Sui and Tang · Tribal Leader and Official

Chen Xi'ang 陳希昂

Chén Xī'áng

Attested AD 756 - AD 762

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Chen Xi'ang was a Tribal Leader and Official.

Life and dates

Death

Cause Ambush · At Jiangling 江陵 · Authority Lü Yin (呂諲)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 188

Attested activity

AD 756 to AD 762 初…後入朝，遷常州刺史
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 140, passage 188

Origins and identity

Ethnicity Man 蠻
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 188

Career and standing

military administrator 司馬
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 188
prefect of Changzhou 常州刺史
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 188

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 188
At Changzhou 常州 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 188
At Hengzhou 衡州 · Relation Native or based in
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 188

Events and relationships

Monopolized Jingzhou government
Political · De facto ruler
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 188
Seized rival at administrator residence
Military · Commander · With Mou Suijin (牟遂金)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 188
Relation Quarreled with · Person Mou Suijin (牟遂金)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 188

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 140Volume 140 Biographies 65: Cui Miao, Two Pei's, Lu · 1 passage

初，荊州長史張惟一以衡州蠻酋陳希昂為司馬，督家兵千人自防，惟一親將牟遂金與相忤，希昂率兵至惟一所捕之，惟一懼，斬其首以謝，悉以遂金兵屬之，乃退，自是政一出希昂，後入朝，遷常州刺史，過江陵入謁，諲伏甲擊殺之，誅黨偶數十人，積屍府門，內外震服。 At first chief administrator Zhang Weiyi of Jingzhou made the Man chieftain of Hengzhou Chen Xi'ang his military administrator with a thousand household troops for self-defense; Weiyi's intimate general Mou Suijin quarreled with him; Xi'ang led troops to seize Suijin at Weiyi's residence; frightened, Weiyi beheaded Suijin to apologize and turned all his troops over to Xi'ang, who then withdrew; thereafter government issued entirely from Xi'ang; later Xi'ang entered court and was made prefect of Changzhou; passing Jiangling he came to pay respects; Yin set ambush soldiers and killed him, executed several dozen of his partisans, and piled corpses at the prefectural gate—inside and outside were awed into submission.