Liang Chong (梁珫) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Liang Chong as a courtier, eunuch, and official. This record brings together 11 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	Liang Chong	梁珫	Liang Chong
Given	Chong	珫	Chong
Surname	Liang	梁	Liang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Courtier
Eunuch
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: killed by mutinous soldiers · Place: army camp during Hailing assassination / 軍中
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天德三年 · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1151
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Source Date: Text: 正隆六年 · Western Year: AD 1161
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Career and standing

Label: eunuch attendant / 閹豎
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Label: director of the Imperial Attendants Bureau / 近侍局使 · Action: appointed
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Status: slave · Action: former
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Jin / 金 · Relation: served
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Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: accused · Action: accused of colluding with Song
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Kind: administrative · Role: inspector · Action: inspected Southern Capital palace construction
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Kind: political · Role: advisor · Action: urged attack on Song citing Consort Liu · Other Person Id: Consort Liu (劉貴妃)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: smooth and obsequious; adept at currying favor · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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History of Jin, Chapter 131Volume 131 Biographies 69: Huan Zhe, Liang Chong, Song Gui, Pan Shouheng, Fang Ji, Liu Wansu, Zhang Congzheng, Li Qingsi, Ji Tianxi, Zhang Yuansu, Ma Guizhong, Wu Zhen Son: Kang, Li Mao, Hu Dexin · 11 passages

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惟海陵時有梁珫，章宗時有梁道、李新喜幹政，二君為所誤多矣。 Only under Emperor Hailing did Liang Chong, and under Emperor Zhangzong did Liang Dao and Li Xinxi, meddle in government — and both sovereigns were led badly astray.

梁珫，本大抃家奴，隨元妃入宮，以閹豎事海陵。 Liang Chong had been a bondservant in the household of Daban. He entered the palace with the primary consort and served Emperor Hailing as a eunuch attendant.

珫性便佞，善迎合，特見寵信，舊制，宦者惟掌掖廷宮闈之事。 Chong was smooth and obsequious by nature, adept at currying favor, and won exceptional trust. By longstanding custom eunuchs had managed only the inner palace and the women's quarters.

宦者始與政事，而珫委任尤甚，累官近侍局使。 From then on eunuchs entered state affairs, and Chong was entrusted above all the rest, eventually rising to director of the Imperial Attendants Bureau.

及營建南京宮室，海陵數數使珫往視工役。 When the Southern Capital palace was under construction, Hailing sent Chong again and again to inspect the work.

是時，一殿之費已不可勝計，珫或言其未善，即盡撒去。 By then the cost of a single hall was beyond counting. If Chong said the work was not good enough, the whole structure was torn down at once.

海陵欲伐宋，珫因極言宋劉貴妃絕色傾國。 When Hailing planned to attack the Song, Chong lavished praise on Consort Liu of Song, declaring her beauty unmatched and enough to topple a kingdom.

議者言珫與宋通謀，勸帝伐宋，征天下兵以疲弊中國。 Some charged that Chong was in league with the Song: he had urged the emperor to invade so that armies raised across the empire would wear China down.

海陵至和州，聞珫與宋人交通有狀，謂珫曰：「聞汝與宋國交通，傳泄事情。 When Hailing reached He Prefecture he learned that Chong's traffic with the Song was well founded. He said to Chong, "I hear you have been dealing with the Song and leaking our affairs.

又謂校書郎田與信曰：「爾面目亦可疑，必與珫同謀者。」 He told the proofreader Tian Yuxin, "Your face is suspicious too. You must be Chong's accomplice."

海陵遇弑，珫、與信皆為亂軍所殺。 When Hailing was assassinated, Chong and Yuxin were both killed by the mutinous soldiers.