Qin and Han · Carriage Driver

Bing Ji's coachman 丙吉馭吏

Attested BC 59 - BC 55

Passages
6
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Bing Ji's coachman as an attendant and servant. This record brings together 6 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Found inBook of Han

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Bing Ji's coachman 丙吉馭吏
Title carriage driver 馭吏
Descriptive kinship Ji's carriage driver 吉馭吏

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Attendant
  • Servant

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 丙吉為相時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 59 · End: BC 55
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:085:s0155

Career and standing

Places and affiliations

  • Place: border commandery / 邊郡 · Relation: native-of
    Explicit · hanshu:085:s0159

Events and relationships

  • Kind: administrative · Role: informer · Action: reported-border-raid
    Explicit · hanshu:085:s0160

Assessments and attributes

  • Kind: habit · Statement: loved ale; once vomited on chancellor carriage
    Explicit · hanshu:085:s0155

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 85Volume 74: Wei Xiang and Bing Ji · 6 passages
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馭吏因隨驛騎至公車刺取，知虜入雲中、代郡，遽歸府見吉白狀，因曰：「恐虜所入邊郡，二千石長吏有老病不任兵馬者，宜可豫視。」 The carriage officer therefore followed the courier to the Public Carriage Office and made inquiries. Learning that the raiders had entered Yunzhong and Dai commanderies, he hurried back to the bureau, saw Bing Ji, reported the situation, and then said, ‘I fear that in the border commanderies the enemy has entered, some of the two-thousand-bushel senior officials may be old or ill and unable to handle troops and horses. It would be proper to inspect this in advance.’