Song, Liao, and Jin · Military affairs commissioner after Zhang Bian

Wen Yanbo 文彥博

Attested AD 1065 - AD 1118

Passages: 8
Chapters: 6
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Wen Yanbo as an official and statesman. This record brings together 8 passages from 6 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wen Yanbo	文彥博	Wen Yanbo
Title	Grand Preceptor	太師	Taishi
Surname	Wen	文
Personal name	Wen Yanbo	文彥博	Wen Yanbo

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · songshi:013:s0123, songshi:110:s0123
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · songshi:014:s0027, songshi:118:s0037, songshi:120:s0155

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 元祐二年 · Western Year: AD 1087
Explicit · songshi:110:s0138
Source Date: Text: 元祐元年五月 · Western Year: AD 1086
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:118:s0037
Source Date: Text: 政和 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1111 · End: AD 1118
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:120:s0153, songshi:120:s0155
Source Date: Text: 治平二年 · Western Year: AD 1065
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:013:s0123
Source Date: Text: 治平四年正月戊辰 · Western Year: AD 1067
Explicit · songshi:014:s0027
Source Date: Text: 熙寧二年 · Western Year: AD 1069
Explicit · songshi:110:s0123
Source Date: Text: 熙寧六年 · Western Year: AD 1073
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:197:s0081, songshi:197:s0090

Career and standing

Label: military affairs commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 治平二年七月庚辰 · Western Year: AD 1065
Explicit · songshi:013:s0123
Label: minister of works / 司空 · Action: appointed
Explicit · songshi:014:s0277
Label: Acting Grand Commandant / 攝太尉 · Action: held
Explicit · songshi:110:s0123
Label: Grand Preceptor and Director of State Affairs / 太師平章軍國重事 · Action: held
Explicit · songshi:118:s0037
Label: Grand Preceptor / 太師 · Action: held
Explicit · songshi:110:s0138, songshi:120:s0155
Status: special-court-rank · Label: ordered to form a rank alone at audience / 獨班起居 · Action: granted
Explicit · songshi:118:s0037
Status: precedence · Label: rank above the chief counselors at classics lecture and joint reports / 序位在宰臣之上 · Action: granted
Explicit · songshi:118:s0038
Status: retired · Action: held
Explicit · songshi:120:s0155

Places and affiliations

Label: Song / 宋 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · songshi:118:s0037
Polity: Song / 宋 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · songshi:120:s0155

Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: participant · Action: attended-court
Explicit · songshi:120:s0155
Kind: opposition · Role: opponent · Action: opposed-chariot-proposal · Other Person Id: Zhou Shilong (周士隆)
Explicit · songshi:197:s0090

References in the histories

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History of Song, Chapter 13Volume 13 Annals 13: Yingzong · 1 passage

庚辰，張昪罷，以文彥博爲樞密使。 On gengchen, Zhang Bian fell and Wen Yanbo took military affairs.

History of Song, Chapter 14Volume 14 Annals 14: Shenzong 1 · 2 passages

戊辰，以韓琦守司空兼侍中，曾公亮行門下侍郎兼吏部尚書、進封英國公，文彥博行尚書左僕射、檢校司徒兼中書令，富弼改武甯軍節度使、進封鄭國公，曹佾改昭慶軍節度使、檢校太傅，張昪改河陽三城節度使，宗諤同中書門下平章事，改集慶軍節度使、檢校尚書左僕射，歐陽修、趙槩並加尚書左丞，仍參知政事，陳升之爲戶部侍郎，呂公弼爲刑部侍郎，允弼、允良並加守太保，弟東陽郡王顥進封昌王，鄠國公頵進封樂安郡王。 On wuchen the cabinet was reshaped: Han Qi, Zeng Gongliang, Wen Yanbo, Fu Bi, Cao Yi, Zhang Sheng, Zongnu, Ouyang Xiu, Zhao Gai, Chen Shengzhi, Lü Gongbi, and the princes received new ranks and posts.

壬寅，以曾公亮爲尚書左僕射，文彥博爲司空。 On renyin, Zeng Gongliang became left vice director and Wen Yanbo minister of works.

History of Song, Chapter 110Volume 110 Treatises 63: Rites 13 · 2 passages

熙寧二年，神宗尊皇太后曹氏為太皇太后，詣文德殿跪奉玉冊授攝太尉曾公亮、金寶授攝司徒韓絳，又跪奉皇太后高氏玉冊授攝太尉文彥博、金寶授攝司徒趙抃，禮畢，百官稱賀。 In Xining 2, 1069, Shenzong honored Empress Dowager Cao as grand empress dowager. At Wende Hall he knelt and presented the jade patent to Acting Grand Commandant Zeng Gongliang and the gold seal to Acting Minister over the Masses Han Jiang. He knelt again and presented the jade patent of Empress Dowager Gao to Acting Grand Commandant Wen Yanbo and the gold seal to Acting Minister over the Masses Zhao Bian. When the rites were complete, all officials offered congratulations.

未幾，太師文彥博等以時雨溥澍，秋稼有望，請舉行冊禮，凡三請乃從。 Before long, Grand Preceptor Wen Yanbo and others, noting that timely rain had abundantly moistened the earth and the autumn harvest gave promise, requested that the patent ceremony be performed. After three requests, permission was granted.

History of Song, Chapter 118Volume 118 Treatises 71: Rites 21 · 1 passage

元祐元年五月，詔：「太師平章軍國重事文彥博，已降旨令獨班起居。 In the fifth month of the first year of Yuanyou, an edict stated: "Grand Preceptor and Director of State Affairs Wen Yanbo has already been ordered by special edict to form a rank alone at audience.

History of Song, Chapter 120Volume 120 Treatises 73: Rites 23 · 1 passage

曹佾以中書令、節度充景靈宮使，韓絳以觀文殿大學士、吏部侍郎知大名府，致仕太師文彥博來朝，其大朝會班位儀物如之。 Cao Yi as Director of the Secretariat and military commissioner headed the Jingling Palace; Han Jiang as Academician of the Hall for Observing Culture and Vice Director of Personnel governed Daming; retired Grand Preceptor Wen Yanbo attended court—all retaining their great-audience rank, position, and regalia.

History of Song, Chapter 197Volume 197 Treatises 150: Military 11 · 1 passage

時周士隆上書論廣西、交阯事，請為車以禦象陣，文彥博非之。 Zhou Shilong then memorialized on Guangxi and Jiaozhi, proposing war chariots against elephant formations; Wen Yanbo objected.