Sui and Tang · Official

Deng Jingshan 鄧景山

Died AD 762

Passages: 15
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Deng Jingshan as an aristocrat and official. This record brings together 15 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	Deng Jingshan	鄧景山	Deng Jingshan
Posthumous	Jing	敬	Jing
Given	Jingshan	景山	Jingshan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xintangshu:141:s0038

Roles

Aristocrat
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: killed in mutiny / 遇害 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 寶應元年 · Western Year: AD 762
Explicit · xintangshu:141:s0063

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 寶應元年 · Western Year: AD 762
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:141:s0063
Source Date: Text: 至德初 · Western Year: AD 756
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:141:s0040

Family

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Parent of Orphaned daughter of Deng Jingshan
Kinship Term: his orphaned daughter / 其孤女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter

Kinship Role: sons and brothers · Quantity: unspecified · Label: sons and brothers / 子弟
Explicit · xintangshu:141:s0055

Career and standing

Label: military governor of Qing and Qi / 青齊節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至德初 · Western Year: AD 756
Explicit · xintangshu:141:s0040
Label: investigating censor / 監察御史 · Action: served
Explicit · xintangshu:141:s0039
Title: posthumous title Jing / 謚曰敬 · Action: granted
Explicit · xintangshu:141:s0066
Title: Duke of Nanyang / 南陽郡公 · Action: granted
Explicit · xintangshu:141:s0053

Places and affiliations

Place: Caozhou / 曹州
Explicit · xintangshu:141:s0038

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker
Explicit · xintangshu:141:s0056

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated by Liu Zhan
Explicit · xintangshu:141:s0048
Relation: friend-of · Person Id: Liu Yan (劉晏)
Explicit · xintangshu:141:s0065

References in the histories

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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.