Zu Ting (祖珽) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zu Ting as an official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 12 passages from 6 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zu Ting	祖珽	Zu Ting
Given name	Ting	珽	Tǐng
Given	Ting	珽	Ting
Alternate name	Ziye	子野
Personal name	Zu Ting	祖珽	Zu Ting
Personal	Zu Ting	祖珽	Zǔ Tǐng
Personal name	Zu Ting	祖珽	Zǔ Tǐng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · beiqishu:033:s0147
Sex: male
Explicit · beiqishu:047:s0150, zizhitongjian:159:s0270s

Roles

Official
Scholar
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 後主 · Western Interval: Start: AD 570 · End: AD 576
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:050:s0187
Source Date: Text: 攻玉壁 · Western Year: AD 546
Explicit event contextual date · zizhitongjian:159:s0270s
Source Date: Text: 武平元年前後 · Western Year: AD 570
Explicit · beiqishu:033:s0147
Source Date: Text: 為祖珽所間 · Western Year: AD 571
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:038:s0141
Source Date: Text: 祖珽 · Western Interval: Start: AD 560 · End: AD 570
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:047:s0150
Source Date: Text: 魏末 / 齊代魏前 · Western Interval: Start: c. AD 520 · End: AD 550
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:049:s0039

Family

Immediate source-linked family. Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom, and select a person to open their record.

Child of Ying (瑩)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Parent of Zu Junxin (祖君信)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: Adjutant of the Granary Section / 倉曹參軍 · Action: held
Explicit · zizhitongjian:159:s0270s

Places and affiliations

Polity: Eastern Wei / 東魏 · Relation: served
Explicit · zizhitongjian:159:s0270s

Works and attributed material

Kind: request · Role: speaker · Addressee Person Id: Xindu Fang (信都芳) · Quoted: true
Explicit · beiqishu:049:s0039
Kind: persuasion · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Wei Xiaokuan (韋孝寬)
Explicit · zizhitongjian:159:s0270s
Kind: speech · Role: speaker
Explicit · zizhitongjian:159:s0270x, zizhitongjian:159:s0270y

Events and relationships

Relation: envoy-of · Person Id: Gao Huan (高歡)
Explicit · zizhitongjian:159:s0270s

Assessments and attributes

Kind: illness · Statement: eye ailment
Explicit · beiqishu:033:s0149

References in the histories

Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 33Volume 33 Biographies 25: Xiao Yuanming; Xiao Zhi (Liang); Xiao Tui; Xiao Fang (Liang); Xu Zhicai · 3 passages

Open chapter

祖珽執政，除之才侍中、太子太師。 When Zu Ting held power he appointed Zhicai attendant-in-ordinary and grand tutor of the heir apparent.

之才恨曰：「子野沙汰我。」 Zhicai said resentfully, "Ziye has winnowed me out."

珽目疾，故以師曠比之。 Ting suffered from an eye ailment, so Zhicai compared him to Music Master Kuang.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 38Volume 38 Biographies 30: Xin Shu; Yuan Wenyao; Zhao Yanshen · 2 passages

Open chapter

武平二年拜司空，為祖珽所間，出為西兗州刺史。 In the second year of Wuping, he was appointed minister of works. After Zu Ting sowed estrangement against him, he was sent out as inspector of Western Yanzhou.

時馮子琮子慈明、祖珽子君信並相繼居中書，故時語云：「馮、祖及趙，穢我鳳池。」 At the time Feng Zicong's son Ciming and Zu Ting's son Junxin took the secretariat in turn, so people said, "Feng, Zu, and Zhao — they're fouling the phoenix pool."

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 47Volume 47 Biographies 39: Cruel Officials · 2 passages

Open chapter

初，祖珽知朝政，出彥深為刺史。 At first Zu Ting ran the government and sent Yanshen out as provincial inspector.

珽奏以士素為東郡守，中書侍郎李德林白珽留之，由是還除黃門侍郎，共參機密。 Ting memorialized to make Shisu administrator of Dong commandery; secretariat attendant Li Delin urged Ting to keep him, so he was recalled and made yellow gate attendant, again in confidential work.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 49Volume 49 Biographies 41: Arts · 1 passage

Open chapter

祖珽謂芳曰：「律管吹灰，術甚微妙，絕來旣久，吾思所不至，卿試思之。」 Zu Ting said, “The pitch-pipe ash test is subtle and long lost—I cannot recover it; try.”

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 50Volume 50 Biographies 42: Favored by Nobles · 1 passage

Open chapter

祖珽曾與鳳於後主前論事。 Zu Ting once debated policy with Feng before the Later Lord.

Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Chapter 159Volume 159 Liang Records 15 · 3 passages

Open chapter

珽，瑩之子也。 Ting was Ying's son.

歡無如之何，乃使倉曹參軍祖珽說之曰：「君獨守孤城，而西方無救，恐終不能全，何不降也？」 Huan could do nothing and sent Zu Ting of the granary registry to say, "You hold a lone city and the west sends no rescue—you cannot hold out; why not surrender?"

珽復謂城中人曰：「韋城主受彼榮祿，或復可爾； Ting told the city, "Commandant Wei takes their pay—perhaps that can be forgiven;