Ming · Eunuch and Rebel

Cao Jixiang 曹吉祥

Died AD 1461

Passages
4
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

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

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Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Cao Jixiang 曹吉祥 Cao Jixiang
Personal name Cao Jixiang 曹吉祥 Cao Jixiang

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Eunuch
  • Official
  • Rebel

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: executed by dismemberment in the marketplace · Place: the marketplace / 市 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順五年秋七月癸卯 · Western Year: AD 1461
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0136

Attested activity

Family

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  • Parent of Cao Qin (曹欽)
    Kinship Term: adopted heir / 嗣子 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: adoptive father · Object Role: adopted son · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順元年春正月丙戌 · Western Year: AD 1457
    Kinship Term: adopted heir / 嗣子 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: adopted son · Object Role: adoptive father · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順元年春正月丙戌 · Western Year: AD 1457
  • Kinship Role: clan and kin · Quantity: the whole clan, number unstated · Action: exterminated after his execution · Source Term: his clan was wiped out / 夷其族 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順五年秋七月癸卯 · Western Year: AD 1461
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0136

Career and standing

  • Label: Eunuch Superintendent of the Metropolitan Camp / 總督京營太監 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順五年秋七月庚子 · Western Year: AD 1461
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0135
  • Label: Eunuch / 太監 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順元年春正月壬午 · Western Year: AD 1457
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0002
  • Legal Action: dismemberment in the marketplace / 磔於市 · Action: suffered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順五年秋七月癸卯 · Western Year: AD 1461
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0136

Places and affiliations

Events and relationships

  • Kind: political · Event: Gate-Seizing restoration / 奪門迎復 · Role: leader · Action: led troops that brought the Emperor out of the Southern Palace · Other Person Id: Yingzong (英宗) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順元年春正月壬午 · Western Year: AD 1457
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0002, mingshi:012:s0008
  • Kind: military · Event: the Cao revolt / 曹欽之亂 · Role: leader · Action: rose in revolt with his adopted son and was crushed by Sun Tang · Other Person Ids: Cao Qin (曹欽), Sun Tang (孫鏜) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順五年秋七月庚子 · Western Year: AD 1461
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0135
  • Relation: faction-leader-of · Person Id: Tang Xu (湯序) · Action: his partisans, Tang Xu among them, were executed with him · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順五年秋七月癸卯 · Western Year: AD 1461
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0136

References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 12Volume 12 Annals 12: Yingzong Later Records · 4 passages
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天順元年春正月壬午，昧爽，武清侯石亨，都督張輗、張軏，左都御史楊善，副 都御史徐有貞，太監曹吉祥以兵迎帝於南宮，御奉天門，朝百官。 In the first month of spring in Tianshun one, at first light on renwu, Shi Heng, Marquis of Wuqing, Zhang Ni and Zhang Yue, regional commanders, Yang Shan, left censor-in-chief, Xu Youzhen, vice censor-in-chief, and the eunuch Cao Jixiang led troops to bring the Emperor out of the Southern Palace; he took the throne at Fengtian Gate and received the whole bureaucracy in audience.