Ming · Official

Jian Yi 蹇義

Attested AD 1424 - AD 1435

Passages: 5
Chapters: 3
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Jian Yi as an official and statesman. This record brings together 5 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Jian Yi	蹇義	Jian Yi
Surname	Jian	蹇
Personal name	Jian Yi	蹇義	Jiǎn Yì
Personal name	Jian Yi	蹇義	Jian Yi
Title	Minister of Personnel Jian Yi	吏部尚書蹇義
Given	Yi	義

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · mingshi:058:s0177

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 宣德 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1426 · End: AD 1435
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:169:s0063
Source Date: Text: 戊戌 · Western Year: AD 1424
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:008:s0063
Source Date: Text: 洪熙元年 · Western Year: AD 1425
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Career and standing

Label: Minister / Shangshu / 尚書 · Action: held
Explicit · mingshi:058:s0177
Label: Minister of Personnel / 吏部尚書 · Action: held
Explicit · mingshi:008:s0063, mingshi:058:s0183

Places and affiliations

Polity: Ming / 明 · Relation: served
Explicit · mingshi:058:s0177

Events and relationships

Kind: audience · Role: addressee · Action: summoned-regarding-Xianling
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Assessments and attributes

Item: silver seal Correct errors and amend faults / 繩愆糾繆銀章 · Relation: bestowed
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References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 8Volume 8 Annals 8: Renzong · 2 passages

戊戌，賜吏部尚書蹇義及楊士奇、楊榮、金幼孜銀章各一，曰「繩愆糾繆」，諭以協心贊務，凡有闕失當言者，用印密封以聞。 On wuxu Personnel Minister Jian Yi plus Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, and Jin Youzi received silver seals inscribed "Correct errors and amend faults," with orders to work as one and seal confidential memorials whenever they found fault.

是月，諭蹇義、楊士奇、夏原吉、楊榮、金幼孜曰：「前世人主，或自尊大，惡聞直言，臣下相與阿附，以至於敗。 That month he told Jian Yi, Yang Shiqi, Xia Yuanji, Yang Rong, and Jin Youzi: "Some earlier rulers grew arrogant and shunned blunt counsel; their ministers flattered one another until the state collapsed.

History of Ming, Chapter 58Volume 58 Treatises 34: Rites 12 · 2 passages

先是，詔營獻陵，帝召尚書蹇義、夏原吉諭曰：「國家以四海之富葬親，豈惜勞費。 Earlier, an edict had ordered the construction of Xianling; the emperor summoned the ministers Jian Yi and Xia Yuanji and instructed them: "The state possesses the wealth of all under Heaven to bury a parent — how could it begrudge labor and expense.

吏部尚書蹇義等請祔廟後，素服御西角門視事。 Minister of Personnel Jian Yi and others requested that after enshrinement at the temple, the emperor conduct affairs in plain dress at the West Corner Gate.

History of Ming, Chapter 169Volume 169 Biographies 57: Gao Gu, Hu Ying, Wang Zhi · 1 passage

嘗曲宴濙及楊士奇、夏原吉、蹇義，曰：「海內無虞，卿等四人力也。」 He once entertained Hu Ying, Yang Shiqi, Xia Yuanji, and Jian Yi privately and said, "The empire is at peace — the four of you have done this."