A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Ch'ao Tuan-yen

by Herbert A. Giles

205 Ch'ao Tuan-yen 晁端彥 (T. 叔美). Born A.D. 1035. The descendant of a long line of statesmen and writers, and father of Ch'ao Pu-chih. He was born on the same day as Chang Tun; their names were published as graduates on the same list, and they both received their appointments at the same time. Hence they came to be called the 三同 Three Sames. Later on, the political conduct of Chang Tun was such that Ch'ao was forced to impeach him. "We are no longer the Three Sames," he said, "but rather the Hundred Differents." He gained some reputation as a poet, and rose to be sub-Librarian in the Imperial Library.