Yao Zongzhi (藥縱之)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yao Zongzhi as an official and scholar. This record brings together 9 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yao Zongzhi	藥縱之	Yao Zongzhi
Personal	Yao Zongzhi	藥縱之
Personal name	Yao Zongzhi	藥縱之	Yao Zongzhi
Given name	Zongzhi	縱之	Zongzhi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:069:s0003, jiuwudaishi:071:s0196
Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:042:s0043

Roles

Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清泰元年九月 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0206

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 十五年前後/四年 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:069:s0049, jiuwudaishi:069:s0047
Western Interval: Start: AD 910 · End: AD 926 · Source Date: Text: 明宗刺代州，署為軍事衙推。
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0197
Source Date: Text: 清泰元年九月 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:071:s0206
Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:042:s0043
Source Date: Text: 長興初 · Western Year: AD 930
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:071:s0205

Career and standing

Label: Vice Minister of Revenue; formerly Bianzhou vice commissioner / 戶部侍郎、汴州節度副使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0043
Label: prefect of Caozhou / 曹州刺史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興初 · Western Year: AD 930
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0205
Label: prefect of Cizhou / 磁州刺史 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0203

Places and affiliations

Place: Taiyuan / 太原 · Relation: native
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0196

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 1 passage

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癸卯，以汴州節度副使藥縱之為戶部侍郎，前宗正卿李諧為將作監。 On guimao Yao Zongzhi of Bianzhou became vice revenue minister and Li Xie former clan director became director of works.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 69Volume 69 Book of Later Tang 45: Biographies 21: Zhang Xian, Wang Zhengyan, Hu Zhuang, Cui Yisun, Meng Hu, Sun Yue, Zhang Yanlang, Liu Yanhao, Liu Yanlang · 2 passages

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太原地雄邊服，人多尚武，恥於學業，惟憲與里人藥縱之精力遊學，弱冠盡通諸經，尤精《左傳》。 Taiyuan lay in a powerful frontier region where men prized martial prowess and looked down on scholarly pursuits; only Xian and a townsman named Yao Zongzhi devoted their energies to travel and study. By his weak-capping year he had mastered all the classics, with particular mastery of the Zuo Commentary.

愚聞藥縱之言，總管德量仁厚，素得士心，餘勿多言，誌此而已。」 I have heard Yao Zongzhi's words: the chief commander's virtue and magnanimity are benevolent and generous, and he has long won the hearts of officers. Say no more—record only this."

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 71Volume 71 Book of Later Tang 47: Biographies 23: Ma Yu, Si Kongting, Cao Tingyin, Xiao Xifu, Yao Zongzhi, Jia Fu, Ma Gao, Luo Guan, Chun Yuyan, Zhang Ge, Xu Ji, Zhou Xuanbao · 6 passages

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藥縱之，太原人，少為儒。 Yao Zongzhi came from Taiyuan and in youth pursued Confucian learning.

明宗刺代州，署為軍事衙推。 When Mingzong served as military commissioner at Daizhou, he appointed Zongzhi military affairs aide.

明宗鎮常山，被病不從。 When Mingzong governed Changshan, illness kept Zongzhi from accompanying him.

及即位，縱之見於洛邑，安重誨怒其觀望，久無所授。 After Mingzong took the throne, Zongzhi came to Luoyang; An Chonghui resented his fence-sitting and long gave him no post.

明宗曰：「德勝用兵時，縱之饑寒相伴，不離我左右。 Mingzong said, "When I was campaigning at Desheng, Zongzhi shared hunger and cold with me and never left my side.

今有天下，何人不富貴，何為獨棄縱之！」 Now that I have the realm, who would not prosper—why abandon Zongzhi alone!"