Meng Hanqiong (孟漢瓊)

Overview

The translated histories identify Meng Hanqiong as an attendant, courtier, eunuch, and military officer. This record brings together 26 passages from 6 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Meng Hanqiong	孟漢瓊	Meng Hanqiong
Given	Hanqiong	漢瓊	Hanqiong
Personal name	Hanqiong	漢瓊	Hanqiong
Personal	Meng Hanqiong	孟漢瓊
Personal name	Meng Hanqiong	孟漢瓊	Meng Hanqiong
Personal	Meng Hanqiong	孟漢瓊	Mèng Hànqióng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:051:s0129, jiuwudaishi:072:s0125, xinwudaishi:007:s0116
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:038:s0101
Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:042:s0064, jiuwudaishi:066:s0032

Roles

Attendant
Courtier
Eunuch
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: executed · Authority Person Id: Li Congke (李從珂)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:038:s0104
Cause: execution / 戮 · Place: roadside / 路左 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 潞王行及陝州 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:072:s0143
Manner: killed / 殺 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: AD 934 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit · xinwudaishi:007:s0043

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: AD 934 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:007:s0043
Source Date: Text: 宦者孟漢瓊因以用事 · Western Interval: Start: AD 930 · End: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:038:s0101
Source Date: Text: 廢帝惡而殺之 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:038:s0104
Source Date: Text: 明宗即位 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:072:s0127
Source Date: Text: 明宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:066:s0032
Source Date: Text: 明宗病甚 · Western Year: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:007:s0116
Source Date: Text: 潞王…澠池 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:072:s0141
Source Date: Text: 秦王領兵至天津橋 · Western Year: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:072:s0131
Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:042:s0064
Source Date: Text: 長興四年 · Western Year: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:051:s0129, jiuwudaishi:051:s0121

Career and standing

Label: young attendant / 小豎
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:072:s0125
Label: Commissioner of the Southern Court of the Palace Secretariat / 宣徽南院使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明宗即位 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:072:s0127
Label: Right Guard senior general; acting Director of Palace Attendants; Northern Palace Bureau commissioner / 右衛大將軍、知內侍省、宣徽北院使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0064
Label: Grand General of Agile Cavalry / 驃騎大將軍 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 閔帝嗣位 · Western Year: AD 933
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:072:s0136
Label: Grand Preceptor with ceremonials equal to the Three Dukes / 開府儀同三司 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 閔帝嗣位 · Western Year: AD 933
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:072:s0136

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: accuser · Action: had-prince-killed · Other Person Id: Prince of Qin (秦王)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:038:s0103
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: ordered-suppression · Other Person Id: Li Congrong (李從榮)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:051:s0129
Kind: political · Role: reporter · Action: reported-to-emperor · Other Person Id: Li Siyuan (李嗣源) · Place: Tianjin Bridge crisis / 天津橋 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 秦王領兵至天津橋 · Western Year: AD 933
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:072:s0131
Kind: political · Role: courtier · Action: went-to-meet-Feidi · Other Person Id: Li Congke (李從珂)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:038:s0104
Relation: attendant-of · Person Id: Wang Rong (王熔)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:072:s0125
Relation: client-of · Person Id: Prince of Qin (秦王)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:072:s0129
Relation: client-of · Person Id: Consort Wang Shufei (王淑妃)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:072:s0129
Relation: allied-with · Person Id: Feng (馮)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:072:s0130
Relation: allied-with · Person Id: Zhu (朱)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:072:s0130

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: sowed disaster; usual eunuch behavior · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:072:s0147
Kind: character · Statement: clever, shrewd, skilled at intrigue
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:072:s0128

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 1 passage

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己卯，以武德使孟漢瓊為右衛大將軍、知內侍省，充宣徽北院使。 On jimao Meng Hanqiong became right guard senior general, acting palace attendant director, and northern palace bureau commissioner.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 51Volume 51 Book of Later Tang 27: Biographies 3: Imperial Family · 1 passage

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孟漢瓊被甲乘馬，召馬軍都指揮使朱洪實，使將五百騎討從榮，從榮方據胡床，坐橋上，遣左右召康義誠。 Meng Hanqiong donned armor, mounted his horse, and summoned Horse Army Commander Zhu Hongshi to lead five hundred cavalry against Congrong. Congrong was lounging on a camp chair on the bridge and sent attendants to summon Kang Yicheng.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 66Volume 66 Book of Later Tang 42: Biographies 8: an Zhonghui, Zhu Hongzhao, Zhu Hongshi, Kang Yicheng, Yao Yanchou, Song Lingxun · 6 passages

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即令武德使孟漢瓊至中書，與宰臣商量重誨事。 He sent Martial Virtue commissioner Meng Hanqiong to the Secretariat to discuss Chonghui with the chief ministers.

道等因附漢瓊奏曰：「此斷自宸旨，然重臣不可輕議移改。」 They told Hanqiong to report, "The decision is yours, Majesty, but do not lightly move a great minister."

而宣徽使孟漢瓊自西回，亦奏重誨過惡。 Xuanhui commissioner Meng Hanqiong, back from the west, also denounced Chonghui.

延壽使其妻興平公主入言於中，延光亦因孟漢瓊、王淑妃進說，故皆得免。 Yanshou's wife the Princess of Xingping pleaded within; Yanguang used Meng Hanqiong and Consort Wang—both won leave.

十月，范延光出鎮常山，以三司使馮贇與弘昭對掌樞務，與康義誠、孟漢瓊同謀以殺秦王。 Month 10 Fan Yanguang went to Changshan; Feng Yun shared the Privy Council with Hongzhao; they joined Kang Yicheng and Meng Hanqiong to plot the Prince of Qin's death.

及秦王兵扣端門，洪實為孟漢瓊所使，率先領騎軍自左掖門出逐秦王，自是義誠陰銜之。 At the assault on the Duan Gate Meng Hanqiong sent Hongshi's cavalry out the Left Flank Gate against the prince; Yicheng thereafter bore a grudge.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 72Volume 72 Book of Later Tang 48: Biographies 24: Zhang Chengye, Zhang Juhan, Ma Shaohong, Meng Hangqiong · 13 passages

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孟漢瓊，本鎮州王鎔之小豎也。 Meng Hanqiong was originally a young attendant of Wang Rong of Zhenzhou.

明宗鎮常山，得侍左右。 When Mingzong governed Changshan, Hanqiong came to serve at his side.

明宗即位，自諸司使累遷宣徽南院使。 When Mingzong ascended the throne, Hanqiong rose in succession from various bureau commissioner posts to Commissioner of the Southern Court of the Palace Secretariat.

漢瓊性通黠，善交構。 Hanqiong was clever and shrewd by nature and skilled at intrigue.

秦王領兵至天津橋，時漢瓊與朱、馮及康義誠方會議於內庭，謀猶未決，漢瓊獨出死力，先入殿門，奏於明宗，語在《秦王傳》。 When the Prince of Qin led troops to the Tianjin Bridge, Hanqiong was meeting with Zhu, Feng, and Kang Yicheng in the inner court; the plot was still undecided. Hanqiong alone exerted himself to the utmost, entered the palace gate first, and reported to Mingzong — the account is in the 《Biography of the Prince of Qin》.

漢瓊即自介馬以召禁軍。 Hanqiong then mounted a horse himself to summon the palace guard.

秦王既誅，翌日，令漢瓊馳騎召閔帝於鄴。 After the Prince of Qin was executed, the next day Hanqiong was ordered to ride post-haste to Ye to summon Emperor Min.

〈（《通鑒》：遣漢瓊征從厚，且權知天雄軍府事。）〉 (The 《Zizhi Tongjian》: Hanqiong was dispatched to summon Conghou and was also made acting administrator of the Tianxiong military governorship.)〉

閔帝嗣位，尤恃恩寵，期月之內，累加開府儀同三司、驃騎大將軍。 When Emperor Min succeeded to the throne, Hanqiong relied especially on imperial favor. Within a single month he was repeatedly promoted to Grand Preceptor with ceremonials equal to the Three Dukes and Grand General of Agile Cavalry.

西軍既叛，閔帝急召漢瓊，欲令先入於鄴，漢瓊藏匿不行。 When the western army rebelled, Emperor Min urgently summoned Hanqiong, wishing to send him ahead into Ye first, but Hanqiong hid himself and would not go.

時王淑妃恒令漢瓊傳教旨於潞王，王善待之，故漢瓊自謂潞王於己有恩。 At that time Consort Wang Shufei constantly had Hanqiong convey imperial instructions to the Prince of Lu, and the prince treated him well. Hanqiong therefore considered that the Prince of Lu owed him a debt of gratitude.