Sui and Tang · Exemplary Tang Official

Song Jing 宋璟

Attested AD 769

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Song Jing was an Exemplary Tang Official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 769 大歷四年
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 135, passage 39

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 135Volume 131 Biographies 81: Li Mian; Li Gao and His Sons Xianggu and Daogu · 1 passage

及代歸，至石門停舟，悉搜家人所貯南貨犀象諸物，投之江中，耆老以為可繼前朝宋璟、盧奐、李朝隱之徒。 When he left office and returned north, he moored at Shimen, gathered every piece of southern treasure—ivory, rhinoceros horn, and the like—that his household had accumulated, and threw it all into the river. The elders held that he could stand beside such paragons of integrity as Song Jing, Lu Huan, and Li Chaoyin of the previous reign.