Miao Jingqing (苗晉卿)

Overview

Miao Jingqing was an official and Statesman.

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	Wen-zhen	文貞	Wénzhēn

AD 765 永泰元年四月
From Source Date: Text: 永泰元年四月 · Western Year: AD 765
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 219

years already declining into old age
AD 762 時晉卿年已衰暮
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 79

AD 762 代宗踐祚，又詔晉卿攝冢宰
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 117, passages 65, 79
AD 763 廣德初
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 117, passages 216-218
AD 765 永泰元年四月
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 219
AD 756 肅宗詔晉卿攝冢宰
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 51

mourning regent (acting zaizai) 攝冢宰
AD 762 代宗踐祚，又詔晉卿攝冢宰 · Again ordered to serve
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 65
Eastern Capital Retention Officer / guardian 東都留守
Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 222
mourning regent (acting zaizai) 攝冢宰
AD 756 肅宗詔晉卿攝冢宰 · Ordered to serve
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 51
chief minister / knowing administration 知政事
AD 763 罷知政事 · Relieved
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 218
posthumous name Wen-zhen 謚文貞
AD 765 永泰元年後 · Changed to
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 223
posthumous name Yi-xian 謚懿獻
AD 765 永泰元年 · Proposed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 221

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Grand Guardian 太保
AD 763 及上自陜至，冊為太保 · Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 218
Lay ill at private residence
AD 763 廣德初 · Ill
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 217
retire as Grand Guardian 以太保致仕
AD 763 又詔以太保致仕 · Retirement · Ordered to retire
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 218
carried by shoulder litter to the Secretariat; enter without hurrying; review affairs every several days 肩輿至中書，入閣不趨，累日一視事
AD 762 上特許肩輿至中書 · Special privilege · Permitted
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 79

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passages 51, 65, 80
AD 763 廣德初
At private residence 私第 · Relation Resided at
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 217
At Secretariat 中書 · Relation Attended
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 79

AD 756 上表固辭
Memorial · Author · With Emperor Suzong (肅宗) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passages 52-63
AD 762 晉卿上表懇辭
Memorial · Author · With Emperor Daizong (代宗) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passages 66-77

Court mourning and state funeral provisions
AD 765 永泰元年四月 · Ritual · Deceased
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 220
Earnestly refused regency
AD 762 晉卿上表懇辭 · Political · Memorialist · With Emperor Daizong (代宗)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passages 66, 78
Firmly refused regency
AD 756 上表固辭 · Political · Memorialist · With Emperor Suzong (肅宗)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passages 52, 64
Kept silent under Tibetan coercion and was unharmed
AD 763 廣德初 · Military · Coerced captive · At Chang'an 長安
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passages 216-217
Ordered to share sacrifices in Suzong temple
AD 772 大歷七年 · Ritual · Honoree · With Emperor Suzong (肅宗) · posthumous temple placement; not an activity date for Jingqing
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 224
appointed as investigating officer 引用為推官
Relation Patron of · Person Yuan Zai (元載)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 222

Assessment esteemed for caution and discretion through three reigns · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 80
mind clouded, appearance decayed, and afflicted with illness (self-reported in memorial)
Health
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 62
afflicted in both feet/legs
Illness disability
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 79
Item condolence gifts of five hundred lengths of silk and cloth and five hundred piculs of grain 賻絹布五百段、米粟五百石 · Relation Bestowed for funeral
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 117, passage 220