Mao Pan (born 1496, died 1555) was a Ming official. His courtesy name was Xinzhi, his sobriquet Haimen, and his generational designation was San; he was a native of Dantu County in Zhili.
Career
He was listed as a shengyuan with a ranking of 170; he passed the Yingtian Prefecture provincial examination, for which the ranking is given as 107th in one account and 231st in another. In the eleventh year of the Jiajing reign (1532), he ranked 231st in the renchen metropolitan examination and obtained the jinshi degree in the second class, 37th place.
After serving as guanzheng in the Ministry of Rites, he was appointed zhushi in the Henan Section of the Ministry of Revenue, rose through yuanwailang and langzhong, and became prefect of Pingyang and then Dean. His later career took him to assistant surveillance commissioner in Yunnan and, after reinstatement, to deputy commissioner in Shaanxi; he ultimately served as right canzheng of Zhejiang. The offices are also expressed as assistant surveillance commissioner, military-training deputy commissioner, and right assistant chief councillor, while the Zhejiang post is recorded as a right assistant administrative commissioner.
In the twelfth month of the thirty-first year of Jiajing (1552), he was dismissed after an evaluation for avarice. He died in the thirty-fourth year (1555), aged sixty.
Family and associations
His great-grandfather was Mao Yi, his grandfather Mao Yu, and his father Mao Jian; his mother was Nie and his stepmother Fei. His elder brothers were Mao Jian and Mao Luan, and his younger brothers were Mao Jin and Mao Zi; one wife is unnamed, and his second wife was Feng.
His sons were Mao Xun, Mao Gai, Mao Zhan, Mao (name unspecified), Mao Pan, Mao Jia, Mao Luo, and Mao Fen. They also included Mao Yuan, Mao Chongwei, Mao Chongyi, Mao Chongya, Mao Chongsi, Mao Chongfu, Mao Chongxiu, and Mao Chongbo. His grandsons included Mao Chongcai, Mao Chongben, Mao Chongrong, Mao Chongjun, Mao Chongdong, Mao Dajing, Mao Daxun, Mao Daxi, Mao Danian, Mao Dayao, and Mao Dachang.
Other grandsons were Mao Dashou, Mao Dazhang, Mao Dasheng, Mao Datong, Mao Dayue, Mao Dayou, Mao Dacong, and Mao Dabi; three further names are Mao Dadu, Mao Daying, and Mao Daqin. He had literary exchanges with Lü Gao, receiving poems and prose from him; Lü Gao also composed a sacrificial text for him.
References
- CBDB Mao Pan (129186)
- 搜韵 茅鎜 (116692)
- Wikidata Mao Pan (Q45445470)