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Zeng Gongliang
Northern Song minister styled Mingzhong, a native of Jinjiang in Quanzhou, who with Ding Du was ordered to compile the Wujing Zongyao and in 1061 was named grand councilor.
In a council hall, a long table holds an unrolled map scroll, a brass-cornered chest and a brush pot, with tall-backed chairs around it and a bronze lamp at the left; a figure stands with their back turned on the balcony at the right, with palace roofs beyond.
Also known as Zi Mingzhong · Posthumous name Xuanjing
Zeng Gongliang, styled Mingzhong, was a native of Jinjiang in Quanzhou, born in 999 and died in 1078. He passed the jinshi examination and served under the emperors Renzong, Yingzong and Shenzong. As academician-in-waiting of the Tianzhang Hall he was ordered, together with Ding Du and others, to compile the Wujing Zongyao between 1040 and 1044, and the work was finished in 1044. In 1061 he was named vice minister of personnel, grand councilor with the title Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, and grand academician of the Jixian Hall. Under Shenzong he was given the added post of vice director of the chancellery and minister of personnel, was made Duke of Lu, and in 1070 was named Sikong and palace attendant; he later retired as Grand Tutor. He directed the compilation of the Veritable Records of Emperor Yingzong and took part in compiling the New Book of Tang. His posthumous name was Xuanjing.
Life and times
- 999 CEBorn
Song - 1078 CEDied
Works
Literature · Prose1- Wujing ZongyaoSongNorthern Song military compendium, in two collections, with an imperial preface by Renzong