Sui and Tang · Official and General

Deng Jingshan 鄧景山

First attested AD 756; died AD 762

Passages: 16
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Deng Jingshan was an official and General.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	Jing	敬	Jing

Life and dates

Death

AD 762 寶應元年
killed in mutiny 遇害
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 63

Attested activity

AD 760 to AD 761 劉展反
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 144, passage 69
AD 762 寶應元年
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 141, passage 63
AD 756 至德初
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 141, passage 40

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Orphaned daughter of Deng Jingshan
his orphaned daughter 其孤女
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 65

sons and brothers 子弟
Kinship Role sons and brothers · Quantity unspecified
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 55

Key source chapters

Career and standing

military governor of Qing and Qi 青齊節度使
AD 756 至德初 · Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 40
investigating censor 監察御史
Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 39
posthumous title Jing 謚曰敬
Granted
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 66
Duke of Nanyang 南陽郡公
Granted
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 53

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 69
At Caozhou 曹州
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 38

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 56

Events and relationships

Called Shengong against Liu Zhan
Military · Summoner · With Tian Shenggong (田神功)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 69
Defeated by Liu Zhan
Military · Commander
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 48
Relation Friend of · Person Liu Yan (劉晏)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 65

References in the histories

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History

16 passages

New Book of Tang, Chapter 141Volume 141 Biographies 66: Cui, Deng, Wei, Wei, Li Han, Lu, Gao · 15 passages

崔鄧魏衛李韓盧高 Cui, Deng, Wei, Wei, Li, Han, Lu, and Gao

鄧景山，曹州人。 Deng Jingshan was a native of Caozhou.

有鼉集城門，鄧珽語景山曰：「鼉介物也。 A crocodile gathered at the city gate. Deng Ting said to Jingshan, "The crocodile is a scaled creature.

初，展有異志，淮西節度使王仲昇表其狀，詔遷揚州長史兼江淮都統，密詔景山執送京師。 Earlier Liu Zhan had harbored a different intent; Huainan West military governor Wang Zhongsheng memorialized his conduct; the emperor ordered him moved to Yangzhou chief administrator and concurrent commander of Jiang-Huai, with a secret edict to Jingshan to arrest him and send him to the capital.

景山逆擊不勝，奔壽州，因引平盧節度副使田神功討展。 Jingshan met him in attack and was defeated; he fled to Shouzhou and then brought in Pinglu deputy military governor Tian Shenggong to attack Zhan.

展叛凡三月平，追景山入朝，拜尚書左丞，以崔圓代之。 Zhan's rebellion was pacified in about three months; Jingshan was recalled to court, appointed left vice director of the Department of State Affairs, and Cui Yuan replaced him.

帝聞，即以景山為太原尹，封南陽郡公。 When the emperor heard of this, he at once made Jingshan governor of Taiyuan and enfeoffed him as Duke of Nanyang.

而景山清約，子弟饌不過草具，用器止烏漆，待上賓惟豚、魚而已，取倉粟紅腐者食之，兼給麾下，麾下怨訕。 Yet Jingshan was frugal and abstemious: his sons and brothers' meals were no more than humble fare, his vessels were only black lacquer, and for honored guests he served only pork and fish. He took red rotten grain from the granary to eat and also gave it to his subordinates, who grumbled in ridicule.

左右白景山，景山曰：「此不食，留將安用邪？」 His attendants informed Jingshan; Jingshan said, "If we won't eat this, what will we keep it for?"

請納一馬贖，景山乃許減死。 they asked to offer one horse in ransom; only then did Jingshan permit commutation from death.

景山護失，叱遣之。 Jingshan, protective of his error, shouted and sent them away.

少將黃抱節因眾怒作亂，景山遇害，時寶應元年也。 The junior general Huang Baojie stirred up the crowd's anger and made a revolt; Jingshan met his death—it was the first year of Baoying.

肅宗以其統馭失方，不復究驗，遣使喻撫其軍，軍中請辛雲京為節度，詔可。 Emperor Suzong, because Jingshan had lost control, did not pursue the matter further; he sent envoys to pacify the army, and the army requested Xin Yunjing as military governor—the edict approved.

景山與劉晏善，其後家寒窶，晏屢經紀之，嫁其孤女。 Jingshan was friendly with Liu Yan; afterward his family was poor and needy, and Yan repeatedly managed affairs for him and married off his orphaned daughter.

謚曰敬。 His posthumous title was Jing.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 144Volume 144 Biographies 69: Lai, Tian, Hou, Cui, Yan · 1 passage

劉展反，鄧景山引神功助討，自淄青濟淮，眾不整，入揚州，遂大掠居人貲產，發屋剔窖，殺商胡波斯數千人。 When Liu Zhan rebelled, Deng Jingshan called on Shengong. Marching from Ziqing across the Huai in disorder, he entered Yangzhou and looted the city, breaking into houses, digging out hidden stores, and slaughtering several thousand foreign merchants, including Persians.