Overview
Zheng Qiao was a historian and Scholar.
Other names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Courtesy name | Yuzhong | 漁仲 | Yuzhong |
| Alternate name | Master Jiaji | 夾漈先生 | Jiaji Xiansheng |
Life and dates
Death
- AD 1162 高宗幸建康Fell ill and diedDirectly stated · History of Song 436, passage 267
Age
- 59Reckoning Sui · Occasion deathDirectly stated · History of Song 436, passage 267
Attested activity
- AD 1149 紹興十九年Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 258
- AD 1162 高宗幸建康Dated from the passage context · History of Song 436, passage 267
Career and standing
- writer of treatises 著書Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 254
- Compiler at the Bureau of Military Affairs 樞密院編修官AppointedDirectly stated · History of Song 436, passage 263
- Right Junior Merit Officer and Archivist in the Ministries of Rites and War 右迪功郎、禮、兵部架閣AppointedDirectly stated · History of Song 436, passage 262
- concurrent examiner of documents for the various offices 兼攝檢詳諸房文學Concurrently heldDirectly stated · History of Song 436, passage 263
- Superintendent of the Southern Mountain Temple at Tanzhou 監潭州南嶽廟Transferred toDirectly stated · History of Song 436, passage 262
Places and affiliations
- Polity Song 宋 · Relation ServedDirectly stated · History of Song 436, passage 253
- At Putian 莆田Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 253
- At Jiaji Mountain 夾漈山 · Relation Resided atDirectly stated · History of Song 436, passage 255
- At Xinghua prefecture 興化軍 · Relation Native ofDirectly stated · History of Song 436, passage 253
Works and attributed material
- Comprehensive Treatises 通志Relation AuthorDirectly stated · History of Song 436, passages 262-263, 267
- treatises on classics, ritual, writing, astronomy, geography, and natural history 經旨禮樂文字天文地理蟲魚草木方書之學Relation AuthorDirectly stated · History of Song 436, passage 258
Events and relationships
- Denounced historiography since Ban GuDirectly stated · History of Song 436, passage 260
- Gathered over two hundred disciplesScholarly · TeacherDirectly stated · History of Song 436, passage 259
- Predicted Jin ruler suicideDirectly stated · History of Song 436, passage 266
- Presented treatises to throneAD 1149 紹興十九年 · Scholarly · AuthorDirectly stated · History of Song 436, passage 258
- Sought to revise Jin Zhenglong official systemScholarly · ProposerDirectly stated · History of Song 436, passage 264
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment austere and generous, yet urgently bent on office; connoisseurs held him cheap for this · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · History of Song 436, passage 269
- Assessment broad in learning but weak in essentials · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · History of Song 436, passage 268
- Assessment held himself no lesser than Liu Xiang or Yang Xiong · Mode self-report Source Person Id Zheng Qiao (鄭樵)Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 254
References in the histories
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