Hu Ying 胡濙

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · mingshi:012:s0186, mingshi:169:s0248
• Sex: male
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0036

Roles

• Envoy
• Named Individual
• Official
• Statesman

Family

• Child of Mother of Hu Ying
  Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
• Parent of Son of Hu Ying
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

• Kinship Role: younger brothers · Count: 3
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0112

Career and standing

• Label: grand minister / 大臣
  Explicit · mingshi:012:s0186
• Label: Junior Grand Tutor / 少傅 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年正月 · Western Year: AD 1452
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0102
• Label: Minister of Rites / 禮部尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宣德 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1426 · End: AD 1427
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0054
• Label: Supervising Secretary in Military Affairs / 兵科給事中 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建文二年 · Western Year: AD 1400
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0038
• Label: Grand Tutor of the Heir Apparent / 太子太傅 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 景帝即位 · Western Year: AD 1450
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0077
• Label: Chief Supervising Secretary in Revenues / 戶科都給事中 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永樂元年 · Western Year: AD 1403
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0039
• Label: Grand Preceptor of the Heir Apparent / 太子太師 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0103
• Label: Left Vice Minister of Rites / 禮部左侍郎 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0044
• Label: Vice Minister / 侍郎 · Action: held
  Explicit · mingshi:008:s0036
• Label: Grand Guardian / 太保 · Action: posthumously-granted
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0114
• Status: retirement · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 英宗復位 · Western Year: AD 1457
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0109, mingshi:169:s0110
• Status: imprisonment · Action: entered
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0071
• Status: reinstatement · Action: entered
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0072
• Status: meritorious-veteran-minister · Label: meritorious veteran of successive reigns / 累朝勳舊
  Explicit · mingshi:012:s0186

Places and affiliations

• Label: Ming / 明 · Relation: served
  Strongly inferred · mingshi:012:s0186
• Label: Ming / 明 · Relation: served
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0038
• Place: Wujin / 武進
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0036

Learning and skills

• Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建文二年 · Western Year: AD 1400
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0038

Works and attributed material

• Work: Hall of Longevity and Joy / 壽愷 · Relation: named
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0112
• Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Zhu Di (朱棣)
  Explicit · mingshi:008:s0036
• Kind: memorial · Role: author
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0052, mingshi:169:s0067, mingshi:169:s0256
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0075, mingshi:169:s0088, mingshi:169:s0096, mingshi:169:s0097, mingshi:169:s0107

Events and relationships

• Kind: ritual · Role: advocate · Action: earnest over welcome rites for the emperor · Label: earnest over welcome rites / 惓惓於迎駕之儀 · Other Person Ids: Gao Gu (高谷) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 當英、景之間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1449 · End: AD 1457
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0250, mingshi:169:s0249
• Kind: political · Role: advocate · Action: opposed southward capital move with Yu Qian
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0074, mingshi:169:s0075, mingshi:169:s0076
• Kind: political · Role: regent-assistant · Action: received-testament-and-assisted-government · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · mingshi:012:s0186
• Kind: legal · Role: advocate · Action: refused to endorse killing Lin Cong · Other Person Id: Lin Cong (林聰)
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0104, mingshi:169:s0105, mingshi:169:s0107, mingshi:169:s0108
• Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: searched for Jianwen emperor and Zhang Guaiya · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永樂五年 · Western Year: AD 1407
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0041, mingshi:169:s0042
• Kind: political · Role: investigator · Action: secretly reported seven proofs of heir loyalty · Other Person Id: Zhu Gaochi (朱高熾)
  Explicit · mingshi:008:s0036
• Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Gao Gu (高谷)
  Strongly inferred · mingshi:169:s0248, mingshi:169:s0250
• Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Wang Zhi (王直)
  Strongly inferred · mingshi:169:s0248, mingshi:169:s0250

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: eager to please / inclined to flattery · Provenance: Mode: hearsay
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0116
• Assessment: frugal, generous, even-tempered · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0115
• Assessment: generosity and mildness; stature of a great minister · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0248
• Assessment: held to correct positions and kept one principle to the end; true elder of the state · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0250
• Assessment: helped keep public order from slackening · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · mingshi:012:s0186
• Kind: physical-description · Statement: born with white hair that turned black after one month
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0037
• Item: residence outside Right Chang'an Gate / 長安右門外第 · Relation: bestowed
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0057
• Item: silver seals / 銀章 · Relation: bestowed · Quantity: 4
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0057