Hong Jinglun (洪經綸)

Overview

The translated histories identify Hong Jinglun as an official and rebel. This record brings together 5 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Hong Jinglun	洪經綸	Hong Jinglun
Personal name	Hong Jinglun	洪經綸	Hóng Jīnglún
Given	Jinglun	經綸

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiutangshu:131:s0161

Roles

Official
Rebel

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 建中初 · Western Year: AD 780
Explicit · jiutangshu:131:s0161
Source Date: Text: 建中四年 · Western Year: AD 783
Explicit event contextual date · jiutangshu:131:s0167, jiutangshu:131:s0006
Source Date: Text: 德宗初 · Western Year: AD 780
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:141:s0154

Career and standing

Label: Vice Minister of Ceremonies / 太常少卿 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiutangshu:131:s0167
Label: promotion-and-demotion commissioner / 黜陟使 · Action: held
Explicit · jiutangshu:131:s0161

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: not worth speaking of · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiutangshu:131:s0224

References in the histories

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 131Volume 127 Biographies 77: Yao Lingyan, Zhang Guangcheng, Yuan Xiu, Qiao Lin, Zhang She, Jiang Zhen, Hong Jinglun, Peng Yan · 4 passages

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洪經綸，建中初為黜陟使。 Hong Jinglun, early in Jianzhong, served as promotion-and-demotion commissioner.

至東都，訪聞魏州田悅食糧兵凡七萬人，經綸素昧時機，先以符停其兵四萬人，令歸農畝。 When he reached the eastern capital he learned on inquiry that Tian Yue of Weizhou had grain-paid troops totaling seventy thousand men; Jinglun, who had never understood the times, first by writ halted forty thousand of his troops and ordered them back to the fields.

悅乃盡出家財衣服厚給之，各令還其部伍，自此人堅叛心，由是罷職。 Yue then gave out all his household wealth and clothing in generous gifts, had each return to his unit, and from this time men's hearts were set on rebellion; Jinglun was therefore removed from office.

經綸之徒，不足言爾。 Men like Jinglun are not worth speaking of.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 141Volume 141 Biographies 66: Cui, Deng, Wei, Wei, Li Han, Lu, Gao · 1 passage

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德宗初，采訪使洪經綸言之，詔表闕於門。 At the beginning of Dezong's reign, investigation commissioner Hong Jinglun spoke of this, and an edict set up a commemorative arch at the gate.