Jing Chu (景初) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Jing Chu 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
Personal	Jing Chu	景初
Given name	Chu	初
Descriptive kinship	father of Jing Fan	景範父名初

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0150

Roles

Family Member
Official

Life and dates

Death

Note: death implied by Fan's mourning
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:127:s0166

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 世宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 954 · End: AD 956
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:127:s0150

Family

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Parent of Jing Fan (景範)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: Bureau Director in Revenue / 戶部郎中 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0150
Status: retired · Action: entered
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0150

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 127Volume 127 Book of Later Zhou 29: Biographies 7: Lu Wenji, Ma Yisun, He Ning, Su Yugui, Jing Fan · 9 passages

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清泰初，中書闕輔相，末帝訪之於朝，左右曰：「臣見班行中所譽，當大拜者，姚顗、盧文紀、崔居儉耳。」 Early in Qingtai, with no vice-chancellor in the Secretariat, the Last Emperor asked the court whom to appoint. Attendants said, "Of those the ranks most commend for great promotion, I see Yao Hao, Lu Wenji, and Cui Jujian."

初次河陽，召文紀、張延朗謀議。 When he first reached Heyang he called Wenji and Zhang Yanlang to deliberate.

初，馮道罷同州入朝，拜司空。 Earlier Feng Dao had left Tongzhou for court and been appointed Grand Master of Works.

裔孫初為河中從事，因事赴闕，宿於邏店。 He had first served as aide in Hezhong; on business he reached the capital and lodged at a relay station.

〈（《澠水燕談》：範質初舉進士，時和凝知貢舉，凝嘗以宰輔自期，登第之日，名第十三人，及覽質文，尤加賞嘆，即以第十三名處之，場屋間謂之「傳衣缽」，若禪宗之相付授也。〈From Talks and Tales of the Mian Waters〉: When Fan Zhi first sat for the Jinshi, He Ning oversaw the examinations. Ning had long expected the chief ministership; on the day he passed, his own name was thirteenth. Reading Zhi's essay he admired it still more and placed him thirteenth. In the hall they called this "passing the robe and bowl," as in Chan succession.

開運初，罷相守本官，未幾，轉左僕射。 Early in Kaiyun he left the chief ministership but kept his post; soon he became left vice director.

國初，遷太子太傅。 At the state's founding he became grand tutor of the heir.

國初，加守司空，尋罷相守本官。 At the founding he was made acting grand master of works; soon he left the chief ministership but kept his post.

據《世宗紀》，景範父名初，以戶部郎中致仕。）〉 According to Shizong's annals, Fan's father was named Chu and retired as revenue bureau director.〉