Sui and Tang · Scholar and Farmer

Zhen Feng 逢

Attested AD 766 - AD 820

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhen Feng was a scholar and Farmer.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Alternate name	Xiantai	憲臺	Xiàntái

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 806 to AD 820 元和中
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 194, passages 127, 129
AD 766 to AD 820 大歷初
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 194, passages 119, 121

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Sibling of Zhen Liwai (禮闈)
younger brother 弟 · Full siblings
elder brother 兄 · Full siblings
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 194, passages 120-121
Child of Zhen Ji (甄濟)
son 子
father 父
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passages 120-121

Career and standing

farmer-scholar 耕讀
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 122
Became
Orphaned · while still young
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 121

Places and affiliations

At Yicheng 宜城 · Relation Resided at
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 122

Events and relationships

Aided kin neighbors and friends
Personal · Benefactor
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passages 123-125
Father and son won fame
Commemoration · Advocate · With Zhen Ji (甄濟)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 136
Sought father entry in national history
Scholarly · Advocate
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passages 126-127
Relation Friend of · Person Yuan Zhen (元稹)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 129

Assessments and attributes

Assessment acted to publicize father's deeds; both deserve historical record · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Han Yu (韓愈)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 135
Assessment known for righteousness · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 125

Source notes

From Xiantai 憲臺 · To Feng 逢
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 121

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 194Volume 194 Biographies 119: Outstanding Conduct · 5 passages

濟生子，因其官字曰禮闈、曰憲臺。 Ji had sons whom he named after his offices: one he called Liwai, one Xiantai.

而禮闈死，憲臺更名逢，幼而孤。 Liwai died; Xiantai changed his name to Feng and was orphaned while still young.

逢常以父名不得在國史，欲詣京師自言。 Feng often grieved that his father's name was absent from the national histories and wished to go to the capital to plead his case.

而逢與元稹善，稹移書於史館修撰韓愈曰：「濟棄去祿山，及其反，有名號，又逼致之，執不起，卒不汙其名。 Feng was friendly with Yuan Zhen; Zhen wrote to Han Yu at the History Office, saying: "Ji left Lushan's service; when Lushan rebelled he bore an office title, and though they forced him to come he would not rise and never stained his name.

愈答曰：「逢能行身，幸於方州大臣，以標目其先人事，載之天下耳目，徹之天子，追爵其父第四品，赫然驚人，逢與其父俱當得書矣。」 Yu replied: "Feng acted in his own person; fortunate in a regional grandee, he brought his forebear's deeds before the empire's eyes and reached the Son of Heaven; his father was posthumously enfeoffed at the fourth rank, startling all men. Both Feng and his father deserve to be written."