Sui and Tang · Official and Statesman

Miao Jinqing 苗晉卿

c. AD 685 - AD 765

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Miao Jinqing was an official and Statesman.

IdentityHistorical · Male

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TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Courtesy name Yuanfu 元輔 Yuanfu
Posthumous name Wen Zhen 文貞

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 140Volume 140 Biographies 65: Cui Miao, Two Pei's, Lu · 22 passages
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安祿山反，竇廷芝棄陜郡不守，楊國忠本忌其有望，即奏「東道賊沖，非大臣不可鎮遏」，授陜郡太守、陜虢防禦使，晉卿見帝，以老辭，忤旨，聽致仕於家。 When An Lushan rebelled, Dou Tingzhi abandoned Shaan commandery without defending it; Yang Guozhong, who had long resented Jinqing's standing with the people, immediately memorialized that "the eastern route is where the rebels will strike—only a great minister can hold them back," and appointed him prefect of Shaan commandery and defense commissioner of Shan-Guo; when Jinqing saw the emperor he pleaded old age and declined, contravened the imperial will, and was permitted to retire at home.
玄宗崩，肅宗疾甚，詔晉卿攝冢宰，固讓曰：「大行遺詔，皇帝三日聽政，稽祖宗故事，則無冢宰之文，奉遺詔則宜聽朝。 When Emperor Xuanzong died and Emperor Suzong was gravely ill, an edict appointed Jinqing acting chief minister (zhongzai); he firmly declined, saying: "The late emperor's testamentary edict states that the emperor shall hold court after three days; consulting ancestral precedent, there is no provision for a chief minister; following the testamentary edict, he should attend court.
永泰初薨，年八十一，贈太師，京兆少尹護喪，謚曰懿獻，元載未顯時，為晉卿所遇，載方相，故諷有司改謚文貞。 In the beginning of the Yongtai era he died at age eighty-one; he was posthumously made grand preceptor, with the vice governor of Jingzhao overseeing his funeral; his posthumous title was Yi Xian; when Yuan Zai was still obscure he had been favored by Jinqing, and when Yuan Zai became chancellor he prompted the office to change the posthumous title to Wen Zhen.