Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Military Officer

Pan Chang 潘敞

Attested AD 483 - AD 493

Passages: 3
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Pan Chang was a Military Officer.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 493 戊寅
Dated from the passage context · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 181
AD 483 to AD 493 永明
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 165

Key source chapters

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 56 Volume 56 Biographies 37: Trusted Officials 2 passages
Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Chapter 138 Volume 138 Qi Records 4 1 passage

Career and standing

Captain of the Tiger Guard 虎賁中郎將
Held
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 181
Imprisoned
Imprisoned
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 167

Places and affiliations

Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 181

Events and relationships

Stationed two hundred armed men on western steps
AD 493 戊寅 · Military · Commander · With Ziliang (子良)
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 181

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 181

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 56Volume 56 Biographies 37: Trusted Officials · 2 passages

虎賁中郎將潘敞掌監功作。 Commander of the Tiger Guards Pan Chang supervised construction work.

敞喜，要呂文顯私登寺南門樓，上知之，繫敞上方，而出文顯爲南譙郡，久之乃復。 Chang rejoiced and invited Lü Wenxian to climb privately to the temple's south gate tower. When the emperor learned of it, he imprisoned Chang in the imperial residence and sent Wenxian out as governor of Nanqiao commandery. Only after a long time was Wenxian restored.

Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Chapter 138Volume 138 Qi Records 4 · 1 passage

大行出太極殿，子良居中書省，帝使虎賁中郎將潘敞領二百人仗屯太極西階以防之。 When the imperial coffin was borne out of the Hall of Supreme Ultimate, Ziliang remained in the Secretariat; the emperor sent Captain of the Tiger Guard Pan Chang with two hundred armed men to hold the western steps of the Hall of Supreme Ultimate and guard against him.