Sui and Tang · Official and General

Chen Jingsi 陈景思

Chén Jǐngsī

Attested AD 881 - AD 882

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Chen Jingsi was an official and General.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 881 中和元年
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 25
AD 882 二年十一月
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 29

Career and standing

commissioner of the northern-Dai army 代北起军使
AD 881 中和元年 · Held
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 25

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 25

Events and relationships

Marched again on Changan with Keyong
AD 882 二年十一月 · Military · Commander · With Li Keyong (李克用)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 29
Mobilized surrendered Shatuo then recalled Keyong
AD 881 中和元年 · Military · Commander · With Li Keyong (李克用)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passages 25-26

References in the histories

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 4Volume 4 Later Tang Annals 1: Zhuangzong 1 · 3 passages

黄巢已陷京师，中和元年，代北起军使陈景思发沙陀先所降者，与吐浑、安庆等万人赴京师，行至绛州，沙陀军乱，大掠而还。 Huang Chao already held Chang’an. In Zhonghe 1 (881) Chen Jingsi, commissioner of the northern-Dai army, called up the surrendered Shatuo along with Tuyuhun and Anqing forces—ten thousand men—to relieve the capital. At Jiangzhou the Shatuo mutinied, looted the countryside, and marched home.

景思念沙陀非克用不可将，乃以诏书召克用于达靼，承制以为代州刺史、雁门以北行营节度使。 Jingsi decided the Shatuo would fight for no one but Keyong. He recalled him from the Tatars with an imperial order and, acting on emergency authority, named him prefect of Dai and commander of the armies north of Yanmen.

二年十一月，景思、克用复以步骑万七千赴京师。 In the eleventh month of the second year (882) Jingsi and Keyong again took seventeen thousand foot and horse toward Chang’an.