Ancient China · Ruler

King Min of Qi 齊愍王

Qi Min Wang

Died BC 284

Passages: 15
Chapters: 5
Histories: 2

Overview

The translated histories identify King Min of Qi as a ruler. This record brings together 15 passages from 5 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	King Min of Qi	齊愍王	Qi Min Wang
Title	King Min	湣王	Min Wang
Regnal	King Min	湣王	Mǐn Wáng
Title	King Min of Qi	齊愍王	Qi Min Wang
Posthumous	King Min of Qi	齊愍王	Qi Min Wang
Title	King Min of Qi	齊湣王	Qi Min Wang
Title	King Min of Qi	齊湣王	Qí Mǐn Wáng
Title	King of Qi	齊王	Qí Wáng
Title	Min Wang	湣王	Min Wang
Title	Qi king	齊王	Qi Wang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · shiji:045:s0004, shiji:080:s0011
Sex: male
Explicit · shiji:082:s0002

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Manner: killed / 殺 · Place: Ju / 莒 · Authority Person Id: Nao Chi (淖齒) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 淖齒既殺湣王於莒 · Western Year: BC 284
Explicit · shiji:082:s0008

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 戰國 · Western Interval: Start: BC 300 · End: BC 284
Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:025:s0060
Source Date: Text: 淖齒既殺湣王於莒 · Western Year: BC 284
Explicit · shiji:082:s0008
Source Date: Text: 湣王時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 300 · End: BC 284
Explicit · shiji:082:s0002
Source Date: Text: 釐王十二年 · Western Year: BC 284
Explicit event contextual date · shiji:045:s0165
Source Date: Text: 齊湣王彊...敗濟西 · Western Interval: Start: BC 286 · End: BC 284
Explicit event contextual date · shiji:080:s0011, shiji:080:s0023

Family

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Parent of King Xiang of Qi (齊襄王)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Kinship Role: sons · Quantity: plural-unspecified · Note: royal heirs sought at Ju / 求諸子
Explicit · shiji:082:s0071

Places and affiliations

Label: Qi · Relation: ruled
Explicit · shiji:080:s0011
Polity: Qi / 齊 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · hanshu:025:s0060, shiji:082:s0002, shiji:082:s0003
Place: Ju / 莒 · Relation: took-refuge-in
Explicit · shiji:082:s0003, shiji:082:s0007

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Tang Mei (唐昧) · Place: Chongqiu / 重丘
Explicit · shiji:080:s0011
Kind: military · Role: defeated-party · Action: fled · Place: Ju / 莒
Explicit · shiji:080:s0023
Kind: military policy · Action: relied on skilled fighters for strength
Explicit · hanshu:025:s0060

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: arrogant; common people could not bear it · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · shiji:080:s0014

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 2Volume 1: Annals of Emperor Gaozu 2 · 1 passage

十二月，詔曰：「秦皇帝、楚隱王、魏安釐王、齊愍王、趙悼襄王皆絕亡後。 In the twelfth month, the edict said: "The First Emperor of Qin, King Yin of Chu, King Anli of Wei, King Min of Qi, and King Daoxiang of Zhao all have lineages without descendants.

Book of Han, Chapter 25Volume 23: Treatise on Punishment and Law · 1 passage

齊愍以技擊彊，魏惠以武卒奮，秦昭以銳士勝。 King Min of Qi drew strength from skilled fighters, King Hui of Wei rose through elite troops, and King Zhao of Qin prevailed through crack soldiers.

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 45House of Han · 1 passage

齊敗，湣王出亡。 Qi suffered defeat, and King Min fled into exile.

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 80Biography of Yue Yi · 5 passages

當是時，齊湣王彊，南敗楚相唐眛於重丘，西摧三晉於觀津，遂與三晉擊秦，助趙滅中山，破宋，廣地千餘里。 At the time, King Min of Qi was at the height of his power. He defeated the Chu chancellor Tang Mei at Chongqiu in the south, crushed the Three Jin at Guanjin in the west, joined the Three Jin in attacking Qin, helped Zhao destroy Zhongshan, defeated Song, and expanded his territory by more than a thousand li.

湣王自矜，百姓弗堪。 Min Wang was arrogant, the common people could not bear it.

諸侯害齊湣王之驕暴，皆爭合從與燕伐齊。 The lords all resented King Min of Qi's arrogant cruelty and hastened to join Yan in an alliance against Qi.

齊湣王之敗濟西，亡走，保於莒。 Defeated west of the Ji River, King Min of Qi fled to Ju for refuge.

齊王遁而走莒，僅以身免； The Qi king fled and went to Ju, barely escaped with his life;

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 82Biography of Tian Dan · 7 passages

湣王時，單為臨菑市掾，不見知。 During the reign of King Min, Dan served as a minor official in the marketplace of Linzi, unknown to anyone of importance.

及燕使樂毅伐破齊，齊湣王出奔，已而保莒城。 When Yan sent Yue Yi to attack and defeat Qi, King Min of Qi fled the capital and eventually took refuge in the city of Ju.

燕軍聞齊王在莒，并兵攻之。 When the Yan army learned that the King of Qi was in Ju, they concentrated their forces to attack the city.

淖齒既殺湣王於莒，因堅守，距燕軍，數年不下。 After Nao Chi had killed King Min in Ju, the city nonetheless held firm and resisted the Yan army; for several years it did not fall.

田單聞之，乃縱反閒於燕，宣言曰：「齊王已死，城之不拔者二耳。 When Tian Dan learned of this, he sent double agents into Yan to spread a rumor: "The King of Qi is already dead, and only two cities remain uncaptured.

初，淖齒之殺湣王也，莒人求湣王子法章，得之太史嬓之家，為人灌園。 Earlier, when Nao Chi killed King Min, the people of Ju searched for the king's son Fa Zhang. They found him in the household of the Grand Historian Jiao, where he had been working as a gardener.

齊王不聽吾諫，故退而耕於野。 The King of Qi would not heed my counsel, so I withdrew and tilled the fields.