Yang Tong (楊統) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Tong as an administrator, diviner, official, and scholar. 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

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yang Tong	楊統	Yang Tong
Given	Tong	統
Surname	Yang	楊
Personal name	Yang Tong	楊統	Yang Tong

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Administrator
Diviner
Official
Scholar
Student
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died
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Age

Age: 90 · Reckoning: sui
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 安帝永初三年 · Western Year: AD 109
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Source Date: Text: 建初中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 76 · End: AD 84
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Source Date: Text: 漢兵平蜀 · Western Year: AD 36
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Family

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Parent of Yang Hou (楊厚)
Kinship Term: begat / 生 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Parent of Yang Bo (楊博)
Kinship Term: son by earlier wife / 前妻子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Yang Chunqing (楊春卿)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Spouse of Mother of Yang Hou (楊厚母)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: active

Career and standing

Label: Magistrate of Pengcheng / 彭城令 · Action: appointed
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Label: Grand Counsellor of the Household / 光祿大夫 · Action: held
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Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: held
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Label: state three elders / 國三老 · Action: held
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Learning and skills

Label: ancient methods / 先法 · Teacher Person Id: Zhou Xun (周循)
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Label: Hetu-Luoshu and astronomical reckoning / 河洛書及天文推步 · Teacher Person Id: Zheng Boshan (鄭伯山)
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Works and attributed material

Work: House Method with Commentary / 家法章句 · Relation: author
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Work: Inner Prophecies / 內讖 · Relation: author
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Kind: oral-reply · Role: speaker
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Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: rain-maker · Action: brought rain in drought
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Relation: student-of · Person Id: Zheng Boshan (鄭伯山)
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Relation: student-of · Person Id: Zhou Xun (周循)
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References in the histories

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Book of Later Han, Chapter 34Volume 30a: Biographies of Su Jing; Yang Hou · 8 passages

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漢兵平蜀，春卿自殺，臨命戒子統曰：『吾綈帙中有先祖所傳秘記，為漢家用，爾其修之。』 When Han forces conquered Shu, Chunqing committed suicide; at the last he warned his son Yang Tong: "In my document case lies an ancestral secret scripture meant for Han—honor and preserve it."

統感父遺言，服闋，辭家從犍為周循學習先法，又就同郡鄭伯山受《河洛書》及天文推步之術。 Tong heeded his father’s charge; after the mourning period he traveled to Qianwei to learn ancient methods from Zhou Xun and studied the Hetu–Luoshu texts and astronomical reckoning with Zheng Boshan in his home commandery.

建初中為彭城令，一州大旱，統推陰陽消伏，縣界蒙澤。 During Jianchu he served as magistrate of Pengcheng during a province-wide drought; by analyzing yin–yang cycles he brought rain to his county.

太守宗湛使統求為郡求雨，亦即降澍。 Prefect Zong Zhan then asked him to pray for the whole commandery, and rain fell there too.

統作《家法章句》及《內讖》二卷角說，位至光祿大夫，為國三老。 Tong wrote the "House Method with Commentary," two volumes of Inner Prophecies with exegetical notes, rose to grand counselor of the household, and was honored among the state’s three elders.

統生厚。 Tong’s son was Hou.

時統為侍中，厚隨在京師。 Yang Tong was then a palace attendant, and Hou was with him at court.

朝廷以問統，統對『年老耳目不明，子厚曉讀圖書，粗識其意』。 The court questioned Yang Tong, who answered: "I am old and dim-sighted; my son Hou reads the prognostic texts and grasps their gist."