Liu Zan (劉讚) | 24 Histories

Overview

Liu Zan was a Censor and minister.

IdentityHistorical · Male

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Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal name	Zan	瓚	Zan

Life and dates

Death

AD 935 清泰二年
At Shihui Pass 石會關 · Age Value: 60 · As: over
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 172

Age

60
Reckoning Over · Context at death
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 172

Attested activity

AD 930 乙酉
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 41, passage 195
AD 926 to AD 930 天成中
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 148
AD 935 清泰二年春
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 171
AD 930 to AD 933 長興中
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 51, passages 101, 105
AD 931 長興二年
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 42, passage 168

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Liu Bi (劉比)
father 父
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 141
Spouse of Lady Heganshi (紇幹氏)
wife 妻
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 172

Kinship Role widow and young children · Count 2
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 149

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Career and standing

Censor-in-chief 御史中丞
AD 930 乙酉 · Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 41, passage 195
Vice Minister of Punishments; formerly Censor-in-chief 刑部侍郎、御史中丞
AD 931 長興二年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 42, passage 168
Tutor of the Prince of Qin 秦王傅
Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 152
Secretariat aide 中書舍人
Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 41, passage 195
Vice Minister of Justice; prince tutor 刑部侍郎；王傅
Nominated
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 51, passage 105
long exile to Lanzhou 長流嵐州
Suffered
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 170

Places and affiliations

At Weizhou 魏州 · Relation Native
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 139

Learning and skills

Earned
Credential Presented Scholar 進士
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 144

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · With Li Congrong (李從榮) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 166
Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 169

Events and relationships

Managed funeral
Funeral · Mourner · With Dou Mengzheng (竇夢徵)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 149
Relation Friend of · Person Dou Mengzheng (竇夢徵)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 149
Relation Client of · Person Liu Xun (劉鄩)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 145
Relation Teacher of · Person Li Congrong (李從榮)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passages 152, 161
Relation Client of · Person Zhao Yan (趙岩)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 146
Relation Client of · Person Luo Shaowei (羅紹威)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 145

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Relation Colleague of · Person Yang Ningshi (楊凝式)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 149
Relation Recommended by · Person Kong Qian (孔謙)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 147

Assessments and attributes

Assessment gentle, cautious, immovable by private appeals · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 151

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 41Volume 41 Book of Later Tang 17: Mingzong Annals 7 · 1 passage

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以中書舍人劉讚為御史中丞，以御史中丞許光義為兵部侍即，以兵部侍郎姚顗為吏部侍郎。 Liu Zan became censor-in-chief; Xu Guangyi became vice war minister; Yao Yi became vice personnel minister.

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

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以御史中丞劉讚為刑部侍郎，以鳳州節度使孫嶽充西面閣道使。 Liu Zan, censor-in-chief, became punishments vice minister; Sun Yue of Feng became western pass commissioner.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 51Volume 51 Book of Later Tang 27: Biographies 3: Imperial Family · 1 passage

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從榮乃奏刑部侍郎劉讚為王傅，又奏翰林學士崔棁為元帥府判官。 Congrong then nominated Vice Minister of Justice Liu Zan as his tutor and Hanlin Academician Cui Zhuo as chief administrator of the marshal's headquarters.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 16 passages

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劉讚，魏州人也。 Liu Zan was a native of Weizhou.

比每肉食，別置蔬食以飯讚，謂之曰：「肉食，君之祿也。 Whenever Bi ate meat he set vegetables before Zan and said, "Meat is an official's perquisite.

由是讚及冠有文辭，年三十餘登進士第。 Zan grew into a polished writer and passed the jinshi examination in his thirties.

莊宗入汴，租庸副使孔謙以讚里人，表為鹽鐵判官。 When Zhuangzong took Bian, Deputy Grain-Tax Commissioner Kong Qian, a fellow townsman, recommended Zan as salt and iron commissioner.

與學士竇夢徵同年登第，鄰居友善，夢徵卒，讚與同年楊凝式緦麻為位而哭，其家無嫡長，與視喪事，恤其孀稚，人士稱之。 He had passed the jinshi in the same year as Hanlin academician Dou Mengzheng, and they were friendly neighbors. When Mengzheng died, Zan and his year-mate Yang Ningshi donned hemp mourning and wept at the bier. The family had no eldest son, so Zan helped manage the funeral and cared for the widow and children — conduct widely praised.

讚性雍和，與物無忤，居官畏慎，人若以私幹之，雖權豪不能移其操。 Zan was gentle and easy in manner, careful in office, and immovable in principle — even the powerful could not sway him with private appeals.

〈（《冊府元龜》：秦王為元帥，秦王府判官、太子詹事王居敏與讚鄉曲之舊，以秦王盛年自恣，須朝中選端士納誨，冀其稟畏，乃奏薦讚焉。）〉 (The Prime Tortoise records that when the Prince of Qin was grand marshal, Wang Jumin, judge of the Qin princely mansion and grand mentor of the heir apparent, an old fellow townsman of Zan, recommended him because the young prince was self-indulgent and needed upright court scholars to admonish him.)〉

讚節概貞素，忽聞其命，掩泣固辭，竟不能止。 A man of plain integrity, Zan wept and firmly declined when he heard of the appointment, but could not refuse it.

〈（案《通鑒》：瓚自以左遷，泣訴，不得免。 (The Zizhi Tongjian records that Zan regarded the appointment as a demotion, wept and pleaded, and could not be excused.

言蓋以從榮輕佻峻急，恐豫其禍，故求脫耳。）〉 The comment suggests Zan feared Congrong's rash and violent character and sought to escape before disaster struck.)〉

時秦王參佐，皆新進小生，動多輕脫，每稱頌秦王功德，阿意順旨，隻奉談笑，惟讚從容諷議，必獻嘉言。 The prince's staff were young upstarts, frivolous and eager to flatter. They praised his virtues and joined his revels — only Zan spoke with measured admonition and offered sound counsel.