Zhao Feng (趙鳳) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhao Feng as an editor, historian, official, and scholar. This record brings together 10 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhao Feng	趙鳳	Zhao Feng
Given	Feng	鳳	Feng
Surname	Zhao	趙	Zhao
Personal name	Zhao Feng	趙鳳	Zhao Feng
Personal	Zhao Feng	趙鳳	Zhào Fèng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:037:s0101, jiuwudaishi:071:s0191
Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0016, jiuwudaishi:040:s0163
Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:066:s0034

Roles

Editor
Historian
Official
Scholar
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 十一月癸未 · Inherited Narrative Context: true · Western Year: AD 929
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:040:s0163, jiuwudaishi:040:s0166
Source Date: Text: 即位之明年 · Western Year: AD 927
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:071:s0191
Source Date: Text: 天成元年 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:037:s0101
Source Date: Text: 天成四年七月 · Western Year: AD 929
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:040:s0096
Source Date: Text: 天成四年二月 · Western Year: AD 929
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:040:s0016
Source Date: Text: 天成四年八月 · Western Year: AD 929
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:040:s0122
Source Date: Text: 天成四年夏四月 · Western Year: AD 929
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:040:s0046
Source Date: Text: 天成四年秋七月 · Western Year: AD 929
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:040:s0100
Source Date: Text: 明宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:066:s0034

Career and standing

Label: supervising compiler / 監修
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0166
Label: acting regent of Bian / 權知汴州軍州事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0016
Label: Director of the Hall of Assembled Worthies / 判集賢院事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0122
Label: Vice Director of the Secretariat, Minister of Works, Grand Councillor / 門下侍郎兼工部尚書、平章事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0046
Label: Vice Minister of Revenue / 戶部侍郎 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:037:s0101
Label: Duanming Hall academician / 端明殿學士 · Action: continued
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:037:s0101
Label: chancellor / 宰臣 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0163
Label: Duanming Hall academician / 端明殿學士 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0016
Label: supervising compiler of state history / 監修國史 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0096
Label: silks and silver vessels / 繒彩、銀器 · Action: bestowed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0166

Places and affiliations

Label: Later Tang / 後唐 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:040:s0163

Works and attributed material

Work: Chronicle Records and Veritable Record compilation / 紀年錄、實錄 · Relation: supervising-compiler
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0166
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Quoted: false · Other Person Id: Yu Qiao (於嶠) · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十一月癸未 · Inherited Narrative Context: true · Western Year: AD 929
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0163
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Li Siyuan (李嗣源)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0191, jiuwudaishi:071:s0192
Kind: memorial · Role: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0096, jiuwudaishi:040:s0097, jiuwudaishi:040:s0098, jiuwudaishi:040:s0099, jiuwudaishi:040:s0100

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: accuser · Action: falsely-memorialized-Yu-Qiao · Other Person Id: Yu Qiao (於嶠) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十一月癸未 · Inherited Narrative Context: true · Western Year: AD 929
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0163
Relation: false-accuser-of · Person Id: Yu Qiao (於嶠)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0163
Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Zhang Zhaoyuan (張昭遠)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0166
Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Lü Xianxiu (呂咸休)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0166

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: submitted a false memorial against Yu Qiao · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0163
Item: silks and silver vessels / 繒彩、銀器 · Relation: bestowed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0166

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 37Volume 37 Book of Later Tang 13: Mingzong Annals 3 · 1 passage

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以兵部侍郎劉嶽為吏部侍郎，以戶部侍郎、充端明殿學士馮道為兵部侍郎，以中書舍人、充端明殿學士趙鳳為戶部侍郎，並依前充職。 Liu Yue moved from War to Personnel; Feng Dao from Revenue to War while keeping Duanming Hall; Zhao Feng from drafting to Revenue while keeping Duanming—all at rank.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 40Volume 40 Book of Later Tang 16: Mingzong Annals 6 · 7 passages

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以端明殿學士趙鳳權知汴州軍州事。 Zhao Feng acted as regent at Bian.

甲寅，以端明殿學士趙鳳為門下侍郎兼工部尚書、平章事。 On jiayin Zhao Feng became secretariat vice director, minister of works, and grand councillor.

四年七月，監修國史趙鳳奏：「奉敕修懿祖、獻祖、太祖、莊宗四帝實錄，自今年六月一日起手，旋具進呈。 In the seventh month of year 4, Zhao Feng, supervising compiler of state history, reported: "By edict we are compiling the Veritable Records of the four emperors Yizu, Xianzu, Taizu, and Zhuangzong, beginning on the first day of the sixth month of this year and to be presented as they are completed.

所修前件史書，今欲自莊宗一朝名為實錄，其太祖以上並目為紀年錄。」 Zhao Feng proposed Zhuangzong alone as Veritable Records and the founding ancestor and above as Chronological Records."

庚戌，以宰臣、監修國史趙鳳兼判集賢院事，以左散騎常侍任讚判大理卿事。 On gengxu Zhao Feng—chancellor and supervising historiographer—also directed the Hall of Assembled Worthies; Ren Zan, left regular attendant, judged Court of Judicial Review affairs.

癸未，秘書少監於嶠配振武長流百姓，永不齒任，為宰臣趙鳳誣奏也。 On guiwei Yu Qiao, secretariat vice director, was sentenced to long exile as a commoner at Zhenwu and barred from office forever—Zhao Feng's false memorial.

〈（《五代會要》：監修趙鳳、修撰張昭遠、呂咸休各賜繒彩、銀器等。）〉 (The 《Five Dynasties Essentials》 says supervising compiler Zhao Feng and compilers Zhang Zhaoyuan and Lü Xianxiu each received silks, silver vessels, and the like.)

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 66Volume 66 Book of Later Tang 42: Biographies 8: an Zhonghui, Zhu Hongzhao, Zhu Hongshi, Kang Yicheng, Yao Yanchou, Song Lingxun · 1 passage

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趙鳳曰：「大臣豈可輕動，公失言也。」 Zhao Feng said, "Great ministers must not be shifted lightly—you misspeak, sir."

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 · 1 passage

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趙鳳奏曰：「袁、許之事，元豹所長者，以陛下貴不可言，今既驗矣，餘無可問。 Zhao Feng objected, "Yuanbao excels at the arts of Yuan and Xu; he said Your Majesty's destiny was beyond words, and that has been proved—there is nothing left to ask.