Overview
The translated histories identify Chen Qingzhi as a general and official. This record brings together 53 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 Qingzhi | 陳慶之 | Chen Qingzhi |
| Personal name | Chen Qingzhi | 陳慶之 | |
| Posthumous | Martial | 武 | Wu |
| Courtesy | Ziyun | 子雲 | Ziyun |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleExplicit · liangshu:046:s0159
Roles
- General
- Official
Life and dates
Death
- Manner: died · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同五年十月 · Reign: 大同 · Regnal Year: 5 · Lunar Month: 10 · Western Year: AD 539Explicit · liangshu:032:s0123
Age
- Age: 56 · Reckoning: sui · At Event: deathExplicit · liangshu:032:s0123
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 大同五年十月 · Reign: 大同 · Regnal Year: 5 · Lunar Month: 10 · Western Year: AD 539Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:032:s0123
- Source Date: Text: 大通元年 · Reign: 大通 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 527Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:032:s0019
- Source Date: Text: 中大通二年 · Reign: 中大通 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 530Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:032:s0110
- Source Date: Text: 大同二年 · Reign: 大同 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 536Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:032:s0117
- Source Date: Text: 普通七年 · Reign: 普通 · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 526Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:032:s0015
- Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:032:s0040, liangshu:032:s0041
- Source Date: Text: 普通中 · Reign: 普通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 527Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:032:s0008
- Source Date: Text: 中大通元年 · Western Year: AD 529Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:046:s0159
Family
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- Parent of Chen Zhaosi (陳昭嗣)Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 1
- Parent of Chen Xin (陳昕)Kinship Term: fifth son / 第五子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 5
Career and standing
- Label: Bearer of Credentials / 使持節 · Action: appointed-by-Yuan-Hao · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0042
- Label: General Who Pacifies the North / 鎮北將軍 · Action: appointed-by-Yuan-Hao · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0042
- Label: Grand Commander of the Vanguard / 前軍大都督 · Action: appointed-by-Yuan-Hao · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0042
- Label: Grand General of Chariots and Cavalry / 車騎大將軍 · Action: appointed-by-Yuan-Hao · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0066
- Label: Inspector of Xu province / 徐州刺史 · Action: appointed-by-Yuan-Hao · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0048
- Label: Left Grand Master of Splendid Happiness / 左光祿大夫 · Action: appointed-by-Yuan-Hao · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0066
- Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: appointed-by-Yuan-Hao · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0066
- Label: Protector of the Army / 護軍 · Action: appointed-by-Yuan-Hao · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0042
- Label: Commander of Southern and Northern Si, Western Yu, and Yu / 都督南北司西豫豫四州諸軍事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中大通二年 · Reign: 中大通 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 530Explicit · liangshu:032:s0110
- Label: Inspector of Southern and Northern Si / 南北司二州刺史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中大通二年 · Reign: 中大通 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 530Explicit · liangshu:032:s0110
- Label: Overall Commander of Military Affairs / 總知軍事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通七年 · Reign: 普通 · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 526Explicit · liangshu:032:s0015
- Label: Commander of Military Affairs along the Huai / 都督緣淮諸軍事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0104
- Label: General of Stirring Martiality / 奮武將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0104
- Label: General of Swift Valor / 飆勇將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0041
- Label: General of the Right Guard / 右衛將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0103
- Label: Inspector of Northern Yan province / 北兗州刺史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0104
- Label: Commander of the Civil Virtue corps / 文德主帥 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通中 · Reign: 普通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 527Explicit · liangshu:032:s0009
- Label: General of Manifest Valor / 宣猛將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通中 · Reign: 普通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 527Explicit · liangshu:032:s0009
- Label: General of Martial Prestige / 武威將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通中 · Reign: 普通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 527Explicit · liangshu:032:s0008
- Label: Chief Secretary / 主書 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:032:s0006
- Label: Palace Attendant / 奉朝請 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:032:s0007
- Label: Attendant Cavalier at Large / 散騎常侍 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同五年十月 · Reign: 大同 · Regnal Year: 5 · Lunar Month: 10 · Western Year: AD 539Explicit · liangshu:032:s0124
- Label: General of the Left Guard / 左衛將軍 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同五年十月 · Reign: 大同 · Regnal Year: 5 · Lunar Month: 10 · Western Year: AD 539Explicit · liangshu:032:s0124
- Label: General of the Guard / 衛將軍 · Action: promoted-by-Yuan-Hao · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0048
- Label: General of Humane Prestige / 仁威將軍 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同二年 · Reign: 大同 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 536Explicit · liangshu:032:s0120
- Label: Direct Attendant of the Eastern Palace / 東宮直閤 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通七年 · Reign: 普通 · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 526Explicit · liangshu:032:s0018
- Action: fief-increased · Households: 10000 · Grantor Person Id: Yuan Hao (元顥) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0066
- Label: acting credentials / 假節 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通七年 · Reign: 普通 · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 526Explicit · liangshu:032:s0015
- Label: acting credentials / 假節 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0041
- Label: funeral military band / 鼓吹一部 · Action: posthumously-bestowedExplicit · liangshu:032:s0124
- Title: Duke of Wudu / 武都公 · Action: enfeoffed-by-Yuan-Hao · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0048
- Title: Marquis of Guanzhong / 關中侯 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通七年 · Reign: 普通 · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 526Explicit · liangshu:032:s0018
- Title: Marquis of Yongxing / 永興縣侯 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529 · Households: 1500Explicit · liangshu:032:s0103
- Status: requested-posting · Action: requested-to-take-up-Xu-province · Denied By Person Id: Yuan Hao (元顥) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0092, liangshu:032:s0093
Places and affiliations
- Label: Liang / 梁 · Relation: servedExplicit · liangshu:032:s0006
- Place: Guoshan in Yixing / 義興國山 · Relation: native-ofExplicit · liangshu:032:s0003
Works and attributed material
- Kind: administrative memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Gaozu (高祖) · Provenance: Mode: paraphrased-document · Speaker Person Id: Chen Qingzhi (陳慶之)Explicit · liangshu:032:s0116
- Kind: battle exhortation · Role: speaker · Provenance: Mode: direct-speech · Speaker Person Id: Chen Qingzhi (陳慶之)
- Kind: strategic counsel · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Yuan Hao (元顥) · Provenance: Mode: direct-speech · Speaker Person Id: Chen Qingzhi (陳慶之)
- Kind: threatened withdrawal prohibition · Role: speaker · Provenance: Mode: direct-speech · Speaker Person Id: Chen Qingzhi (陳慶之)
Events and relationships
- Kind: military · Action: advanced on Hulao, causing Erzhu Shilong to flee · Role: commander · Other Person Id: Erzhu Shilong (爾朱世隆) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0063
- Kind: military · Action: ambushed Yuan Tianmu's detachments until they surrendered · Role: commander · Other Person Id: Yuan Tianmu (元天穆) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0067
- Kind: military · Action: attacked Li Xian's towns, accepted his surrender, and occupied them · Role: commander · Other Person Id: Li Xian (李憲) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通七年 · Reign: 普通 · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 526Explicit · liangshu:032:s0017
- Kind: military · Action: besieged Xuanhu and defeated four Wei provincial commanders at the Qin River and Chucheng · Role: commander · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中大通二年 · Reign: 中大通 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 530 · Opponents: Lou Qi (婁起), Shiyun Bao (是云寶), Sun Teng (孫騰), Hou Jin (侯進), Yao Xiong (堯雄), Sima Gong (司馬恭)Explicit · liangshu:032:s0111, liangshu:032:s0112
- Kind: military · Action: broke Qiu Daqian's stockade in one charge · Role: commander · Other Person Id: Qiu Daqian (丘大千) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通中 · Reign: 普通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 527Explicit · liangshu:032:s0012
- Kind: military · Action: captured Wei strongpoints and accepted Wang Wei's surrender at Guoyang · Role: commander · Other Person Id: Wang Wei (王緯) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通元年 · Reign: 大通 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 527Explicit · liangshu:032:s0033, liangshu:032:s0034
- Kind: military · Action: captured Yuan Yuye alive and seized 7,800 tax wagons · Role: commander · Other Person Id: Yuan Huiye (元暉業) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0046
- Kind: military · Action: cut through the passes and withdrew by night with his troops intact · Role: commander · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通中 · Reign: 普通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 527Explicit · liangshu:032:s0014
- Kind: military · Action: defeated Hou Jing before reinforcements arrived and captured his abandoned baggage · Role: commander · Other Person Id: Hou Jing (侯景) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同二年 · Reign: 大同 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 536
- Kind: military · Action: escorted Prince Zong to garrison Xu province with two thousand troops · Role: commander · Other Person Id: Prince Zong of Yuzhang (豫章王綜) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通中 · Reign: 普通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 527Explicit · liangshu:032:s0009
- Kind: military · Action: escorted Yuan Hao north and took Yingcheng · Role: commander · Other Person Id: Yuan Hao (元顥) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0041, liangshu:032:s0042
- Kind: military · Action: followed Emperor Wu east and helped pacify Jianye · Role: combatant · Other Person Id: Gaozu (高祖)Explicit · liangshu:032:s0006
- Kind: military · Action: held Beizhonglang fortress through eleven battles in three days · Role: defender · Other Person Id: Erzhu Rong (尒朱榮) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0098
- Kind: military · Action: led troops to receive Yuan Faseng's submission · Role: commander · Other Person Id: Yuan Faseng (元法僧) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通中 · Reign: 普通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 527 · Co Participants: Hu Longya (胡龍牙), Cheng Jingjun (成景儁)Explicit · liangshu:032:s0008
- Kind: agricultural · Action: opened farmland and filled the granaries within two years · Quantity Qing: 6000 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中大通二年後二年內 · Reign: 中大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 530 · End: AD 532Explicit · liangshu:032:s0114
- Kind: famine-relief · Action: opened granaries and saved many people in Yu province · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同二年 · Reign: 大同 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 536Explicit · liangshu:032:s0121
- Kind: political · Action: refused Ma Fonian's proposal to kill Yuan Hao · Other Person Id: Ma Fonian (馬佛念) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0091
- Kind: military · Action: retreated east, lost his army to floods, disguised himself as a monk, and escaped through Ruyin · Role: commander · Other Person Id: Erzhu Rong (尒朱榮) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0101, liangshu:032:s0102
- Kind: military · Action: routed the Wei vanguard with two hundred cavalry and seized Guoyang · Role: commander · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通元年 · Reign: 大通 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 527Explicit · liangshu:032:s0025, liangshu:032:s0026
- Kind: administrative · Action: stood down Yiyang's garrison and halted supply convoys · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中大通二年 · Reign: 中大通 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 530Explicit · liangshu:032:s0113
- Kind: military · Action: stormed Yingyang and routed Yuan Tianmu's encircling army · Role: commander · Other Person Id: Yuan Tianmu (元天穆) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0060, liangshu:032:s0061
- Kind: military · Action: suppressed and beheaded Cai Bolong and Seng Qiang within ten days · Role: commander · Other Person Id: Seng Qiang (僧強)Explicit · liangshu:032:s0108, liangshu:032:s0109
- Kind: military · Action: took thirty-two cities in forty-seven battles over 140 days from Zhi county to Luoyang · Role: commander · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0072
- Kind: military · Action: took three stockades and received Qiu Daqian's surrender · Role: commander · Other Person Id: Qiu Daqian (丘大千) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0044
- Relation: served-under · Person Id: Cao Zhongzong (曹仲宗) · Campaign: Guoyang / 渦陽 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通元年 · Reign: 大通 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 527Explicit · liangshu:032:s0019
- Explicit · liangshu:032:s0004
- Relation: favored-by · Person Id: Gaozu (高祖)Explicit · liangshu:032:s0005
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: celebrated in a Luoyang children's rhyme as the white-robed commander before whom armies fled · Provenance: Mode: popular-rhymeExplicit · liangshu:032:s0071
- Assessment: eight hundred residents petitioned for a stele praising his virtue · Witness Person Id: Li Sheng (李升) · Provenance: Mode: paraphrased-petition · Source Person Id: Li Sheng (李升)Explicit · liangshu:032:s0122
- Assessment: possessed true generalship and was compared with Lian Po, Li Mu, Wei Qing, and Huo Qubing · Comparison Person Ids: Lian Po (廉頗), Li Mu (李牧), Wei Qing (衛), Huo Qubing (霍去病) · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · liangshu:032:s0173
- Assessment: praised by Emperor Wu for rising without a military lineage or great clan · Assessor Person Id: Gaozu (高祖) · Provenance: Mode: quoted-document · Source Person Id: Gaozu (高祖)
- Assessment: quick-witted, favored from youth by Emperor Wu, sober in conduct, and honored with high office · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · liangshu:032:s0174
- Assessment: received another personal note of praise · Assessor Person Id: Gaozu (高祖) · Provenance: Mode: imperial-note · Source Person Id: Gaozu (高祖)Explicit · liangshu:032:s0069
- Assessment: repeatedly praised and rewarded by Emperor Wu · Assessor Person Id: Gaozu (高祖) · Provenance: Mode: historian-narrative · Source Person Id: Gaozu (高祖)Explicit · liangshu:032:s0115
- Assessment: respectful and cautious, austere in dress and music, unskilled at archery and horsemanship, but exceptionally able to win soldiers' loyalty · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · liangshu:032:s0127
- Assessment: stayed awake through Emperor Wu's all-night weiqi games and answered every summons · Provenance: Mode: historian-narrativeExplicit · liangshu:032:s0005
- Item: personal wealth / 財 · Relation: distributed-to-gather-followersExplicit · liangshu:032:s0006
- Item: white robes / 白袍 · Relation: uniform-of-his-commandExplicit · liangshu:032:s0070
References in the histories
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