Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Inspector and General

Chang Yizhi 昌義之

First attested AD 490; died AD 523

Passages
32
Chapters
4
Histories
2

Overview

Chang Yizhi was an Inspector and General.

IdentityHistorical · Male

Other names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Posthumous name Lie 烈 Lie

Life and dates

Death

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Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Key source chapters

  1. Book of Liang, Chapter 18 Volume 18: Zhang Huishao; Feng Daogen; Kang Xuan; Chang Yizhi 21 passages
  2. Book of Chen, Chapter 2 Volume 2: Emperor Wu 2 5 passages
  3. Book of Liang, Chapter 9 Volume 9: Wang Mao; Cao Jingzong; Liu Qingyuan 3 passages
  4. Book of Liang, Chapter 12 Volume 12: Liu Tan; Liu Chen; Xi Chanwen; Wei Rui; Wei Ai 3 passages

Career and standing

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Learning and skills

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Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment deeply capable in counsel, mild of heart, loyal from the dynasty's rise, merit plain on the border · Mode edict Speaker Gaozu (高祖)
    Directly stated · Book of Liang 18, passage 222
  • Assessment generous and mild by nature; as a general could comfort and control men and win their utmost loyalty; officials and people were at peace in his fief post · Mode historian-judgment
    Directly stated · Book of Liang 18, passage 218
  • Assessment when they first followed the founding, their merit was slight; later each had his labor and favor was fitting · Mode commentator-judgment Source Person Id Yao Cha (姚察)
    Directly stated · Book of Liang 18, passages 230, 233
  • AD 523 四年十月
    Item Eastern Garden funerary gear 東園秘器 · Relation Bestowed
    Directly stated · Book of Liang 18, passage 226
  • AD 523 四年十月
    Item funeral bounty of twenty thousand cash, two hundred bolts of cloth, two hundred jin of wax 賻錢二萬，布二百匹，蠟二百斤 · Relation Bestowed
    Directly stated · Book of Liang 18, passage 227
  • AD 523 四年十月
    Item one court robe 朝服一具 · Relation Bestowed
    Directly stated · Book of Liang 18, passage 226

Source notes

References in the histories

32 passages

Book of Chen, Chapter 2Volume 2: Emperor Wu 2 · 5 passages
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Book of Liang, Chapter 9Volume 9: Wang Mao; Cao Jingzong; Liu Qingyuan · 3 passages
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Book of Liang, Chapter 12Volume 12: Liu Tan; Liu Chen; Xi Chanwen; Wei Rui; Wei Ai · 3 passages
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Book of Liang, Chapter 18Volume 18: Zhang Huishao; Feng Daogen; Kang Xuan; Chang Yizhi · 21 passages
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明年，魏遣將李曇定大衆逼荊山，揚聲欲決堰，詔假義之節，帥太僕卿魚弘文、直閤將軍曹世宗、徐元和等救絢，軍未至，絢等已破魏軍。 Next year Wei sent Li Tanding with a large force against Jingshan, claiming they would burst the dam; Yizhi was given acting credentials and led Yu Hongwen, grand master of the imperial stud, direct-attendant Cao Shizong, Xu Yuanhe, and others to aid Xuan—the relief force had not arrived when Xuan had already routed Wei.