Jiang Bi (江泌) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Jiang Bi as an official. This record brings together 9 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Jiang Bi	江泌	Jiāng Bì
Alternate	Filial Jiang Bi	孝江泌	Xiào Jiāng Bì
Courtesy	Shiqing	士清	Shìqīng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Official

Life and dates

Death

Status: died
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 建武中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 494 · End: AD 498
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Source Date: Text: 永明中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 483 · End: AD 493
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Family

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Kin of Jiang Bi of Yanzhou (兖州治中泌)
Kinship Term: clansman / 族人
Child of Jiang Liangzhi (江亮之)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Child of Mother of Jiang Bi (江泌母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological

Kinship Role: brothers · Quantity: unknown count
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Career and standing

Label: Aide on the March of the Southern General / 南中郎行參軍 · Action: held
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Label: Assistant Instructor at the Imperial University / 國子助教 · Action: held
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Label: Reader to the Prince of Nankang / 南康王子琳侍讀 · Action: held
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Places and affiliations

Place: Kaocheng, Jiyang · Relation: native-of
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Events and relationships

Kind: biographical · Role: participant · Action: gave his cart to an old man and continued on foot
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Kind: biographical · Role: participant · Action: mourned Prince Zilin until he wept blood
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Kind: biographical · Role: participant · Action: personally cared for a sick former conscript clerk and bought his coffin
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Kind: biographical · Role: participant · Action: personally oversaw Prince Zilin’s burial
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Kind: biographical · Role: participant · Action: worked making clogs by day and read by moonlight at night
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References in the histories

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Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 55Volume 55 Biographies 36: Filial Piety · 9 passages

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崔懷慎公孫僧遠吳欣之韓係伯孫淡華寶韓靈敏封延伯吳達之王文殊朱謙之蕭叡明樂頤江泌杜栖陸絳 Cui Huaishen, Gongsun Sengyuan, Wu Xinzhi, Han Xibo, Sun Dan, Hua Bao, Han Lingmin, Feng Yanbo, Wu Dazhi, Wang Wenshu, Zhu Qianzhi, Xiao Ruiming, Le Yi, Jiang Bi, Du Qi, and Lu Jiang

江泌字士清，濟陽考城人也。 Jiang Bi, courtesy name Shiqing, was from Kaocheng in Jiyang.

泌少貧，晝日斫屟，夜讀書，隨月光握卷升屋。 Bi was poor as a youth. By day he carved clogs; by night he read, and when moonlight failed he would take his scroll and climb onto the roof to read.

歷仕南中郎行參軍，所給募吏去役，得時病，莫有舍之者，吏扶杖投泌，泌親自隱卹，吏死，泌為買棺。 He served as aide on the march of the Southern General. A conscript clerk under him fell ill after leaving service, and no one would take him in. The clerk came leaning on his staff; Bi cared for him himself, and when the clerk died Bi bought his coffin.

建武中，明帝害諸王後，泌憂念子琳，詣誌公道人問其禍福。 During Jianwu, after Emperor Ming killed the princes, Bi worried for Zilin and asked the Daoist master Zhigong what fate held for him.

及子琳被害，泌往哭之，淚盡，繼之以血。 When Zilin was killed, Bi went to mourn him until his tears gave out and blood followed.

泌尋卒。 Bi soon died.

泌族人兖州治中泌，黃門郎悆子也，與泌同名。 A kinsman also named Bi, administrative advisor of Yanzhou and son of Yellow Gate Attendant Yu, shared the same given name.

世謂泌為「孝江泌」以別之。 People called him "Filial Jiang Bi" to distinguish the two.