He Ning (和凝) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify He Ning as an official, poet, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 15 passages from 8 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	He Ning	和凝	Hé Níng
Courtesy name	Chengzhi	成績	Chéngjì
Title	Duke of Lu	魯公
Surname	He	和
Personal name	He Ning	和凝	Hé Níng
Alternate	He Ning	和凝	He Ning
Personal name	He Ning	和凝
Personal name	He Ning	和凝	He Ning
Title	Lord He	和公
Given name	Ning	凝

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0076
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:140:s0032
Value: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0138, xinwudaishi:073:s0057

Roles

Official
Poet
Scholar
Statesman
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Cause: back carbuncle / 背疽 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 顯德二年秋 · Season: autumn · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0114
Description: died / 卒 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:115:s0112

Age

Age: 17 · Reckoning: sui · Event: passed Mingjing
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0083
Age: 19 · Reckoning: sui · Event: passed Jinshi
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0084
Age: 58 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0114

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天福六年秋 · Season: autumn · Western Year: AD 941
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:127:s0104
Source Date: Text: 顯德二年秋 · Season: autumn · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0114
Western Year: AD 947 · Source Date: Text: Chronology stated or entailed by s0057
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:073:s0057
Source Date: Text: 丙寅，和凝罷。 · Western Year: AD 945
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:009:s0146
Source Date: Text: 仍命翰林學士承旨和凝撰序 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:140:s0032
Source Date: Text: 唐天成中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 930
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:127:s0094
Source Date: Text: 天福二年頃；端明殿學士和凝 · Western Year: AD 937
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:010:s0010
Source Date: Text: 天福五年 · Western Year: AD 940
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:127:s0103
Source Date: Text: 紀年語境（天福5年） · Western Year: AD 940
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:008:s0138
Source Date: Text: 胡柳陂之戰約同光元年 · Western Year: AD 923
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:127:s0087
Source Date: Text: 開運三年十一月庚寅 · Western Year: AD 946
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:085:s0014
Source Date: Text: 開運初 · Western Year: AD 944
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:127:s0111
Source Date: Text: 顯德二年 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:115:s0112

Family

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Descendant of He Ru (和濡)
Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
Descendant of He Chang (和敞)
Kinship Term: great-grandfather / 曾祖 · Generation Distance: 3 · Line: paternal
Kinship Term: great-grandfather / 曾祖 · Generation Distance: 3
Descendant of He Fengyao (和逢堯)
Kinship Term: ninth-generation ancestor / 九代祖 · Generation Distance: 9 · Line: paternal
Kinship Term: ninth-generation ancestor / 九代祖 · Generation Distance: 9
Parent of He Jun (和峻)
Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Subject Birth Order: 1
Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Subject Birth Order: 1
Child of He Ju (和矩)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Parent of He Xian (和峴)
Kinship Term: second son / 次子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Subject Birth Order: 2
Kinship Term: second son / 次子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Subject Birth Order: 2
Spouse of Wife of He Ning
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband

Kinship Role: sons of He Gui who were told to serve Ning · Count: 2 · Note: 諸子 undifferentiated · Count Uncertain: true
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0090

Origins and identity

Statement: ninth-generation descendant of He Fengyao
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0077

Career and standing

Label: Vice Minister of the Secretariat and Grand Councilor / 中書侍郎平章事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天福五年 · Western Year: AD 940
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0103
Label: co-grand councilor / 同中書門下平章事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0138
Label: Grand Guardian of the Heir / 太子太保 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0112
Label: Grand Tutor of the Heir / 太子太傅 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0113
Label: Hanlin Academician overseeing examinations / 翰林學士兼權知貢舉 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0094
Label: Left Vice Director / 左僕射 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0111
Label: Palace Censor / 殿中侍御史 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0094
Label: Right Vice Director / 右僕射 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0110
Label: vice director of the Secretariat / 中書侍郎 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0138
Label: Hanlin Academician Recipient of Edicts / 翰林學士承旨 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:140:s0032
Label: Hanlin director / 翰林學士承旨 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0138
Label: vice minister of revenue / 戶部侍郎 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0138
Description: Grand Tutor of the Heir Apparent / 太子太傅 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:115:s0112
Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0115
Description: Duke of Lu / 魯國公 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:115:s0112
Status: dismissed · Action: left-office
Explicit · xinwudaishi:009:s0146

Places and affiliations

Label: Later Jin / 晉 · Relation: served
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:140:s0032
Polities: Later Jin
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0057
Place: Xuchang in Wenyang / 汶陽須昌
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0076

Learning and skills

Credential: Jinshi / 進士 · Action: earned
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0084
Credential: Mingjing / 明經 · Action: earned
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0083
Skill: archery / 射 · Level: skilled
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0086

Works and attributed material

Works: Evolution of the Silken Canon / 演綸, Recreations / 遊藝, Filial Piety / 孝悌, Doubtful Cases / 疑獄, Perfumed Toilet / 香奩, Casket of Gold / 籯金
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0123
Work: Collection of the Perfumed Toilet / 香奩集 · Relation: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0122
Work: preface to the Tiaoyuan Calendar / 調元曆序 · Relation: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:140:s0032
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Gaozu of Jin (晉高祖) · Quoted: true
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0104, jiuwudaishi:127:s0106, jiuwudaishi:127:s0107
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: He Gui (賀瑰) · Quoted: true
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0088

Events and relationships

Kind: literary · Role: author · Action: attributed-work-to-Han-Wo · Other Person Id: Han Wo (韓偓)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0122
Kind: scholarly · Role: preface-author · Action: composed-preface · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 仍命翰林學士承旨和凝撰序 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:140:s0032
Kind: administrative · Role: examiner · Action: opened-gates-removed-thorns
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0096
Kind: military · Role: planner · Action: prepared-blank-edicts-against-An-Congjin · Other Person Id: An Congjin (安從進)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0107, jiuwudaishi:127:s0109
Kind: military · Role: follower · Action: saved-He-Gui-by-archery · Other Person Id: He Gui (賀瑰) · Place: Huliu Slope / 胡柳陂
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0087, jiuwudaishi:127:s0089
Event: summoned to Deguang’s burial · Kind: historical-event · Action: summoned to Deguang’s burial
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0057
Relation: protege-of · Person Id: He Gui (賀瑰)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0085
Relation: examiner-of · Person Id: Fan Zhi (範質)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0098
Relation: ordered-by · Person Id: Jin Gaozu (晉高祖)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:140:s0032

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: gentleman's scholar; literary grace · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0171

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 85Volume 85 Book of Later Jin 11: Emperor Shao 4 · 1 passage

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庚寅，樞密使、中書侍郎兼戶部尚書、平章事馮玉加尚書右僕射，以皇子鎮寧軍節度使延煦為陜州節度使，以陜州留後焦繼勛為鳳翔留後，以前定州留後安審琦為邠州留後，以右僕射和凝為左僕射。 On gengyin Feng Yu, Commissioner of the Bureau of Military Affairs, Vice Director of the Secretariat, concurrent Minister of Revenue, and Grand Counsellor, was promoted to Right Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs; Prince Yanxu, military governor of Zhenning, became military governor of Shanzhou; Jiao Jixun, acting prefect of Shanzhou, acting prefect of Fengxiang; An Shenqi, former acting prefect of Dingzhou, acting prefect of Binzhou; and He Ning moved from Right to Left Vice Director.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 115Volume 115 Book of Later Zhou 17: Shizong Annals 2 · 1 passage

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戊辰，太子太傅、魯國公和凝卒。 On wuchen Grand Tutor of the Heir Apparent and Duke of Lu He Ning died.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 127Volume 127 Book of Later Zhou 29: Biographies 7: Lu Wenji, Ma Yisun, He Ning, Su Yugui, Jing Fan · 8 passages

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和凝，字成績，汶陽須昌人也。 He Ning, courtesy name Chengzhi, was from Xuchang in Wenyang.

既而謂諸子曰：「昨非和公，無以至此。 He told his sons, "Without Lord He yesterday we would not be here.

和公文武全才而有志氣，後必享重位，爾宜謹事之。」 Lord He has civil and military talent and great resolve; he will surely reach high rank—serve him carefully."

〈（《澠水燕談》：範質初舉進士，時和凝知貢舉，凝嘗以宰輔自期，登第之日，名第十三人，及覽質文，尤加賞嘆，即以第十三名處之，場屋間謂之「傳衣缽」，若禪宗之相付授也。〈From Talks and Tales of the Mian Waters〉: When Fan Zhi first sat for the Jinshi, He Ning oversaw the examinations. Ning had long expected the chief ministership; on the day he passed, his own name was thirteenth. Reading Zhi's essay he admired it still more and placed him thirteenth. In the hall they called this "passing the robe and bowl," as in Chan succession.

〈（《宋朝類苑》：和魯公凝有艷詞一編名《香奩集》，凝後貴，乃嫁其名為韓偓，今世傳韓偓《香奩集》，乃凝所為也。〈Classified Anecdotes of the Song Dynasty〉: He Duke of Lu Ning wrote passionate lyrics called Collection of the Perfumed Toilet. After he rose high he attributed them to Han Wo; the Han Wo collection transmitted today is Ning's.

〈（《綿繡萬花谷》：範蜀公《蒙求》云：和峴，晉相和凝之子。〈Brocade and Myriad Flowers〉: Fan the Duke of Shu's Seeking the Obscure says He Xian was son of Jin chancellor He Ning.

勉思倜儻以致君，勿效因循而保位，佇聞成績，用副虛懷。 Strive boldly to serve the ruler; do not cling to routine and office—await achievement to match my hopes.

如成績之文采，元錫之履行，景範之純厚，皆得謂之君子儒矣。 Chengzhi's literary grace, Yuansi's conduct, Fan's pure weight—all were gentleman's scholars.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 140Volume 140: Treatises 2 Calendars · 1 passage

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俾有司奉而行之，因賜號《調元曆》，仍命翰林學士承旨和凝撰序。 The responsible offices were ordered to adopt and implement it; it was given the name Tiaoyuan Calendar, and Academician Expositor He Ning was commissioned to write its preface.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 8Volume 8 Later Jin Annals 1: Gaozu · 1 passage

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九月丁卯，翰林學士承旨、戶部侍郎和凝為中書侍郎、同中書門下平章事。 On dingmao of the ninth month He Ning, Hanlin director and vice minister of revenue, became vice director of the Secretariat and co-grand councilor.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 9Volume 9 Later Jin Annals 2: the Emperor That Fled · 1 passage

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丙寅，和凝罷。 On bingyin He Ning was dismissed.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 10Volume 10 Later Jin Annals 1: Gaozu, Emperor Yin · 1 passage

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高祖怒，欲罷其兵職，宰相趙瑩以為不可，高祖乃遣端明殿學士和凝就第宣諭，知遠乃受命。 Jin Gaozu, furious, meant to remove him from command, but Chancellor Zhao Ying dissuaded him. He Ning of the Duanming Hall was sent to Zhiyuan’s home to read the imperial reassurance, and only then did Zhiyuan take up his duties again.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 73Volume 73: Appendix on the Four Barbarians 2: Khitan 2 · 1 passage

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是歲八月，葬德光於木葉山，遣人至鎮州召馮道、和凝等會葬。 That eighth month Deguang was buried at Mount Muye, and messengers were sent to Zhen Prefecture to summon Feng Dao, He Ning, and others.