Zhu Hongzhao (朱弘昭)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhu Hongzhao as a military officer, official, and statesman. This record brings together 26 passages from 4 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhu Hongzhao	朱弘昭	Zhu Hongzhao
Given	Hongzhao	弘昭	Hóngzhāo
Surname	Zhu	朱	Zhū
Personal	Zhu Hongzhao	朱宏昭
Personal	Zhu Hongzhao	朱弘昭	Zhū Hóngzhāo
Personal name	Zhu Hongzhao	朱弘昭	Zhu Hongzhao

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:007:s0006
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:038:s0103
Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:042:s0048, jiuwudaishi:066:s0074

Roles

Military Officer
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Manner: suicide / 自殺 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 丁卯 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit · xinwudaishi:007:s0017
Manner: suicide by well · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清泰元年四月 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0101

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 丁卯 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:007:s0017
Source Date: Text: 乙未 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:007:s0006
Source Date: Text: 大臣朱弘昭等方圖其事 · Western Year: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:038:s0103
Source Date: Text: 天成元年 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:066:s0077
Source Date: Text: 清泰元年四月 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:066:s0101, jiuwudaishi:066:s0102
Source Date: Text: 長興三年十二月 · Western Year: AD 932
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:066:s0088
Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:042:s0048

Family

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Descendant of Zhu Min (朱玟)
Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
Parent of Daughter of Zhu Hongzhao
Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
Child of Zhu Shuzong (朱叔宗)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Spouse of Wife of Zhu Hongzhao
Kinship Term: wife / 妻子 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband

Kinship Role: children · Note: presented with wife before Chonghui · Count: 2
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0041, jiuwudaishi:066:s0081

Career and standing

Label: Southern Xuanhui commissioner / 宣徽南院使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天成三年 · Western Year: AD 928
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0078
Label: Literary Thought commissioner / 文思使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天成元年 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0077
Label: Fengxiang military commissioner / 鳳翔節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 933
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0080
Label: Xiangzhou military commissioner / 襄州節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興三年十二月 · Western Year: AD 932
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0088
Label: Left Martial Guard senior general; Southern Palace Bureau commissioner / 左武衛上將軍、宣徽南院使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0048
Label: Privy Council commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興四年 · Western Year: AD 933
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0092
Label: Minister of Works (posthumous) / 尚書令 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢高祖即位 · Western Year: AD 947
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0103

Places and affiliations

Polity: Later Tang / 後唐 · Relation: served
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0076
Place: Taiyuan / 太原
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0074

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: An Chonghui (安重誨)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0044

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: conspirator · Action: plotted-killing · Other Person Id: Li Congrong (李從榮) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興四年 · Western Year: AD 933
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0093
Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Feng Yun (馮贇)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:007:s0033

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 1 passage

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辛亥，以前鳳翔節度使朱宏昭為左武衛上將軍，充宣徽南院使。 On xinhai Zhu Hongzhao of Fengxiang became left martial guard senior general and southern palace bureau commissioner.

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 · 21 passages

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重誨至鳳翔，節度使朱弘昭延於寢室，令妻子奉食器，敬事尤謹。 At Fengxiang, commissioner Zhu Hongzhao welcomed him to his private quarters; wife and children served food with deepest respect.

重誨既辭，弘昭遣人具奏：「重誨怨望出惡言，不可令至行營，恐奪石敬瑭兵柄。」 After he left, Hongzhao reported, "Chonghui spoke bitterly in resentment; keep him from the front lest he steal Shi's command."

再過鳳翔，朱弘昭拒而不納，重誨懼，急騎奔程，未至京師，製授河中帥。 Passing Fengxiang again, Hongzhao shut him out; in fear he raced on, and before the capital an edict made him Hedong commander.

朱弘昭，太原人也。 Zhu Hongzhao was from Taiyuan.

弘昭事明宗，在藩方為典客。 He served Mingzong as guest-reception officer in the prince's domain.

明宗親祀南郊，弘昭為大內留守，加檢校太傅。 At Mingzong's southern suburban sacrifice Hongzhao was grand inner custodian and made acting Grand Mentor.

至鳳翔，弘昭迎謁馬首，請館於府署，妻子羅拜，捧卮為壽。 At Fengxiang Hongzhao met him on the road, lodged him at his mansion, and had wife and children bow and toast his health.

弘昭密遣人謂敬瑭曰：「安公親來勞軍，觀其舉措孟浪，儻令得至，恐士心迎合，則不戰而自潰也。 He secretly told Jingtang, "Lord An comes to oversee the army; he acts rashly—if he reaches camp the men may rally to him and you will collapse without fighting.

復過鳳翔，弘昭拒而不納。 Passing Fengxiang again, Hongzhao shut him out.

及重誨得罪，其年弘昭入朝，授左武衛上將軍，充宣徽南院使。 When Chonghui fell, Hongzhao came to court as Left Martial Guard senior general and Southern Xuanhui commissioner.

未幾，趙延壽出鎮汴州，召弘昭於襄陽，代為樞密使，加同平章事。 Soon Zhao Yanshou went to Bian; Hongzhao was recalled from Xiangyang as Privy Council commissioner with co-chief councilor rank.