Sima Yingzhi 司馬膺之

Other names

Family

• Kin of Sima Ziru (司馬子如)
  nephew treated like a son 猶子 · paternal line
  uncle 叔 · paternal line · Through Sima Zuan (司馬纂)
  Sources vary in certainty · Book of Northern Qi 18, passages 196-197, 227
• Sibling of Sima Shiyun (司馬世雲)
  maternal younger brother 母弟 · Maternal half siblings
  younger brother 弟 · Uncertain siblings
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passages 190, 194
• Child of Sima Zuan (司馬纂)
  son 子
  Strongly inferred · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 194
• Sibling of Sima Zirui (司馬子瑞)
  younger brother 弟 · Uncertain siblings
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 207

Career and standing

• vice director of the Court of Guard 衛尉少卿
  AD 560 幹明中 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 201
• gentleman in the Secretariat 尚書郎
  AD 534 to AD 537 天平中 · Held
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 196
• Secretariat and Yellow Gate offices 中書、黃門郎
  AD 534 to AD 537 天平中 · Held
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 196
• minister of splendid honors 光祿大夫
  AD 562 to AD 564 河清末 · Held
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 202
• commissioner with protocol equal to the Three Ducal Ministers 儀同三司
  AD 570 to AD 576 武平中 · Invested at home
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 203
• Duke of Xuchang County 須昌縣公
  Received by transfer · With Sima Ziru (司馬子如)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 197

Places and affiliations

• Polity Eastern Wei 東魏 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 196
• Polity Northern Qi 北齊 · Relation Associated
  Strongly inferred · Book of Northern Qi 18, passages 207, 227
• Polity Northern Qi 北齊 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passages 200, 206
• At Ye 鄴 · Relation Resided at
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 190

Learning and skills

• loved learning from youth 少好學
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 195

Works and attributed material

• Rhapsody on the Capital of Shu 蜀都賦
  Relation Annotator · With Yang Xiong (揚雄)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 204
• Classic of Supreme Mystery 太玄經
  Relation Reader
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 204
• Speech · Speaker · Mode quotation Speaker Sima Yingzhi (司馬膺之)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 205

Events and relationships

• Gave heart wholly to
  Political · Adherent · With Hou Jing (侯景)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 190
• Relation Esteemed by · Person Xing Shao (邢卲)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 199
• Relation Follower of · Person Hou Jing (侯景)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 190
• Relation Esteemed by · Person Wang Yuanjing (王元景)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 199

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment bearing and character worth honoring · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 227
• Assessment fine bearing; blunt and proud; household wealthy · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passages 195, 198, 200
• suffered from dysentery for years and could not rise or attend court
  Illness
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 203