (韋元甫) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wei Yuanfu as an administrator and official. This record brings together 4 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	Wei Yuanfu	韋元甫	Wei Yuanfu
Surname	Wei	韋	Wei
Personal name	Wei Yuanfu	韋元甫	Wei Yuanfu
Given name	Yuanfu	元甫	Yuanfu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiutangshu:119:s0062

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: illness · Place: in office / 於位 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大歷六年八月 · Lunar Month: 8 · Western Year: AD 771
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0070

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 大歷六年八月 · Lunar Month: 8 · Western Year: AD 771
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0070
Source Date: Text: 大歷初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 766 · End: AD 768
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0067
Source Date: Text: 天寶中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 742 · End: AD 756
Strongly inferred · jiutangshu:119:s0063, jiutangshu:119:s0064

Career and standing

Label: Censor-in-Chief / 御史大夫 · Action: appointed · Concurrent: true
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0068
Label: Vice Director of the Right Department of the State Chancellery / 尚書右丞 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大歷初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 766 · End: AD 768
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0067
Label: Chief Administrator of Yangzhou / 揚州長史 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0068
Label: Huainan Military Governor and Observation Commissioner / 淮南節度觀察等使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0068
Label: Military Governor and Observation Commissioner of Zhexi West / 浙江西道都團練觀察等使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0066
Label: Prefect of Su / 蘇州刺史 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0066
Label: Requisition Officer / 支使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0064
Label: Warden of Baima in Hua Prefecture / 滑州白馬尉 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0063

Places and affiliations

Label: Tang / 唐 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · jiutangshu:119:s0062

Learning and skills

Skill: document drafting / 簡牘 · Level: renowned
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0065

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: careful conduct; quick in learning and action · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0062
Assessment: governed with lenience and simplicity · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0133
Assessment: non-disturbing government; affairs in reasonable order · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0069

References in the histories

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 119Volume 115 Biographies 65: Cui Qi, Zhao Guozhen, Cui Guan, Jing Kuo, Wei Yuanfu, Wei Shaoyou, Wei Boyu, Li Cheng · 4 passages

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韋元甫，少修謹，敏於學行。 From youth Wei Yuanfu cultivated careful conduct and was quick in both learning and action.

元甫精於簡牘，錫詳於訊覆，涉推誠待之，時謂「員推韋狀。」 Yuanfu excelled at drafting documents and Xi at interrogation; She trusted both openly, and contemporaries called them "Yuan pushes the case, Wei writes the brief."

元甫有器局，所蒞有聲，累遷蘇州刺史、浙江西道都團練觀察等使。 Yuanfu had breadth of vision; wherever he served he made a reputation, rising to prefect of Su and military governor and observation commissioner of Zhexi West circuit.

國珍守黔溪，瓘修禮法，括推誠馭下，元甫為政寬簡，少遊規檢集事，皆可稱者。 Guozhen held the Qian streams secure, Guan restored ritual and law, Kuo dealt sincerely with subordinates, Yuanfu governed with lenience and simplicity, and Shaoyou kept to regulations and brought affairs to completion—each has something to praise.