Gao Qianzhi

In this Chinese name, the family name is Gao (高).

Gao Qianzhi (Chinese: 高謙之; pinyin: Gāo qiānzhī, 486–527 CE) was a bureaucrat, literati, and scholar of the Northern Wei Dynasty with the courtesy name of Daorang (Chinese: 道讓; pinyin: Dào ràng). He was from Bohai Commandery.

History

He was born to Northern Wei nobleman and official Gao Chong.[1] He was raised by his stepmother Li, who made no distinctions between her children and him, and Qianzhi showed filial piety towards her.[2] When he grew up, he read widely, not only classics and histories, but also astronomy and maps.[3][4][2] He inherited his father's title, and was given the title of General Xuanwei (Chinese: 宣威將軍; pinyin: Xuān wēi jiāngjūn).[5] He was promoted to Che Duwei (Chinese: 奉車都尉; pinyin: Fèng chē dū wèi) and Tingwei Cheng (Chinese: 廷尉丞; pinyin: Tíng wèi chéng).[6]

In 525 (first year of Xiaochang), he acted as the county magistrate of Heyin. He soon received the title of General Ningyuan (Chinese: 寧遠將軍; pinyin: Níngyuǎn jiāngjūn).[7] Gao Qianzhi spent two years in Heyin, making profits and losses on the political system, and he often studied the old rules. At that time, his younger brother Gao Daomu (that is, Gao Gongzhi, courtesy name Daomu) was the censor. He also had a reputation for being talented.[8] He made a plea for fair reward and punishment, which caught the attention of Empress Dowager Hu, who appointed him Guozi official (Chinese: 國子博士; pinyin: Guó zǐ bóshì). He inquired about the history of the Northern Liang Juqu clan and compiled the Liang Shu (Chinese: 涼書; pinyin: Liáng shū) in ten volumes.[9]

In 527 (in the third year of Xiaochang), when the Imperial Court planned to mint coins, he ordered the minting of three coins. Although this plan was accepted, it was not implemented during his lifetime.

Always in the third year of Xiaochang (527), he was framed by Li Shengui and died in prison on the eve of the amnesty at the age of forty-two. During the Yong'an period, he was given the posthumous titles of Provincial Governor of Yingzhou (Chinese: 營州刺史; pinyin: Yíng zhōu cìshǐ) and Conscript General (Chinese: 徵虜將軍; pinyin: Zhǐ lǔ jiāngjūn), and was given the posthumous name of "Kang" (Chinese: 康; pinyin: Kāng).[10][11]

Over 100 articles written by him during his lifetime were collected and compiled into an anthology.

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References

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  3. ^ The History of the North, Volume Fifty, Biography Thirty-Eighth
  4. ^ Book of Wei, Volume Seventy-seven, Biography Sixty-fifth
  5. ^ 許嘉璐; 安平秋 (2004). 二十四史全譯: 北史(no.1-4) (in Chinese). 漢語大詞典出版社. p. 1480.
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  7. ^ Northern History, Volume Fifty, Biography Thirty-Eighth.
  8. ^ Northern History, Volume Fifty, Biography Thirty-Eighth.
  9. ^ Northern History, Volume Fifty, Biography Thirty-Eighth.
  10. ^ Volume fifty biography thirty-eighth - Northern History (Tang) Li Yanshou.
  11. ^ Mingdong Lu; Qingzhang Lin; Qiuhua Jiang; 林慶彰; 盧鳴東; 蔣秋華, eds. (2015). 中日韓經學國際學術硏討會論文集 (in Chinese). 萬卷樓. ISBN 9789577397546. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  12. ^ Chen (Ming), Yaowen (1850). Tian zhong ji Volume 2 (in Chinese). Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  13. ^ a b c d 高路加, ed. (2015). 高姓简史 (in Chinese). 江西人民出版社. ISBN 9787210077862. Retrieved 31 October 2022.