Overview
Mengxun was a ruler and Warlord.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Found inBook of Jin
Life and dates
Death
- AD 433 元嘉十年Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 255
Age
- 66AD 433 元嘉十年 · Reckoning SuiDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 255
Attested activity
- AD 433 元嘉十年Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 255
- AD 417 劉裕滅姚泓Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 129, passage 217
- AD 401 安帝隆安五年Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 255
- AD 420 後八年而宋氏受禪Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 255
- AD 420 敗士業於壞城，遂進克酒泉Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 129, passages 224, 252
- AD 412 義熙八年Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 255
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- AD 412 to AD 433 義熙八年僭立Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 129, passages 237, 255
- AD 401 to AD 433 隆安五年自稱州牧……元嘉十年死Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passages 257, 266
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
- Parent of Zhengde (政德)heir 世子Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 240
- Parent of Maoqian (茂虔)son 子Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passages 254, 256
- destroyed/slew his own kinKinship Role kin · Quantity unspecified · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 262
Career and standing
- shepherd of the province 州牧AD 401 安帝隆安五年 · AssumedDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 255
- EnteredAD 412 義熙八年 · Usurped throneDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 255
- execution 殺Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 219
Places and affiliations
- Polity Northern Liang 北涼 · Relation RuledStrongly inferred · Book of Jin 129, passages 255, 257
- AD 420 敗士業於壞城，遂進克酒泉At Bai'an 白岸 · Relation Traveled toDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 241
- At barbarian borderlands 夷陬 · Relation OriginDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 257
Works and attributed material
- AD 417 劉裕滅姚泓Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 218
- AD 417 劉裕滅姚泓Speech · Speaker · Direct quotationDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passages 221-223
- AD 420 敗士業於壞城，遂進克酒泉Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passages 247-249
- AD 420 敗士業於壞城，遂進克酒泉Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passages 241-243
- AD 420 敗士業於壞城，遂進克酒泉Speech · Speaker · Direct quotationDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 245
- Memorial · Addressee · Direct quotationDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passages 227-236
Events and relationships
- AttackedAD 420 敗士業於壞城，遂進克酒泉 · Military · Commander · At Haoqian 浩亹Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 244
- Burned siege engines and withdrewAD 420 敗士業於壞城，遂進克酒泉 · Military · Commander · At Chuanyan 川岩Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 246
- CampaignedMilitary · Commander · At Danling 丹嶺 · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 261
- CapturedAD 420 敗士業於壞城，遂進克酒泉 · Military · Commander · At Jiuquan 酒泉Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 252
- Defeated byDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 224
- DefeatedDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 252
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- Employed former officers ofDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 254
- Issued false bulletinAD 420 敗士業於壞城，遂進克酒泉 · Military · Commander · At Haoqian 浩亹Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 250
- Mustered troopsMilitary · Commander · At Baijian 白澗 · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 260
- Ordered court regulationsAdministrative · RulerDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passages 237-238
- Raged at newsDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 217
- Raised as figureheadDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 259
- Restrained plunderAD 420 敗士業於壞城，遂進克酒泉 · Military · Commander · At Jiuquan 酒泉Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 253
- Serpent coiled before tentAD 420 敗士業於壞城，遂進克酒泉 · Omen · Witness · At Haoqian 浩亹Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passages 244-245
- Stationed heirDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 240
- Walled Jiankang and returnedAD 420 敗士業於壞城，遂進克酒泉 · Military · Commander · At Jiankang commandery 建康Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 226
- Witnessed Song accessionAD 420 後八年而宋氏受禪 · Political · Contemporary · Polity Id liu-songDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 255
- AD 386 to AD 399 呂光之悖德Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 258
- Relation Received remonstrance from · Person Juqu Chengdu (沮渠成都)Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passages 225-226
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment feasted and hid his wisdom to survive, then let cruelty and usurpation show, scrambling for power · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passages 264-266
- Assessment harsh and violent in temper · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 220
- Assessment saw profit, forgot righteousness, harbored treachery, slew kin, stocked with vicious traits · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 262
Source notes
- Value historicalDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 255
- on the false throne thirty-three yearsField reign-lengthDirectly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 255
References in the histories
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