Luo Yiqing (羅衣輕) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Luo Yiqing as a courtier and musician. This record brings together 6 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	Luo Yiqing	羅衣輕	Luo Yiqing

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0007

Roles

Courtier
Musician

Life and dates

Death

Cause: illness / 疾 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清寧間 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Western Interval: Start: AD 1055 · End: AD 1064
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0023

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 清寧間 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Western Interval: Start: AD 1055 · End: AD 1064
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0023
Source Date: Text: 興宗敗於李元昊 · Western Year: AD 1044
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:109:s0009, liaoshi:109:s0011

Career and standing

Label: court entertainer / 伶官
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0001, liaoshi:109:s0004, liaoshi:109:s0008
Status: near-execution · Action: bound-for-execution · Authority Person Id: Xingzong (興宗) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 興宗敗於李元昊 · Western Year: AD 1044
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0012
Status: pardoned · Action: released · Authority Person Id: Xingzong (興宗)
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0015

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0004
Place: unknown / 不知其鄉里 · Negated: true
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0007

Learning and skills

Skill: comic remonstrance / 詼諧示諫 · Level: renowned
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0004, liaoshi:109:s0008

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Xingzong (興宗) · Quoted: true · Statement: And the one commanding the army is no Emperor Taizong of Tang either! / 行兵底亦不是唐太宗！
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0014
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Xingzong (興宗) · Quoted: true · Statement: Enough of this backgammon folly—you are going to lose everything to him! / 雙陸休癡，和你都輸去也！
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0021
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Xingzong (興宗) · Quoted: true · Statement: Let us first check whether your nose is still in place. / 且觀鼻在否？
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0011

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: remonstrator · Action: halted-and-mocked-fleeing-emperor · Other Person Id: Xingzong (興宗) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 興宗敗於李元昊 · Western Year: AD 1044
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0009, liaoshi:109:s0011
Kind: political · Role: remonstrator · Action: warned-against-gambling-away-cities · Other Person Id: Xingzong (興宗)
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0021, liaoshi:109:s0022

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: used humor to remonstrate and avert disorder · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0004, liaoshi:109:s0006
Item: fur cord / 毳索 · Relation: bound-with
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0012

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 109Volume 109 Biographies 39: Music and Imperial Officials · 6 passages

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伶官 ○羅衣輕 Music Officials ○ Luo Yiqing

遼之伶官當時固多，然能因詼諧示諫，以消未形之亂，惟羅衣輕耳。 The Liao court had many entertainers, but only Luo Yiqing turned humor into counsel and defused brewing crises before they broke out.

羅衣輕，不知其鄉里。 Luo Yiqing's place of origin is not recorded.

故羅衣輕止之曰：「且觀鼻在否？」 Luo Yiqing therefore halted him and quipped, "Let us first check whether your nose is still in place."

羅衣輕應聲曰：「行兵底亦不是唐太宗！」 Luo Yiqing shot back at once, "And the one commanding the army is no Emperor Taizong of Tang either!"

一日復博，羅衣輕指其局曰：「雙陸休癡，和你都輸去也！」 One day they were at the board again; Luo Yiqing pointed at the game and said, "Enough of this backgammon folly—you are going to lose everything to him!"