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Zang Tao 臧燾

Zāng Tào

Died AD 422

Passages
12
Chapters
3
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Zang Tao as an aristocrat, family member, named individual, and official. This record brings together 12 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Zang Tao 臧燾 Zāng Tào
Given Dao
Courtesy De Ren 德仁 Dé Rén
Descriptive kinship great-grandfather of Zang Dun 高祖
Personal name Tao Tào
Surname Zang
Personal Zang Dao 臧燾 Zāng Dào
Personal Zang Tao 臧燾

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • Family Member
  • Named Individual
  • Official
  • Scholar

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永初三年 · Western Year: AD 422 · Age: Value: 70 · Reckoning: sui
    Explicit · songshu:055:s0081

Age

  • Value: 70 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永初三年 · Western Year: AD 422
    Explicit · songshu:055:s0081

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 元熙元年 · Western Year: AD 419
    Explicit · songshu:055:s0077
  • Source Date: Text: 劉宋初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 420 · End: AD 440
    Explicit event contextual date · songshu:071:s0218
  • Source Date: Text: · Western Interval: Start: AD 420 · End: AD 479
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:042:s0004
  • Source Date: Text: 晉孝武帝太元中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 376 · End: AD 396
    Explicit · songshu:055:s0004
  • Source Date: Text: 永初三年 · Western Year: AD 422
  • Source Date: Text: 義熙十四年 · Western Year: AD 418
    Explicit · songshu:055:s0076

Family

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  • Parent of Zang Tanzhi (臧潭之)
    Kinship Term: great-grandfather / 高祖 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: great-grandfather · Object Role: grandson · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Sibling of Zang Xi (臧熹)
    Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Role: younger-brother · Object Role: elder-brother · Subject Relative Age: younger · Shared Parentage: full
  • Sibling of Empress Wu Jing (武敬皇后)
    Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-sister · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full
    Kinship Term: younger sister / 妹 · Subject Role: younger-sister · Object Role: elder-brother · Subject Relative Age: younger · Shared Parentage: full
  • Parent of Zang Sui (臧邃)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: eldest-son · Object Birth Order: 1
  • Parent of Daughter of Zang Dao (臧燾女)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
  • Parent of Zang Chuo (臧綽)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: younger-son
  • Child of Father of Zang Dao (臧燾父)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  • Child of Mother of Zang Dao (臧燾母)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother

Career and standing

  • Label: Grand Master of Splendid Happiness / 光祿大夫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永初三年 · Western Year: AD 422
    Explicit · songshu:055:s0080
  • Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 義熙十四年 · Western Year: AD 418
    Explicit · songshu:055:s0076
  • Label: assistant instructor / 助教 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:055:s0004
  • Label: magistrate of Linyi / 臨沂令 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:055:s0022
  • Label: Minister of Ceremonies / 太常 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:055:s0078
  • Label: Left Glorious Grand Master / 左光祿大夫 · Action: held
    Explicit · liangshu:042:s0004
  • Title: Marquis of Gaoling district / 高陵亭侯 · Action: inherited
    Explicit · songshu:055:s0031
  • Label: Left Grand Master of Splendid Happiness / 左光祿大夫 · Action: posthumously-awarded
    Explicit · songshu:055:s0082
  • Status: retirement · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永初三年 · Western Year: AD 422
    Explicit · songshu:055:s0080

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: devoted to the sages; renown fitting · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · songshu:055:s0222
  • Assessment: moral bearing praised in home district · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · songshu:055:s0003
  • Assessment: renowned for emaciation from mourning grief · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · songshu:055:s0021
  • Kind: illness · Statement: foot ailment
    Explicit · songshu:055:s0077

Source notes

References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 42Volume 42: Zang Dun; Zang Jue; Fu Qi · 1 passage
Book of Song, Chapter 55Volume 55 Biographies 15: Zang Dao, Xu Guang, F Long · 10 passages
Book of Song, Chapter 71Volume 71 Biographies 31: Xu Zhan, Jiang Zhan, Wang Sengchao · 1 passage