Chen Yi (陳乂) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Chen Yi as an official and writer. This record brings together 7 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Chen Yi	陳乂	Chen Yi
Personal name	Chen Yi	陳乂	Chen Yi
Given name	Yi	乂	Yi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0183

Roles

Official
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0191

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 晉高祖即位 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:068:s0200
Source Date: Text: 莊宗平梁 · Western Year: AD 923
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:068:s0187
Source Date: Text: 長興中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 930 · End: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:068:s0196

Career and standing

Label: pacification commissioner-assessor / 招討判官 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0188
Label: Secretariat Drafting Secretary / 中書舍人 · Action: appointed
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Label: Minister of Rites / 禮部尚書 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 晉高祖即位 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0200

Places and affiliations

Place: Jimen / 薊門 · Relation: native
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0183

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0198

Events and relationships

Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: investiture-mission · Other Person Id: Princess Shi of Jin (晉國公主石氏) · Place: Taiyuan / 太原 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 930 · End: AD 933
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Relation: protege-of · Person Id: Ren Yuan (任圜)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0189
Relation: client-of · Person Id: Guo Chongtao (郭崇韜)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0187
Relation: client-of · Person Id: Zhang Hanjie (張漢傑)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0186

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: secretive, haughty, scrupulous about money · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0190, jiuwudaishi:068:s0195

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 7 passages

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陳乂，薊門人也。 Chen Yi was a native of Jimen.

乂性陰僻，寡與人合，不為當路所與。 Yi was secretive and withdrawn, seldom got along with others, and was not favored by those in power.

乂微有才術，嘗自恃其能。 Yi had modest talent and once relied heavily on his own ability.

然乂性孤執，尤廉於財。 Yet Yi was solitary and stubborn and especially scrupulous about money.

人或有獻可於乂，宜陳一謳頌以稱晉高祖之美，可邀其厚賄耳。 Some advised Yi to present a eulogy praising the Gaozu of Jin and thereby win a generous reward.

乂曰：「人生貧富，咸有定分，未有持天子命違禮以求利，既損國綱，且虧士行，乂今生所不為也。」 Yi said, "Whether life is poor or rich has its fixed allotment. No one who bears Heaven's Son's command should violate ritual to seek profit—this harms the state's norms and shames a scholar's conduct. That is something I will never do in this life."

晉高祖即位，贈禮部尚書。 When the Gaozu of Jin took the throne, Yi was posthumously awarded minister of rites.