Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official

Ni Zong 倪宗

Ní Zōng

Attested AD 421 - AD 423

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Ni Zong was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 421 to AD 423 after 永初二年 and before 景平元年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Song 56, passages 148, 159, 184

Career and standing

clerk of the Director of the Imperial Secretariat 尚書令省事
Held
Directly stated · Book of Song 56, passage 159
Referred to the clerical censor for investigation and disposition
Directly stated · Book of Song 56, passage 174

Works and attributed material

Statement · Speaker · Topic threat against the censor's arrests · Mode direct-speech Speaker Ni Zong (倪宗)
Directly stated · Book of Song 56, passages 160-161

Events and relationships

Joined attacks on Kong Linzhi's subordinates and led the forcible seizure of a prisoner
Violent confrontation · With Kong Linzhi (孔琳之)
Directly stated · Book of Song 56, passages 159-161, 164, 168, 172, 174

References in the histories

Book of Song, Chapter 56Volume 56 Biographies 16: Xie Zhan, Kong Linzhi · 6 passages

尚書令省事倪宗又牽威儀手力，擊臣下人。 Ni Zong, clerk of the minister of works, also pulled the ceremonial attendants' men and struck my subordinates.

宗云：『中丞何得行凶，敢錄令公人。 Zong said, 'How dare the censor commit violence and seize the minister's men!

臣自錄非，本無對校，而宗敢乘勢凶恣，篡奪罪身。 I was taking the record myself; there was no confrontation—yet Zong dared, riding the wave of violence, to seize the prisoner by force.

陵犯監司，凶聲彰赫，容縱宗等，曾無糾問，虧損國威，無大臣之體，不有準繩，風裁何寄。 He allowed assault on the censorate; his violent reputation was notorious; he indulged Zong and the rest without inquiry or correction—damaging the state's authority and lacking the bearing of a great minister; without standards, upon what can moral discipline rest?

又宗為篡奪之主，縱不糾問，二三虧違，宜有裁貶。 Moreover Zong led the forcible seizure; even if he is not prosecuted, these breaches warrant censure and demotion.

宗等篡奪之愆，已屬掌故禦史隨事檢處。」 The offense of Zong and the rest has already been referred to the clerical censor for investigation and disposition."