Qie Yi (郄乙) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Qie Yi as a named individual. This record brings together 4 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Qie Yi	郄乙	Qiè Yǐ

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:192:s0102

Roles

Named Individual

Life and dates

Death

Cause: beaten · Other Person Id: Ren Jia (任甲)
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0102

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 泰定四年 · Western Year: AD 1327
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:192:s0102, yuanshi:192:s0098

Family

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Spouse of Lady Sun (孫氏)
Kinship Term: concubine / 妾 · Union Category: concubinage · Subject Role: concubine · Object Role: husband
Kinship Term: concubine / 妾 · Union Category: concubinage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: concubine
Spouse of Lady Wang (王氏)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 192Volume 192 Biographies 79: Virtuous Officials 2 · 4 passages

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彰德富商任甲，抵睢陽，驢斃，令郄乙剖之，任以怒毆郄，經宿而死。 A wealthy merchant of Zhangde named Ren Jia reached Suiyang; when his donkey died he ordered Qie Yi to butcher it, then beat Qie in a rage; Qie died overnight.

郄有妻王氏、妾孫氏，孫訴於官，官吏納任賄，謂郄非傷死，反抵孫罪，置之獄。 Qie had a wife, Lady Wang, and a concubine, Lady Sun; when Sun brought suit, officials took Ren's bribes, declared that Qie had not died of the beating, charged Sun instead, and threw her in prison.

王來訴冤，觀音奴立破械出孫於獄，呼府胥語之曰：「吾為文具香幣，若為吾以郄事禱諸城隍神，令神顯於吾。」 Lady Wang came to plead her case; Guanyinnu at once had Sun released from prison, summoned a clerk, and said, "Prepare incense and offerings; go pray to the City God about Qie's death, and let the god reveal the truth to me."

有睢陽小吏，亦預郄事，畏觀音奴嚴明，且懼神顯其事，乃以任所賂鈔陳首曰：「郄實傷死，任賂上下匿其實，吾亦得賂，敢以首。」 A petty clerk of Suiyang who had been involved in the case, fearing Guanyinnu's severity and that the god would expose the truth, presented the bribe money he had taken from Ren and confessed: "Qie truly died of the beating; Ren bribed officials up and down to cover it up, and I took a bribe as well—I come forward to confess."