Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Warlord and Rebel

Chen Baoying 陳寶應

First attested AD 562; died AD 564

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Chen Baoying was a warlord and Rebel.

Life and dates

Death

AD 564 to AD 564 就執送都
Beheaded in Jiankang market · At Jiankang market 建康市
Directly stated · Book of Chen 35, passage 208

Attested activity

AD 562 to AD 564 寶應據建安
Dated from the passage context · Book of Chen 35, passage 206
AD 564 to AD 564 斬于建康市
Directly stated · Book of Chen 35, passage 208

Family

Kinship Role sons and younger brothers · Count 20
Directly stated · Book of Chen 35, passage 208

Events and relationships

Held Jian'an lake palisades; army broke; captured and executed
Military · Defender then fugitive
Directly stated · Book of Chen 35, passages 206, 208

Assessments and attributes

Assessment betrayed kindness; five clans slaughtered fittingly · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Chen 35, passages 212, 214

References in the histories

Book of Chen, Chapter 35Volume 35: Xiong Tanlang; Zhou Di; Liu Yi; Chen Baoying · 5 passages

斧鉞所臨，罪唯元惡及留異父子。 Where the axe reaches, guilt rests only on the chief villain and Liu Yi and his son.

昭達既剋周迪，踰東興嶺，頓于建安，余孝頃又自臨海道襲于晉安，寶應據建安之湖際，逆拒王師，水陸為柵。 Zhaoda, having beaten Di, crossed Dongxing Ridge and camped at Jian'an. Yu Xiaoqing also struck Jin'an from the Linhai road. Baoying held the lake shore at Jian'an and met the royal army behind water and land palisades.

俄而水盛，乘流放之，突其水柵，仍水步薄之，寶應眾潰，身奔山草閒，窘而就執，并其子弟二十人送都，斬于建康市。 Soon the water rose. They rode the flood, smashed the water palisades, and closed in by river and land. Baoying's army broke. He fled into the hills, was caught, and with twenty sons and younger brothers was sent to the capital and beheaded in the Jiankang market.

高祖應期撥亂，戡定安輯，熊曇朗、周迪、留異、陳寶應雖身逢興運，猶志在亂常。 The Founder met the age, quelled disorder, and brought peace. Xiong Tanlang, Zhou Di, Liu Yi, and Chen Baoying met the rising fortune yet still chose rebellion.

寶應及異，世祖或敦以婚姻，或處其類族，豈有不能威制，蓋以德懷也。 Baoying and Yi—Emperor Wen sometimes bound them by marriage or treated them as kin. Could he not have overawed them? He meant to win them by virtue.