Five Dynasties · Clerk to Yang Shihou

Tian Wen 田溫

Tián Wēn

Attested AD 912

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Tian Wen was a Clerk to Yang Shihou.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 912 during Zhu Yougui's reign
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 23, passage 26

Events and relationships

Urged Yang Shihou not to answer Yougui's summons
Political · Adviser · With Yang Shihou (楊師厚), Yougui (友珪)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 23, passage 26
Relation Clerk to · Person Yang Shihou (楊師厚)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 23, passage 26

References in the histories

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 23Volume 23 Later Liang Biographies 3: Yang Shihou, Wang Jingren, He Gui, Wang Tan, Ma Sixun, Wang Qianyu, Xie Yanzhang · 1 passage

其吏田溫等勸師厚勿行，師厚曰：「吾二十年不負朱家，今若不行，則見疑而生事，然吾知上為人，雖往，無如我何也。」 His clerk Tian Wen and others begged him not to go. Shihou said: “For twenty years I have never failed the Zhu house. If I stay away now, suspicion will breed trouble. Still, I know the man on the throne—even if I go, he cannot touch me.”