Liu Bingzhi (劉秉直)

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Bingzhi as an administrator and official. This record brings together 5 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	Liu Bingzhi	劉秉直	Liú Bǐngzhí
Courtesy	Qingchen	清臣	Qīngchén

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:192:s0221

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 至正八年 · Western Year: AD 1348
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0222

Family

Kinship Role: parents · Count: 2 · Qualitative: elderly
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0228

Career and standing

Label: circuit intendant of Weihui / 衛輝路總管 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 至正八年 · Western Year: AD 1348
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0222
Status: resigned-to-care-for-parents · Action: entered
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0228

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: yuan · Relation: served
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0222
Place: Wuqing in Dadu / 大都武清
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0221

Events and relationships

Kind: relief · Role: official · Action: famine-relief
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0225
Kind: ritual · Role: official · Action: prayed-ended-insect-plague
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0224
Kind: ritual · Role: official · Action: prayed-for-rain-at-Cangyu
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0226, yuanshi:192:s0227
Kind: legal · Role: intendant · Action: solved-Zhang-Ju-murder · Other Person Id: Zhang Ju (張聚)
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0223

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 192Volume 192 Biographies 79: Virtuous Officials 2 · 5 passages

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劉秉直，字清臣，大都武清人。 Liu Bingzhi, courtesy name Qingchen, was a native of Wuqing in Dadu.

賊劫汲縣民張聚鈔一千二百錠而殺之，賊不獲，秉直具詞致禱城隍祠，而使人伺於死所，忽有村民阿蓮者，戰怖僕地，具言賊之姓名及所在，乃命尉襲之，果得賊於汴，遂正其罪。 Bandits robbed and murdered Zhang Ju of Ji County for twelve hundred ingots of paper money, but could not be found; Bingzhi prayed at the City God shrine and posted men at the scene; a villager named Alian, shaking with fear, fell to the ground and named the culprits and where they hid; Bingzhi sent the bailiff after them, captured them in Bian, and punished them according to law.

秋七月，蟲螟生，民患之，秉直禱於八蜡祠，蟲皆自死。 In the seventh month caterpillars and locusts appeared and plagued the people; Bingzhi prayed at the Eight Sacrifices shrine, and the pests died off.

歲大饑，人相食，死者過半，秉直出俸米，倡富民分粟，餒者食之，病者與藥，死者與棺以葬。 Famine struck that year; people ate the dead and more than half perished; Bingzhi distributed his salary grain, urged the wealthy to share their stores, fed the hungry, gave medicine to the sick, and coffins to bury the dead.

天不雨，禾且槁，秉直詣城北太行之蒼峪神祠，具詞祈祝，有青蛇蜿蜒而出，觀者異之。 When drought threatened the crops, Bingzhi went to the Cangyu God shrine in the Taihang foothills north of the city and prayed; a green snake emerged and wound its way forth, to the wonder of all who saw it.