田明 / Tian Ming (late Han)

Overview

田明 / Tian Ming is the Jiangxia commandery official paired with 马融 in Hanji 836. His brief profile matters because he shows the lethal edge of Liang Ji’s retaliation: the same monitored visit that Ma Rong survives leads Tian Ming into exile and death.

Current Profile

The source introduces Tian Ming as a newly appointed Jiangxia taishou traveling to his post. He and Ma Rong pass 梁不疑’s household and visit him, apparently as ordinary elite social contact.

After 梁冀 learns of the visit, Tian Ming is given a separate framed accusation from Ma Rong’s corruption charge. He receives hair-removal punishment and flogging and is exiled to Shuofang, where the episode says he dies.

Tian Ming’s current wiki role is therefore source-bounded: he is not a full biography yet, but a case in which outer-relative suspicion turns a social visit into irreversible career and life damage.

Key Characteristics

• Jiangxia taishou whose known wiki role is tied to the Liang Buyi visit.
• Paired victim with Ma Rong in Liang Ji’s retaliation against scholar-official contact.
• Exile casualty whose punishment shows that source-scoped framed charges could become fatal.

Evidence

• Office and visit: Hanji 836 says Tian Ming is newly appointed to Jiangxia and visits Liang Buyi while traveling.
• Retaliatory accusation: Hanji 836 says Liang Ji’s side creates a charge against Tian Ming after the visit.
• Punishment and death: Hanji 836 says Tian Ming receives hair-removal punishment, flogging, and exile to Shuofang, and dies during that exile.

Qualifications

This page is intentionally narrow. The source does not supply Tian Ming’s earlier career, family background, full charge, or exact death circumstances, so those details remain outside the current wiki evidence.

What Changed

• Created Tian Ming as Hanji 836’s exile casualty in Liang Ji’s retaliation against Liang Buyi’s visitors.

Relationships

• 马融 - paired official punished after the same visit to Liang Buyi.
• 梁不疑 - monitored household figure whom Tian Ming visits.
• 梁冀 - powerholder whose retaliation creates Tian Ming’s punishment path.
• 髡刑式身份羞辱 - punishment concept illustrated by Tian Ming’s hair-removal and exile.
• 报复性政治恐怖 - broader pattern in which political suspicion turns contact into punishment.