Overview
The translated histories identify Zhuo Mao as an administrator, official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 8 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Zhuo Mao | 卓茂 | Zhuó Mào |
| Given | Mao | 茂 | Mao |
| Given name | Mao | 茂 | Mao |
| Surname | Zhuo | 卓 | Zhuo |
| Personal name | Zhuo Mao | 卓茂 | Zhuo Mao |
| Courtesy | Zikang | 子康 | Zǐkāng |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · houhanshu:028:s0278
- Sex: maleExplicit · houhanshu:085:s0275, houhanshu:125:s0016
- Value: maleExplicit · houhanshu:028:s0001
Roles
- Administrator
- Official
- Scholar
- Statesman
Life and dates
Death
- Action: died · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建武四年 · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 28Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0051
- Manner: died in office as Grand TutorExplicit · houhanshu:125:s0016
Age
- Value: 70 · Qualifier: over · Reckoning: traditionalExplicit · houhanshu:028:s0058
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 建武四年 · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 28Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0051
- Source Date: Text: 世祖以卓茂为太傅 · Western Interval: Start: AD 25 · End: AD 57Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:125:s0016
- Source Date: Text: 元帝時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 48 · End: BC 33Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0003
- Source Date: Text: 光武初即位 · Western Year: AD 25Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0046, houhanshu:028:s0047
- Source Date: Text: 密人笑卓茂之政 · Western Year: c. AD 25Strongly inferred · houhanshu:085:s0275
- Source Date: Text: 平帝時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 1 · End: AD 5Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0040
- Source Date: Text: 更始政權 · Western Interval: Start: AD 23 · End: AD 25Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0045
- Source Date: Text: 王莽居攝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 6 · End: AD 8Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0044
- Western Interval: Start: AD 25 · End: AD 88 · Source Date: Text: 贊曰（章內人物）Uncertain · houhanshu:028:s0278
Family
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- Descendant of Grandfather of Zhuo Mao (卓茂之祖)Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Father of Zhuo Mao (卓茂之父)
- Parent of Zhuo Rong (戎)Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 1
- Child of Father of Zhuo Mao (卓茂之父)Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Line: paternal
- Parent of Zhuo Chong (崇)Kinship Term: second son / 次子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 2
Career and standing
- Label: Grand Tutor / 太傅 · Action: appointed · Authority Person Id: Emperor Guangwu of Han (漢光武帝) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光武初即位 · Western Year: AD 25Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0049
- Label: Libationer among Palace Attendants / 侍中祭酒 · Action: appointed · Authority Person Id: Emperor Gengshi (更始)Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0045
- Label: Grand Tutor / 太傅 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 世祖以卓茂为太傅 · Western Interval: Start: AD 25 · End: AD 57Explicit · houhanshu:125:s0016
- Label: clerk in the Chancellor's office / 丞相府史 · Action: appointedExplicit · houhanshu:028:s0007
- Label: Gentleman-in-Attendance of the Household / 侍郎 · Action: appointedExplicit · houhanshu:028:s0014
- Label: magistrate of Mi / 密令 · Action: appointedExplicit · houhanshu:028:s0014
- Label: libationer among local retainers / 門下掾祭酒 · Action: served · Refusal: refused substantive officeExplicit · houhanshu:028:s0044
- Label: service at the Yellow Gates / 給事黃門 · Action: servedExplicit · houhanshu:028:s0014
- Label: assistant for the capital circuit / 京部丞 · Action: transferredExplicit · houhanshu:028:s0043
- Title: Marquis Who Extols Virtue / 褒德侯 · Action: enfeoffed · Households: 2000Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0049
- Items: honor seat and staff, carriage and horses, one suit of clothes, five hundred jin of silk wadding · Action: bestowedExplicit · houhanshu:028:s0049
- Action: received imperial funeral honors · Items: coffin, outer coffin, tomb ground, imperial attendance in mourning dressExplicit · houhanshu:028:s0051
- Title: Marquis Who Extols Virtue / 褒德侯 · Action: granted · Authority Person Id: Emperor Guangwu of Han (漢光武帝)Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0049
- Status: retirement for illness · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 王莽居攝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 6 · End: AD 8Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0044
- Status: retirement on account of age · Action: enteredExplicit · houhanshu:028:s0045
- Status: scholar of wide learning · Action: recognized-asExplicit · houhanshu:028:s0004
- Status: refused office under Wang Mang and was renowned · Negated Office Service: trueExplicit · houhanshu:028:s0305
Places and affiliations
- Label: Eastern Han / 後漢 · Relation: servedStrongly inferred · houhanshu:028:s0278
- Polity: Eastern Han / 东汉 · Relation: servedStrongly inferred · houhanshu:085:s0275
- Place: Wan in Nanyang / 南陽宛 · Relation: native-ofExplicit · houhanshu:028:s0001
- Place: Mi / 密 · Relation: associated-withExplicit · houhanshu:085:s0275
Learning and skills
- Subject: Odes, Rites, astronomy, and calendrical mathematics / 《詩》、《禮》及歷算 · Action: studied · Place: Chang'an / 長安 · Teacher Person Id: Erudite Jiang (江生) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元帝時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 48 · End: BC 33Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0003
Works and attributed material
- Kind: dialogue · Role: speaker · Statement: questioned a complainant about gifts to a pavilion chief
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Statement: asked that the horse be returned if it proved not to belong to the claimantExplicit · houhanshu:028:s0011
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Statement: asked when the claimant had lost his horseExplicit · houhanshu:028:s0009
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Statement: contrasted broad law with instruction through ritual
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Statement: explained gift exchange and the humane basis of social relations
Events and relationships
- Kind: governance · Role: magistrate · Action: governed Mi through moral instruction and humane treatment
- Kind: omen · Role: beneficiary · Action: Mi alone escaped a locust plague · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 平帝時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 1 · End: AD 5Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0040, houhanshu:028:s0041
- Kind: political · Role: appointee · Action: served-as-grand-tutor-then-office-abolished-on-death · Other Person Id: Emperor Guangwu of Han (漢光武帝)Explicit · houhanshu:125:s0016
- Kind: personal · Role: horse owner · Action: yielded a horse to a mistaken claimant, who later returned it and apologized
- Relation: like-minded-associate · Group Person Ids: Kong Xiu (孔休), Cai Xun (蔡勛), Liu Xuan (劉宣), Gong Sheng (龔勝), Bao Xuan (鮑宣)Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0305
- Relation: served-under · Person Id: Kong Guang (孔光)Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0007
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: earnest and sincere; emotion sincere, virtue full; benevolence touched insects and embryos · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · houhanshu:028:s0278, houhanshu:028:s0279
- Assessment: kind government laughed at by people of Mi · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · houhanshu:085:s0275
- Assessment: upright minor magistrate whose unprecedented early honor drew principled scholars to Guangwu · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
- Kind: character · Statement: generous, humane, deferential, affectionate, and disinclined to quarrel
References in the histories
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