Chen Jing (陳京) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Chen Jing as an official and scholar. This record brings together 2 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Chen Jing	陳京	Chén Jīng
Personal name	Chen Jing	陳京	Chén Jīng
Personal name	Chen Jing	陳京	Chen Jing

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xintangshu:052:s0020, xintangshu:161:s0046

Roles

Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 太常博士韋都賓、陳京請借富商錢 · Western Year: AD 782
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:052:s0020
Source Date: Text: 德宗納之 · Western Interval: Start: AD 779 · End: AD 805
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:161:s0046

Career and standing

Label: Erudite of the Imperial Ancestral Temple / 太常博士 · Action: held
Strongly inferred · xintangshu:052:s0020

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: proposer · Action: requested borrowing from wealthy merchants
Explicit · xintangshu:052:s0020

References in the histories

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 52Volume 52 Treatises 48: Finance and Economics 2 · 1 passage

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初，太常博士韋都賓、陳京請借富商錢，德宗以問度支杜佑，以為軍費裁支數月，幸得商錢五百萬緡，可支半歲。 Erudites of the Imperial Ancestral Temple Wei Dubin and Chen Jing first proposed borrowing from rich merchants. Dezong consulted Du You, director of revenue, who replied that army funds would last only a few months but that five million strings from merchants could sustain the war for half a year.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 161Volume 161 Biographies 86: Zhang, Zhao, Li, Zheng, Xu, Wang, Feng, Yu · 1 passage

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詔復用杞為刺史，薦與陳京、趙需等論杞奸惡傾覆不當用，入對挺確，德宗納之。 An edict was issued to reinstate Qi as prefect; Jian, together with Chen Jing, Zhao Xu, and others, argued that Qi's wickedness and his overturning of the realm made him unfit for appointment; appearing before the throne he spoke firmly, and Dezong accepted their view.