Cao Ying (曹英) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Cao Ying as a general and military officer. This record brings together 4 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Cao Ying	曹英	Cao Ying
Surname	Cao	曹	Cao
Personal name	Cao Ying	曹英	Cao Ying
Personal name	Cao Ying	曹英	Cáo Yīng
Given name	Ying	英	Ying

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0040, xinwudaishi:011:s0089, xinwudaishi:053:s0082

Roles

General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 廣順二年春正月 · Western Year: AD 952
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:011:s0089
Source Date: Text: 曹英…討之 · Western Year: AD 952
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:053:s0082
Source Date: Text: 討慕容彥超 · Western Interval: Start: AD 952 · End: AD 953
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:130:s0040

Career and standing

Label: Yanzhou campaign overall commander / 兗州行營都部署 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:011:s0089
Label: Palace Guard foot commander / 侍衛步軍都指揮使 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:011:s0089

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 130Volume 130 Book of Later Zhou 32: Biographies 10: Wang Jun, Murong Yanchao, Yan Honglu, Cui Zhoudu · 2 passages

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時慕容彥超叛於兗州，已遣侍衛步軍都指揮使曹英、客省使向訓率兵攻之。 Murong Yanchao had rebelled at Yan Prefecture; the court had already sent Palace Guard infantry commander Cao Ying and guest-bureau commissioner Xiang Xun to attack him.

峻意欲自將兵討賊，累言於太祖曰：「慕容劇賊，曹英不易與之敵耳。」 Jun wanted to take the field himself. Again and again he told the emperor, "Murong is a ferocious rebel—Cao Ying will not easily stand against him."

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 11Volume 11 Later Zhou Annals 2: Taizu · 1 passage

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二年春正月甲子，侍衛步軍都指揮使曹英為兗州行營都部署。 On jiazi in the first month of year two, Cao Ying, foot commander of the Palace Guard, was named overall commander of the Yanzhou campaign.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 53Volume 53 Miscellaneous Biographies 33: Wang Jinchong, Zhao Suwan, Murong Yanchao · 1 passage

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太祖乃遣侍衛步軍指揮使曹英、客省使向訓討之，彥超閉城自守。 Taizu then sent Palace Guard infantry commander Cao Ying and guest-reception commissioner Xiang Xun against him. Yanchao shut the gates and held out.