Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Royal Family Member and Official

Qiang 鏘

c. AD 469 - AD 494

Passages: 11
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Qiang was a Royal Family Member and Official.

Life and dates

Death

AD 494 數日
Killed · Agent Person Id Emperor Ming (高宗) · At Qiang's mansion 鏘宅
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 143

Age

26
Reckoning Sui · When death
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 144

Attested activity

AD 494 延興元年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 134
AD 489 時
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 152

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Consort Dowager Lu (陸太妃)
mother 母 · maternal line
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 142
Sibling of Shuo (鑠)
Poyang and Guiyang 鄱桂 · Uncertain siblings · paternal line
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 152

Career and standing

Minister of Education 司徒
AD 494 延興元年 · Advanced
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 134
General of Rapid Cavalry 驃騎
AD 494 延興元年 · Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 134
Palace Attendant 侍中
AD 494 延興元年 · Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 134
Prince of Poyang 鄱陽王
Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 152

Places and affiliations

Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 134

Learning and skills

Skill literature 文章 · Level loved
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 152

Works and attributed material

Speech · Addressee · Speaker Xie Can (謝粲) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passages 138-139

Events and relationships

Delayed coup
AD 494 延興元年 · Political · Hesitant participant
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 140
Household property sealed and inventoried
Legal · Victim
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 145
Turned back to farewell mother
Personal · Subject · With Consort Dowager Lu (陸太妃)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 142
Urged to act
Political · Addressee · With Liu Ju (劉巨)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 141
Urged to enter palace and raise troops
Political · Proposed leader
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 137
Visited
AD 494 延興元年 · Political · Visitor · With Emperor Ming (高宗) · At eastern mansion 東府
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 135

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Relation Trusted · Person Emperor Ming (高宗)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 136

Assessments and attributes

Assessment contemporaries called them Poyang-Guiyang · Mode named-source-report
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 152

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 135

References in the histories

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History

11 passages

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 35Volume 35 Biographies 16: Gao Zu's Twelve Princes · 11 passages

高宗鎮東府，權勢稍異，鏘每往，高宗常屣履至車迎鏘。 When Emperor Ming garrisoned the eastern mansion his power grew distinct; whenever Qiang visited, Ming often ran out in slippers to his carriage to welcome him.

語及家國，言淚俱下，鏘以此推信之。 Speaking of state and family they wept together; Qiang therefore trusted him.

而宮台內皆屬意於鏘，勸鏘入宮發兵輔政。 Within the palace all looked to Qiang and urged him to enter, raise troops, and assist the government.

制局監謝粲說鏘及隨王子隆曰：「殿下但乘油壁車入宮，出天子置朝堂，二王夾輔號令，粲等閉城門上仗，誰敢不同？ Bureau supervisor Xie Can said to Qiang and Prince of Suizhou Zilong: "Your Highness need only ride the lacquered carriage into the palace, set the Son of Heaven in court with two princes flanking command — we shut the gates and arm the guard — who would not follow?

子隆欲定計，鏘以上台兵力既悉度東府，且慮事難捷，意甚猶豫。 Zilong wished to fix the plan; Qiang, seeing court forces had all shifted to the eastern mansion and fearing the coup would not be swift, hesitated deeply.

馬隊主劉巨，世祖時舊人，詣鏘請間，叩頭勸鏘立事。 Horse-corps chief Liu Ju, a veteran of Emperor Wu's day, visited Qiang in private, kowtowed, and urged him to act.

鏘命駕將入，復回還內與母陸太妃別，日暮不成行。 Qiang ordered his carriage to enter, then turned back to farewell his mother, Consort Dowager Lu; by dusk he still had not gone.

數日，高宗遣二千人圍鏘宅害鏘，謝粲等皆見殺。 Days later Emperor Ming sent two thousand men to surround Qiang's house and kill him; Xie Can and the rest were all slain.

鏘時年二十六。 Qiang was twenty-six.

時鄱陽王鏘好文章，鑠好名理，時人稱為「鄱桂。」 Prince of Poyang Qiang loved literature and Shuo loved abstruse principles; people called them "Poyang and Guiyang."

鄱陽王見害，鑠遷中軍將軍，開府儀同三司。 When the Prince of Poyang was killed, Shuo was made General of the Central Army and granted open office with ceremony equal to the Three Dukes.