Background
It is not known when Pei Mian was born. He was from a prominent clan of Hedong (河東, in modern Yuncheng, Shanxi), which traced its ancestry to officials of Han Dynasty, Cao Wei, Jin Dynasty (265-420), Former Yan, Later Qin, Northern Wei, and Tang Dynasty. His grandfather Wei Zhi (韋陟) served as a military advisor to a prefectural prefect, and his father Wei Ji (韋紀) served as the secretary general for Chang'an County, one of the two counties making up the Tang capital Chang'an.
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