魏征 / Wei Zheng (Tang)

Overview

魏征 / Wei Zheng enters this wiki through Hanji 467 as the positive contrast to 贡禹’s selective truth-telling. The episode invokes him as a Tang official whose direct remonstrance became a model of loyal speech under 唐太宗.

Current Profile

The source does not build a full Wei Zheng biography. It uses him as a public-duty exemplar: an official should not keep dangerous words in the throat when crisis is visible. His later remembrance through Taizong’s mirror metaphor gives the episode a ruler-side condition as well: direct remonstrance becomes durable when the ruler can receive it.

Key Characteristics

• Tang official used as a model of direct remonstrance.
• Cited for treating unspoken warning as disloyal when danger is visible.
• Remembered through Emperor Taizong’s mirror metaphor after his death.
• Functions as a contrast case to true but evasive speech.

Evidence

• Direct-remonstrance model: Hanji 467 says Wei Zheng repeatedly remonstrates and becomes a later model of loyal direct speech.
• Ruler-side reception: Hanji 467 notes that Wei Zheng’s survival and reputation also depend on meeting a ruler like Emperor Taizong.
• Contrast function: Hanji 467 uses Wei Zheng against Gong Yu’s safer thrift advice.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 467 and does not reconstruct Wei Zheng’s full career, texts, offices, relationship with Emperor Taizong, or the historical accuracy of the source’s cited sayings.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 467’s use of Wei Zheng as the direct-remonstrance contrast to Gong Yu.

Relationships

• 真实但避重就轻的进谏 - contrast concept because Wei Zheng represents direct naming rather than safer truthful omission.
• 士大夫公共责任 - duty frame for why warning speech cannot remain private when danger is visible.
• 贡禹 - contrasted official whose truthful thrift advice avoids the episode’s central danger.
• 唐太宗 - ruler-side condition for Wei Zheng’s remembered direct-speech role.