Luo Gun (羅袞) | 24 Histories

Overview

Luo Gun was a Writer.

PeriodSui and Tang

IdentityHistorical · Male

Roles

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Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 903 昭宗誅韓全誨等
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 178, passage 295
AD 904 to AD 907 時有司初定昭宗諡號
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 60, passage 225

Key source chapters

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 60 Volume 60 Book of Later Tang 36: Biographies 12: Li Xiji, Wang Jian, Li Jingyi, Lu Rubi, Li Dexiu, Su Xun 1 passage
New Book of Tang, Chapter 178 Volume 178 Biographies 103: Liu Fen 1 passage

Career and standing

Left Reminder 左拾遺
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 178, passage 295

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 178, passage 295

Works and attributed material

Su Kai's essays and memorial 其文
Relation Author · With Su Kai (蘇楷) · Mode named-source-report Source Work Old Book of Tang 舊唐書
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 60, passage 225
Memorial · Author · Addressed to Emperor Zhaozong (昭宗)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 178, passages 295-298

Events and relationships

Relation Ghostwriter for · Person Su Kai (蘇楷)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 60, passage 225

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 178, passage 295

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 60Volume 60 Book of Later Tang 36: Biographies 12: Li Xiji, Wang Jian, Li Jingyi, Lu Rubi, Li Dexiu, Su Xun · 1 passage

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〈（《舊唐書》云：蘇楷目不知書，僅能執筆，其文羅袞作也。）〉 (Old Book of Tang: Su Kai could scarcely read; he could barely hold a brush—his essays were written by Luo Gun.)〉

New Book of Tang, Chapter 178Volume 178 Biographies 103: Liu Fen · 1 passage

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及昭宗誅韓全誨等，左拾遺羅袞上言：「蕡當太和時，宦官始熾，因直言策請奪爵土，復掃除之役，遂罹譴逐，身死異土，六十餘年，正人義夫切齒飲泣。 When Emperor Zhaozong executed Han Quanhui and others, Left Reminder Luo Gun submitted words: "In the Taihe era, when eunuchs were just growing fierce, Fen in his straightforward examination answers asked to strip them of noble ranks and fiefs and restore the task of sweeping them away — thereby he suffered reprimand and exile and died in a foreign land; for more than sixty years upright men and men of righteousness gnashed their teeth and wept.