Ping Jian 平鑒

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0068

Roles

• Administrator
• General
• Official
• Painter
• Student

Family

• Spouse of Lady Liu (劉氏)
  Kinship Term: beloved concubine / 愛妾 · Union Category: concubinage · Relationship State: ended · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: concubine
• Child of Ping Sheng (平勝)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

• Label: director of the masters of writing in the imperial punishments bureau / 都官尚書令 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0096
• Label: general who pacifies the army / 撫軍 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0078
• Label: inspector of Qi Province / 齊州刺史 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0094
• Label: inspector of Xiang Province / 襄州刺史 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0078
• Label: staff officer of the vanguard / 參軍前鋒 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0077
• Label: western campaign general / 征西 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0083
• Label: inspector of Huai Province / 懷州刺史 · Action: held
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0084, beiqishu:026:s0095
• Label: opening office, equal in insignia to three masters of ceremonies / 開府儀同三司 · Action: promoted
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0090
• Status: favor-seeking · Action: yielded-concubine
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0091, beiqishu:026:s0094

Places and affiliations

• Place: Ji in Yan Commandery / 燕郡薊
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0068
• Place: Luoyang / 洛陽 · Relation: traveled-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 孝昌末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 525 · End: AD 527
  Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:026:s0072
• Place: Jinyang / 晉陽 · Relation: traveled-to
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0076

Learning and skills

• Teacher Person Id: Xu Zunming (徐遵明) · Note: did not pursue textual glosses
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0071
• Belief: Confucian learning / 儒業 · Relation: honored
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0071
• Skill: painting / 畫 · Level: practiced-for-livelihood
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0073

Works and attributed material

• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0074, beiqishu:026:s0075, beiqishu:026:s0092, beiqishu:026:s0093

Events and relationships

• Kind: military · Role: defender · Action: built city on old Zhi Road; prayed at well; defeated Western Wei attack · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 西魏來攻 · Western Interval: Start: AD 535 · End: AD 550
  Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:026:s0085, beiqishu:026:s0086, beiqishu:026:s0089, beiqishu:026:s0090
• Kind: political · Role: defector · Action: came over to Gao Huan at Xindu · Other Person Id: Gao Huan (高歡)
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0079
• Kind: political · Role: yielded · Action: sent Lady Liu to He Shikai and received Qi Province · Other Person Id: He Shikai (和士開) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 和士開以佞幸 · Western Interval: Start: AD 565 · End: AD 571
  Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:026:s0091, beiqishu:026:s0094
• Kind: military · Role: vanguard · Action: served Erzhu Rong; first to charge at Gong and Mi · Other Person Id: Erzhu Rong (尒朱榮)
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0076, beiqishu:026:s0077
• Relation: friend-of · Person Id: Murong Yan (慕容儼)
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0072

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: wherever he served, officials missed him and steles praised his virtue · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0095

Source notes

• Statement: governed eight provinces in all and twice held Huai Province
  Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0095