Bai Jingliang (白景亮)

Overview

The translated histories identify Bai Jingliang as an administrator and official. This record brings together 4 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Bai Jingliang	白景亮	Bái Jǐngliàng
Given	Jingliang	景亮	Jǐngliàng
Courtesy	Mingfu	明甫	Míngfǔ

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:192:s0131

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Death

Place: in office / 官
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0139

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 仕至衢州路總管 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1320 · End: AD 1350
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:192:s0133

Family

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Spouse of Wife of Bai Jingliang (白景亮妻)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife

Career and standing

Label: circuit intendant of Quzhou / 衢州路總管 · Action: appointed
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0133
Label: prefect of Nan'en / 南恩知州 · Action: appointed
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0133
Label: translator-clerk in Eastern Campaign Branch Secretariat / 征東行省譯史 · Action: held
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0133
Label: prefect of Mianyang / 沔陽府尹 · Action: promoted
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0133
Label: circuit intendant of Taizhou / 台州路總管 · Action: transferred
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0138
Label: imperial commendation and palace brocade / 特詔褒美，賜以宮錦 · Action: bestowed
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0138

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: yuan · Relation: served
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0133
Place: Nanyang / 南陽
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0131

Learning and skills

Skill: writing and calculation / 書算 · Level: skilled
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0132
Skill: law / 法律 · Level: versed
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0132

Events and relationships

Kind: administrative · Role: intendant · Action: equalized-corvee-by-acreage
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0134, yuanshi:192:s0135

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: incorrupt-frugal · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0137

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 192Volume 192 Biographies 79: Virtuous Officials 2 · 4 passages

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白景亮，字明甫，南陽人。 Bai Jingliang, courtesy name Mingfu, was a native of Nanyang.

景亮深知其弊，乃始核驗田畝以均之，役之輕重，一視田之多寡，大小家各使得宜，咸便安之，由是民不勞而事易集，他郡邑皆取以為法。 Jingliang understood this abuse well; he verified field acreage and equalized levies so that corvée fell solely according to land held; large and small households alike were treated fairly; the people were not overburdened and tasks were easily completed, and other prefectures adopted his method as a model.

郡學之政久弛，從祀諸賢無塑像，諸生無廩膳，祭服樂器有缺，景亮皆為備之，儒風大振，縉紳稱頌焉。 The prefectural school had long been neglected: the sages in the temple had no statues, students had no stipends, and sacrificial robes and instruments were missing; Jingliang supplied them all; Confucian learning flourished, and the gentry praised him.

景亮性廉介勤苦，自奉甚薄，妻尤儉約，惟以脫粟對飯而已。 Jingliang was incorrupt, upright, and frugal; he lived very simply, and his wife was especially thrifty—they ate nothing but plain grain.