Jiang Zisi (江子四) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Jiang Zisi as a family member and 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 Zisi	江子四	Jiang Zisi
Personal name	Jiang Zisi	江子四	Jiang Zisi
Posthumous name	Resolute	毅子	Yizi
Personal name	Zisi	子四	Zisi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liangshu:043:s0068

Roles

Family Member
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: killed in battle
Explicit · liangshu:043:s0089

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 大同初 · Western Year: AD 535
Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:043:s0077
Source Date: Text: 太清二年 · Western Year: AD 548
Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:043:s0086, liangshu:043:s0104

Family

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Sibling of Jiang Ziwu (子五)
Kinship Term: brother / 兄弟 · Shared Parentage: full
Child of Jiang Facheng (法成)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Sibling of Jiang Ziyi (江子一)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder

Career and standing

Label: right assistant / 右丞 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同初 · Western Year: AD 535
Explicit · liangshu:043:s0077
Label: Secretariat gentleman / 中書侍郎 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · liangshu:043:s0091
Label: Yellow Gate gentleman / 黃門侍郎 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · liangshu:043:s0093
Status: removed from office · Action: demoted
Explicit · liangshu:043:s0082

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Emperor Wu of Liang (梁武帝)
Explicit · liangshu:043:s0079

References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 43Volume 43: Wei Can; Jiang Ziyi; Jiang Zisi; Jiang Ziwu; Zhang Sheng; Shen Jun; Liu Jingli · 9 passages

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韋粲江子一弟子四子五張嵊沈浚柳敬禮 Wei Can; Jiang Ziyi; his younger brothers Zisi and Ziwu; Zhang Sheng; Shen Jun; Liu Jingli

弟子四，歷尚書金部郎。 His younger brother Zisi had held gentleman in the treasury bureau of gold.

子四自右丞上封事，極言得失，高祖甚善之，詔尚書詳擇施行焉。 From his post as right assistant Zisi submitted a memorial on gains and losses; the Founding Emperor greatly approved and ordered the Secretariat to examine and carry out what was fit.

子四乃趨前代炯等對，言甚激切，高祖怒呼縛之，子四據地不受，高祖怒亦止，乃釋之。 Zisi hurried forward to answer for Jiong and the rest in fierce words; the Founding Emperor ordered him bound; Zisi sat on the ground and would not submit; the emperor's anger ceased and he released him.

請與其弟子四、子五帥所領百餘人，開承明門挑賊。 He asked with his younger brothers Zisi and Ziwu to lead more than a hundred men to open the Chengming Gate and challenge the bandit.

子四、子五見事急，相引赴賊，並見害。 Zisi and Ziwu, seeing affairs urgent, pulled one another toward the bandit and were both killed.

詔曰：「故戎昭將軍、通直散騎侍郎、南津校尉江子一，前尚書右丞江子四，東宮直殿主帥子五，禍故有聞，良以矜惻，死事加等，抑惟舊章。 An edict said, "The late General of Martial Proclamation, regular palace attendant, and colonel of the southern ford Jiang Ziyi; the late right assistant Jiang Zisi; and Eastern Palace direct-hall commander Ziwu—misfortune has brought report and we are deeply moved; to die for the affair merits higher rank by old regulations.

可贈子一給事黃門侍郎，子四中書侍郎，子五散騎侍郎。」 Ziyi may be posthumously made Yellow Gate gentleman; Zisi Secretariat gentleman; Ziwu regular palace attendant."

子四黃門侍郎，諡毅子； Zisi Yellow Gate gentleman with the posthumous title Resolute;