Song, Liao, and Jin · Official

Zhao Bian 趙抃

Attested AD 1060 - AD 1084

Passages: 3
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Zhao Bian was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1060 to AD 1084 宋
Directly stated · History of Yuan 192, passage 214
AD 1069 熙寧二年
Directly stated · History of Song 110, passage 123

Key source chapters

History of Yuan, Chapter 192 Volume 192 Biographies 79: Virtuous Officials 2 2 passages
History of Song, Chapter 110 Volume 110 Treatises 63: Rites 13 1 passage

Career and standing

Acting Minister over the Masses 攝司徒
Held
Directly stated · History of Song 110, passage 123

Places and affiliations

Song 宋
Relation Served
Directly stated · History of Yuan 192, passage 214

Events and relationships

Dug irrigation canal
Engineering · Builder · At Chong'an 崇安
Directly stated · History of Yuan 192, passage 214

References in the histories

History of Song, Chapter 110Volume 110 Treatises 63: Rites 13 · 1 passage

熙寧二年，神宗尊皇太后曹氏為太皇太后，詣文德殿跪奉玉冊授攝太尉曾公亮、金寶授攝司徒韓絳，又跪奉皇太后高氏玉冊授攝太尉文彥博、金寶授攝司徒趙抃，禮畢，百官稱賀。 In Xining 2, 1069, Shenzong honored Empress Dowager Cao as grand empress dowager. At Wende Hall he knelt and presented the jade patent to Acting Grand Commandant Zeng Gongliang and the gold seal to Acting Minister over the Masses Han Jiang. He knelt again and presented the jade patent of Empress Dowager Gao to Acting Grand Commandant Wen Yanbo and the gold seal to Acting Minister over the Masses Zhao Bian. When the rites were complete, all officials offered congratulations.

History of Yuan, Chapter 192Volume 192 Biographies 79: Virtuous Officials 2 · 2 passages

邑有宋趙抃所鑿溝，溉民田數千畝。 The district had a canal dug by Zhao Bian of the Song, which irrigated several thousand mu of farmland.

伯顏修長溝十里，繞楓樹陂，累石以為固，溝悉复抃遺跡，而田為常稔，民賴其利。 Boyan restored the long canal for ten li, routing it around Maple Tree Dam and reinforcing it with stone; the watercourse fully recovered Bian's original layout, the fields yielded reliably again, and the people prospered from it.