Zheng Zhiyong (鄭致雍)

Overview

Zheng Zhiyong was an official and Scholar.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 909 開平三年
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 83

Career and standing

Hanlin Academician 翰林學士
Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 83

Events and relationships

Relation Student of · Person Feng Shunqing (封舜卿)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 83

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 2 passages

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開平三年，奉使幽州，以門生鄭致雍從行，復命之日，又與致雍同受命入翰林為學士。 In Kaiping 3 (909) he was sent on a mission to Youzhou with his protégé Zheng Zhiyong as companion. On the day he reported back, both men were appointed Hanlin academicians.

致雍有俊才，舜卿雖有文辭，才思拙澀，及試五題，不勝困弊，因托致雍秉筆，當時譏者以為座主辱門生。 Zhiyong was brilliantly gifted. Shunqing had literary polish but slow, labored invention; when tested on five topics he was overwhelmed and asked Zhiyong to draft for him — contemporaries mocked it as a patron disgracing his protégé.