Ren Jia (任甲) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Ren Jia as a merchant. 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	Ren Jia	任甲	Rén Jiǎ

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:192:s0102

Roles

Merchant

Life and dates

Attested activity

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

Career and standing

Label: wealthy merchant / 富商
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0102
Status: punished · Action: sentenced · Authority Person Id: Guanyinnu (觀音奴)
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0106

Places and affiliations

Place: Zhangde / 彰德 · Relation: from
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0102

Events and relationships

Kind: criminal · Role: offender · Action: beat-Qie-Yi-to-death · Other Person Id: Qie Yi (郄乙)
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0102

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.

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."

於是罪任商而釋孫妾。 Ren the merchant was punished and Lady Sun was released.