Song, Liao, and Jin · Family Member

Father of Fan Yingling

Attested AD 1220 - AD 1238

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Father of Fan Yingling was a Family Member.

Life and dates

Death

Cause Unstated; established by Yinglings mourning for his father
Directly stated · History of Song 410, passage 240

Attested activity

AD 1220 to AD 1238 feng qin through ding wai jian in Fan Yingling career
Strongly inferred · History of Song 410, passages 222, 231, 240

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Yingling (應鈴)
father 父
father 外艱 · paternal line
parent 親 · paternal line
Sources vary in certainty · History of Song 410, passages 222, 231, 239-240
Spouse of Mother of Fan Yingling
wife 妻
Strongly inferred · History of Song 410, passages 220, 240

Events and relationships

Taken along when Yingling set out for Jizhou
Travel · Accompanying parent
Strongly inferred · History of Song 410, passage 222

References in the histories

History of Song, Chapter 410Volume 410 Biographies 169: Lou Ji, Shen Huan, Shu Lin, Cao Yanyue, Fan Yingling, Xu Jingsun · 4 passages

即奉親以行。 He at once set out, taking his remaining parent with him.

閑居六年，養親讀書，泊如也。 He lived in retirement for six years, supporting his parents and reading at leisure, serene and unperturbed.

遷尚左郎官，尋為浙東提點刑獄，力丐便養，改直秘閣、江西提舉常平，並詭挾三萬戶，風采凜然。 Promoted to Shangzuo lang official, he was soon appointed Zhedong judicial intendant but begged hard for a post that would let him care for his parents. He was reassigned as Direct Secretarial Associate and Jiangxi grain intendant, holding at once an unusual cluster of duties over thirty thousand households, and his bearing was formidable.

丁外艱，服除，遷軍器監兼尚左郎官，召見，奏曰：“國事大且急者，儲貳為先。 After mourning his father and completing the mourning period, he was transferred to director of the Armaments Directorate while retaining his post as Shangzuo lang official. Summoned to audience, he memorialized, “Of the great and urgent affairs of state, establishing the heir apparent comes first.