Sui and Tang · Tang Official

Zheng Pu 鄭樸

Attested AD 840 - AD 859

Passages: 2
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Zheng Pu was a Tang Official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 847 to AD 859 宣宗時
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 184, passages 121, 131
AD 840 to AD 846 武宗時
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 44, passage 203

Key source chapters

New Book of Tang, Chapter 44 Volume 44 Treatises 39: Selecting and Appointing Officials 1 1 passage
New Book of Tang, Chapter 184 Volume 184 Biographies 109: Ma, Yang, Lu, Lu 1 passage

Career and standing

Examination candidate from an eminent house
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 131
demoted 黜
Demotion · Demoted · Authority Emperor Wuzong of Tang (唐武宗)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 44, passage 203

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 44, passage 203

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 44, passage 203

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 44Volume 44 Treatises 39: Selecting and Appointing Officials 1 · 1 passage

昨黜楊知至、鄭樸等，抑其太甚耳。 When I demoted Yang Zhizhi, Zheng Pu, and the others yesterday, I was only reining in excesses that had gone too far.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 184Volume 184 Biographies 109: Ma, Yang, Lu, Lu · 1 passage

時王起選士三十人，而楊知至、竇緘、源重、鄭樸及嚴五人皆世胄，起以聞，詔獨收嚴。 Wang Qi then selected thirty candidates; Yang Zhizhi, Dou Jian, Yuan Chong, Zheng Pu, and Yan—five men from eminent houses—were among them; Qi reported this, and an edict ordered Yan alone accepted.