Xie Tong (謝瞳) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xie Tong as an administrator, general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 8 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xie Tong	謝瞳	Xie Tong
Given	Tong	瞳	Tong
Surname	Xie	謝	Xie
Personal name	Xie Tong	謝瞳	Xie Tong
Courtesy name	Ziming	子明	Ziming

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:020:s0001

Roles

Administrator
General
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Death

Place: Hua / 滑
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0019

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 中和前後 · Western Year: AD 884
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:016:s0090
Source Date: Text: 唐咸通末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 873 · End: AD 874
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:020:s0002
Source Date: Text: 廣明初 · Western Year: AD 880
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:020:s0003
Source Date: Text: 開平初 · Western Year: AD 907
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:020:s0020
Source Date: Text: 龍紀二年 · Western Year: AD 890
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:020:s0017

Career and standing

Label: Bozhou regimental commissioner / 亳州團練使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 龍紀二年 · Western Year: AD 890
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0017
Label: acting Director of the Palace Farms / 檢校屯田員外郎 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0012
Label: prefect of Lingzhou / 陵州刺史 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0013
Label: vice-commissioner of the Xuanyi army / 宣義軍節度副使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0018
Label: Grand Preceptor (posthumous) / 司徒 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平初 · Western Year: AD 907
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0020

Places and affiliations

Polity Name: Later Liang · Relation: served-or-associated
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:020:s0001
Polity Name: Tang · Relation: served-or-associated
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:020:s0001
Place: Fuzhou / 福州
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0001

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar examination candidacy / 舉進士 · Action: attempted
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0002

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: the Founder (太祖)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0006, jiuwudaishi:020:s0007, jiuwudaishi:020:s0008, jiuwudaishi:020:s0009

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: advisor · Action: urged-defection · Other Person Id: the Founder (太祖) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 廣明初 · Western Year: AD 880
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:020:s0006, jiuwudaishi:020:s0007, jiuwudaishi:020:s0008, jiuwudaishi:020:s0009, jiuwudaishi:020:s0010
Kind: political · Role: adviser · Action: urged-return · Other Person Id: Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:016:s0090

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 16Volume 16 Book of Later Liang 16: Biographies 6: Ge Congzhou, Xie Yanzhang, He Zhen, Zhang Guiba, Zhang Guihou, Zhang Guibian · 1 passage

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〈（《通鑒》云：溫見巢兵勢日蹙，知其將亡，親將胡真、謝瞳勸溫歸國。）〉 (The 《Zizhi Tongjian》 says: Wen, seeing Chao's power daily wane and knowing he would fall, was urged by his trusted generals Hu Zhen and Xie Tong to return to the Tang state.)〉

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 20Volume 20 Book of Later Liang 20: Biographies 10: Xie Tong, Si Maye, Liu Han, Wang Jinrao, Gao Shao, Ma Sixun, Zhang Cunjin, Kou Yanqing · 7 passages

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謝瞳，字子明，福州人。 Xie Tong, who styled himself Ziming, came from Fuzhou.

廣明初，黃巢陷長安，遂投跡於太祖，洎居門下，未嘗一日不在左右。 When Huang Chao seized Chang'an in the first year of Guangming, Tong entered the Founder's service and from that day was never far from his side.

及太祖據同州，遂署右職。 Once the Founder held Tongzhou, he gave Tong a chief post on his staff.

瞳揣太祖有擇福意，乃進說曰：「黃家以數十萬之師，值唐朝久安，人不習戰，因利乘便，遂下兩京。 Reading the Founder's wish to change sides, Tong urged him: "Huang's army of hundreds of thousands took both capitals only because the Tang had grown soft in long peace and men had forgotten war.

王重榮表瞳為檢校屯田員外郎，賜緋，令奉表於蜀。 Wang Chongrong made Tong acting Director of the Palace Farms, dressed him in crimson, and sent him to present the submission to Shu.

是年冬，太祖征淮南，過郡，因求侍府幕，表為宣義軍節度副使，充兩使留後。 That winter, as the Founder marched on Huainan and passed through his circuit, Tong asked to join his staff and was made vice-commissioner of the Xuanyi army and regent for both civil and military commissioners.

瞳在滑十三年，部內增戶約五萬，益兵數千人，累遷至大中大夫、檢校右僕射，卒於滑。 Thirteen years at Hua added fifty thousand households and several thousand troops to his circuit; he rose to Grand Master and acting Right Vice Director, and died there.