Sui and Tang · Official and Scholar

Zhu Qinming 祝欽明

Attested AD 705 - AD 710

Passages: 2
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhu Qinming was an official and Scholar.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 705 to AD 710 AD 705-710
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 113, passage 55
AD 707 to AD 710 景龍中
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 85, passage 63
AD 705 to AD 707 至忠劾祝欽明、竇希玠與承嘉等罪
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 123, passage 100

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Impeached
Impeached · Authority Xiao Zhizhong (蕭至忠)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 123, passage 100

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 123, passage 100

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 123, passage 100

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 113Volume 113 Biographies 38: Tang, Zhang, Xu · 1 passage

中宗始郊，國子祭酒祝欽明等知韋後能制天子，欲迎諂之，即奏以皇后亞獻，安樂公主終獻，又四時及列帝誕日，遣使者詣陵如事生。 When Emperor Zhongzong first performed the suburban sacrifice, National University Libationer Zhu Qinming and others, knowing Empress Wei could dominate the emperor, sought to flatter her. They memorialized that the empress perform the secondary offering and Princess Anle the final offering, and that envoys be sent to the imperial tombs in all four seasons and on successive emperors' birth anniversaries as though the dead were still living.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 123Volume 123 Biographies 48: Li, Xiao, Lu, Wei, Zhao, He · 1 passage

至是，承嘉為戶部尚書，至忠劾祝欽明、竇希玠與承嘉等罪，百寮震悚。 By then Chengjia was Minister of Revenue; Zhizhong impeached Zhu Qinming, Dou Xijie, Chengjia, and others for crimes, and the entire bureaucracy trembled.