Five Dynasties · Official and General

Ding Hui 丁會

First attested AD 880; died AD 910

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Ding Hui was an official and General.

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TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Courtesy name Daoyin 道隱 Daoyin

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 59Volume 59 Book of Later Tang 35: Biographies 11: Ding Hui, Yan Bao, Fu Xi, Wu Zhen, Wang Zan, Yuan Xiangxian, Zhang Wen, Li Shaowen · 15 passages
〈(《北夢瑣言》:梁祖雄猜,疑忌功臣,忽謂敬翔曰:「吾夢丁會在前祗候,吾將乘馬欲出,圉人以馬就台,忽為丁會跨之以出,時夢中怒,叱喝數聲,因驚覺,甚惡之。」 (According to the 《Miscellaneous Sayings of the Northern Dreams》: The Liang Founder was fierce, suspicious, and wary of his great commanders. One day he suddenly told Jing Xiang, "I dreamed that Ding Hui was waiting before me as I prepared to mount and ride out. The groom led the horse to the terrace, and in the dream Ding Hui vaulted onto it and rode out with me. I shouted at him in anger several times, then woke—and the omen filled me with loathing.")
引見,會泣曰:「臣非不能守潞,但以汴王篡弱唐祚,猜嫌舊將,臣雖蒙保薦之恩,而不忍相從,今所謂吐盜父之食以見王也。」 When he was received in audience Ding Hui wept and said, "It is not that I could not hold Luzhou. The Prince of Bian has usurped and enfeebled the Tang house and now suspects every old commander. Though I owed him the grace of preservation, I could not bear to follow him further. What I do now is what they call vomiting out a robber father's food to show oneself before the true king."