Yao Chong (姚崇) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yao Chong as an official and statesman. This record brings together 5 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	Yao Chong	姚崇	Yao Chong
Personal name	Yao Chong	姚崇	Yao Chong

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xintangshu:121:s0034, xintangshu:161:s0016

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 姚崇素忌之 · Western Interval: Start: AD 713 · End: AD 720
Explicit · xintangshu:121:s0034
Source Date: Text: 開元初 · Western Year: AD 713
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:161:s0016, xintangshu:161:s0017

References in the histories

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 121Volume 121 Biographies 46: Liu, Zhong, Cui, and the Two Kings · 4 passages

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姚崇素忌之，奏幽求郁怏散職，有怨言。 Yao Chong, who had long envied him, reported that Youqiu, bitter over a sinecure, was voicing grievances.

不為姚祟所喜，與幽求並以怨望得罪，貶果州刺史，賜封邑百戶。 Disliked by Yao Chong, he and Youqiu were alike punished for discontent and demoted; Shaojing became prefect of Guo with a nominal fief of one hundred households.

還，加開府儀同三司，自開元後，唯王仁皎、姚崇、宋璟及毛仲得之。 On his return he received the privilege of an opening office—after Kaiyuan only Wang Renjiao, Yao Chong, Song Jing, and Maozhong had held it.

姚崇勸不用功臣，宜矣。 Yao Chong was right to warn against keeping meritorious ministers in power.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 161Volume 161 Biographies 86: Zhang, Zhao, Li, Zheng, Xu, Wang, Feng, Yu · 1 passage

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性躁卞，儻蕩無檢，罕為正人所遇，姚崇尤惡之。 He was impetuous and blunt by nature, unrestrained and without decorum, seldom met with favor from upright men, and Yao Chong especially detested him.