Duan Pingzhong 段平仲

Other names

Family

• Descendant of Duan Da (段達)
  ancestor in the sixth generation 六代祖 · paternal line · 6 generations
  sixth-generation descendant 六代孫 · paternal line · 6 generations
  Sources vary in certainty · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 148; Old Book of Tang 157, passage 175

Origins and identity

• Lineage Duan of Wuwei · Ancestor Person Id Duan Da (段達)
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passages 147-148

Career and standing

• chief secretary 掌書記
  Appointed · At Huainan 淮南 · Recommender Person Id Li Fu (李復)
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 150
• chief secretary 掌書記
  Appointed · At Huainan 淮南 · Recommender Person Id Du You (杜佑)
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 150
• chief secretary 掌書記
  Appointed · At Huainan 淮南
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 177
• Investigating Censor 監察御史
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 152; Old Book of Tang 157, passage 179
• judge under the defender of the eastern capital 東都留守判官
  Appointed · At eastern capital 東都
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 167; Old Book of Tang 157, passage 194
• vice director of the Farms Office 屯田員外郎
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 194

Places and affiliations

• Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passages 147, 150; Old Book of Tang 157, passages 174, 179
• Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 299
• At Wuwei 武威
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 147; Old Book of Tang 157, passage 174
• At court 朝 · Relation Entered
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 152
• At Hua Prefecture (滑州) 滑州 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 151; Old Book of Tang 157, passage 178
• At Hua Prefecture (華州) 華州 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 151

Learning and skills

• Earned
  Credential Presented Scholar 進士
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 149; Old Book of Tang 157, passage 176

Works and attributed material

• AD 798 貞元十四年
  Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passages 156-157
• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passages 183-184

Events and relationships

• Blundered and was shouted out
  AD 798 貞元十四年 · Audience · Speaker · With Dezong (德宗)
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passages 186-192
• Blundered in audience
  AD 798 貞元十四年 · Court · Speaker
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passages 159-165
• Chosen for granary relief
  AD 798 貞元十四年 · Relief · Envoy · With Chen Gui (陳歸) · At capital 京師
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passages 158-159
• Chosen to open granaries
  AD 798 貞元十四年 · Relief mission · Envoy · With Chen Gui (陳歸) · At capital 京師
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passages 185-186
• Memorialized on court errors
  AD 806 元和初 · Political · Remonstrator
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 199
• Memorialized on court errors
  Political · Memorialist
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 172

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment became famous because of the audience blunder · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 166
• Assessment became-famous-thereby · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 193
• Assessment bold remonstrance like touching the dragon's scales, perhaps to correct errors · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 299
• Assessment open and bold, esteemed integrity, loved wine, spoke with proud directness · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 153
• Assessment uncompromising uprightness (狷直) · Assessor contemporaries · Mode named-source-report
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 172
• Assessment uncompromising-uprightness · Mode contemporary-judgment Source 時人
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 199

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 147
• Value historical
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passages 174, 299