Zhen Tian (甄恬) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhen Tian as an administrator, named individual, and official. This record brings together 6 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhen Tian	甄恬	Zhen Tian
Given	Tian	恬	Tian
Courtesy name	Yanyue	彥約	Yanyue
Surname	Zhen	甄	Zhen
Personal name	Zhen Tian	甄恬	Zhen Tian

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liangshu:047:s0124

Roles

Administrator
Named Individual
Official

Life and dates

Age

Age: 8 · Reckoning: sui · Context: filial vision of father
Explicit · liangshu:047:s0129

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天監初 · Western Year: AD 502
Strongly inferred · liangshu:047:s0124, liangshu:047:s0133, liangshu:047:s0157

Family

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Descendant of Zhen Qinzhi (甄欽之)
Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal · Parentage: biological
Child of Zhen Biaozhi (甄標之)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Line: paternal
Child of Mother of Zhen Tian (甄恬母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: acting staff officer on the Pacifying South staff / 安南行參軍 · Action: held
Explicit · liangshu:047:s0139
Label: gate and lane marked; rank granted / 旌表室閭，加以爵位 · Action: granted
Explicit · liangshu:047:s0138

Places and affiliations

Relation: served · Label: Liang
Strongly inferred · liangshu:047:s0139
Place: Wuji in Zhongshan / 中山無極
Explicit · liangshu:047:s0124
Place: Jiangling / 江陵 · Relation: ancestral-home
Explicit · liangshu:047:s0124

Works and attributed material

Kind: edict · Role: subject · Speaker Person Id: Gaozu (高祖) · Quoted: true
Strongly inferred · liangshu:047:s0134, liangshu:047:s0135, liangshu:047:s0136, liangshu:047:s0137, liangshu:047:s0138

Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: mourner · Action: hutted by tomb; birds answered weeping; white sparrow roosted
Explicit · liangshu:047:s0131, liangshu:047:s0132
Kind: ritual · Role: mourner · Action: mourned father with adult grief as a small child
Explicit · liangshu:047:s0127, liangshu:047:s0128
Kind: omen · Role: subject · Action: saw father's likeness after weeping; deemed filial portent
Explicit · liangshu:047:s0129

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: filial portent / extraordinary filiality · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liangshu:047:s0129, liangshu:047:s0136

References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 47Volume 47: Filial Acts · 6 passages

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甄恬字彥約，中山無極人也，世居江陵。 Zhen Tian, styled Yanyue, came from Wuji in Zhongshan; his family had dwelt in Jiangling for generations.

恬數歲喪父，哀感有若成人。 Tian lost his father as a small child, mourning like a grown man.

家人矜其小，以肉汁和飯飼之，恬不肯食。 Kin, pitying his age, mixed broth into his rice; Tian refused it.

及居喪，廬於墓側，恒有鳥玄黃雜色，集於廬樹，恬哭則鳴，哭止則止。 Mourning at the grave he built a hut; black-and-yellow birds always perched on its tree—when Tian wept they called, when he ceased they ceased.

恬旣孝行殊異，聲著邦壤，敦風厲俗，弘益茲多。 Tian's filiality is extraordinary, his name known in every district—he steels the folk and brings great good.

恬官至安南行參軍。 Tian rose to acting staff officer on the Pacifying South staff.