Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Grand General

Wen Jiao 溫嶠

Attested AD 317 - AD 329

Passages
2
Chapters
2
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Wen Jiao as a general, official, and scholar. This record brings together 2 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Wen Jiao 溫嶠 Wen Jiao
Given Jiao Jiao
Surname Wen Wen
Personal Wen Qiao 溫嶠 Wen Qiao

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • General
  • Official
  • Scholar

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 晉氏喪亂,播遷江左 · Western Interval: Start: AD 317 · End: AD 329
    Explicit event contextual date · chenshu:018:s0177
  • Source Date: Text: 永初元年 · Western Year: AD 420
    Explicit event contextual date · songshu:003:s0043

Career and standing

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

  • Kind: historian-comment · Role: subject · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0177

Events and relationships

  • Kind: military · Role: defender · Action: resisted-enemy · Label: resisted the enemy to guard the altars of state / 抗敵以衛社稷 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0177

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: plain-clothed scholar of gentry repute who rose by merit to the highest offices · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0177

References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 18Volume 18: Shen Zhong; Yuan Bi; Liu Zhongwei; Lu Shancai; Wang Zhi; Wei Zai · 1 passage
Book of Song, Chapter 3Volume 3 Annals 3: Emperor Wu 3 · 1 passage