Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Liu Song official

Fan Bonian 范柏年

First attested AD 465; died AD 479 to AD 480

Passages: 12
Chapters: 3
Histories: 2

Overview

Fan Bonian was a Liu Song official.

Life and dates

Death

AD 479 升明三年
Execution
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 21, passage 24
AD 479 to AD 480 建元元年
Execution
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 59, passages 88, 97

Attested activity

AD 479 升明三年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 21, passages 16, 24
AD 465 to AD 471 宋泰始中
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 21, passage 26
AD 479 to AD 480 建元元年
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 59, passages 88, 94-95, 97
AD 477 昇明元年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Song 10, passage 56

Key source chapters

Origins and identity

local magnate clan 土豪
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 21, passage 25

Career and standing

administrator of Jinshou 晉壽太守
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 21, passage 27
Inspector of Liangzhou 梁州刺史
AD 479 to AD 480 建元元年 · Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 59, passages 88, 94
Inspector of Liangzhou 梁州刺史
AD 477 昇明元年 · Held
Directly stated · Book of Song 10, passage 56
gentleman of the grain bureaus 倉部郎
Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 21, passage 26
inspector of Liang 梁州刺史
Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 21, passage 20
Suffered
AD 479 to AD 480 建元元年 · Executed
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 59, passage 88

Places and affiliations

Polity Id liu-song · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Song 10, passage 56
At Zitong 梓潼
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 21, passage 25
At Huayang 華陽 · Relation Resided at
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 21, passage 25

Events and relationships

Defeated
Military · Commander · With Su Daoshi (蘇道熾)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 21, passage 20
Defeated
Military · Commander · With Yang Cheng (楊城)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 21, passage 20
Induced surrender
Military · Commander · With Li Wunu (李烏奴)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 21, passage 20
Mustered forces with divided loyalty
AD 477 昇明元年 · Political · Actor
Directly stated · Book of Song 10, passage 56
Secretly sent into rebellion
AD 479 to AD 480 建元元年 · Political · Instigator · With Li Wunu (李烏奴)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 59, passage 95
Seized and executed
Political · Executed · With Crown Prince Wenhui (文惠太子) · At Xiangyang 襄陽
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 21, passage 24

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Relation Commander of · Person Li Wunu (李烏奴)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 59, passage 88

Assessments and attributes

AD 479 to AD 480 建元元年
Assessment harbored treacherous designs and wavered between two sides · Mode letter Speaker Prince of Yuzhang Yi (豫章王嶷)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 59, passage 94

References in the histories

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History

12 passages

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 21Volume 21 Biographies 2: Crown Prince Wenhui · 8 passages

先是，梁州刺史范柏年誘降晉壽亡命李烏奴，討平氐賊楊城、蘇道熾等，頗著威名。 Earlier Fan Bonian, inspector of Liang, had won over Li Wunu, a Jinshou outlaw, and put down the Di chiefs Yang Cheng and Su Daoshi, until his name carried weight.

沈攸之事起，柏年遣將陰廣宗領軍出魏興聲援京師，而候望形勢。 When Shen Youzhi rose, Bonian sent Yin Guangzong out of Weixing with an army, ostensibly to aid the capital while he read the wind.

烏奴勸柏年據漢中不受命，柏年計未決，玄邈已至，柏年遲回魏興不肯下。 Li Wunu urged Bonian to seize Hanzhong and defy the summons. Bonian wavered; Xuanmiao was already on the road, yet Bonian hung back at Weixing and would not descend.

太子慮其爲變，乃遣說柏年，許啓爲府長史，柏年乃進襄陽，因執誅之。 The prince, fearing a mutiny, sent envoys promising to name Bonian chief steward of his staff if he came in. Bonian marched to Xiangyang—and was seized and put to death.

柏年，梓潼人，徙居華陽，世爲土豪，知名州里。 Bonian came from Zitong and had settled in Huayang; for generations his clan had been great landlords, famed in the province.

宋泰始中，氐寇斷晉壽道，柏年以倉部郎假節領數百人慰勞通路，自益州道報命。 In Song's Taishi era Di raiders severed the Jinshou road. Bonian, then gentleman of the grain bureaus, took the staff and led several hundred men to reopen the route and hearten the garrisons, then returned by the Yizhou road to report.

柏年強立，善言事，以應對爲宋明帝所知。 Bonian was imposing in person and quick in counsel; Emperor Ming of Song prized his repartee.

旣被誅，巴西太守柳弘稱啓太祖，敕答曰：「柏年幸可不爾，爲之恨恨！」 After the execution Liu Hong of Baxi memorialized Xiao Daocheng. The reply read, "Bonian might have been spared this—I grieve for it!"

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 59Volume 59 Biographies 40: Other Peoples from Henan, the Di People, and Qiang · 3 passages

梁州刺史范柏年被誅，其親將李烏奴懼奔叛，文弘納之。 Fan Bonian, inspector of Liangzhou, was executed; his trusted officer Li Wunu, fearing for his life, fled in rebellion, and Wenhong took him in.

梁州刺史范柏年懷挾詭態，首鼠兩端，旣已被伐，盤桓稽命。 Fan Bonian, inspector of Liangzhou, harbored treacherous designs and wavered between two sides; though already punished, he lingered and delayed his end.

柏年今已梟禽，烏奴頻被摧破，計其餘燼，行自消夷。 Bonian has already been executed; Wunu has been repeatedly defeated—their remaining embers will soon die out on their own.

Book of Song, Chapter 10Volume 10 Annals 10: Emperor Shun · 1 passage

司州刺史姚道和、梁州刺史范栢年、湘州行事庾佩玉擁眾懷貳。 Yao Daohe, Inspector of Sizhou; Fan Bonian, Inspector of Liangzhou; and Yu Peiyu, acting for Xiangzhou, all raised forces with divided loyalties.