Qin and Han · General

Wei Qing 衛青

Attested BC 141 - BC 87

Passages
66
Chapters
18
Histories
3

Overview

The translated histories identify Wei Qing as an aristocrat, general, and military officer. This record brings together 66 passages from 18 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Wei Qing 衛青 Wei Qing
Title General of the Guard 衛將軍 Wei Jiangjun
Title General of the Guards 衛將軍
Title General Wei 衛將軍 Wei Jiangjun
Title General Wei Qing 衛將軍 Wei Jiangjun
Title General Wei Qing 衛將軍青 Wèi jiāngjūn Qīng
Title General Wei Qing 衛將軍 Wèi jiāngjūn
Title General-in-chief 大將軍
Title Grand General 大將軍 Da Jiangjun
Title Grand General 大將軍
Title Grand General 大將軍 Dà jiāngjūn
Personal Qing 青
Given Qing 青 Qīng
Given name Qing 青 Qing
Surname Wei 衛
Surname Wei 衛 Wei
Surname Wei 卫 Wei
Personal Wei Qing 青
Personal name Wei Qing 衛青 Wei Qing
Personal Wei Qing Wei Qing
Personal name Wei Qing 衛青
Personal Wei Qing 衛青 Wèi Qīng
Personal name Wei Qing 衛青 Wèi Qīng
Personal Wei Qing 卫青 Wei Qing
Personal name Wei Qing 卫青 Wei Qing
Personal Wei Qing 青 Qing
Personal Wei Qing
Personal name Wei Qing 青 Qīng
Surname 衛 Wei
Given 青 Qing

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • General
  • Military Officer

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 乃命票、衛 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:099:s0024
  • Source Date: Text: 元朔六年 · Western Year: BC 123
    Explicit · shiji:109:s0085
  • Source Date: Text: 元狩四年 · Western Year: BC 119
    Explicit · shiji:109:s0119, shiji:109:s0120
  • Source Date: Text: 卫青 · Western Interval: Start: BC 129 · End: BC 106
    Explicit · houhanshu:089:s0052
  • Source Date: Text: 武帝 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:059:s0168
  • Source Date: Text: 武帝以卫青数征伐有功 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:125:s0077
  • Source Date: Text: 武帝伐匈奴時期 · Western Interval: Start: BC 129 · End: BC 119
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:120:s0045, shiji:120:s0065
  • Source Date: Text: 漢武之世 · Western Interval: Start: BC 129 · End: BC 106
    Strongly inferred · houhanshu:032:s0004
  • Source Date: Text: 漢興六十餘載 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:068:s0254, hanshu:068:s0257, hanshu:068:s0258
  • Source Date: Text: 自是之后 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87
    Explicit · shiji:125:s0067, shiji:125:s0066
  • Source Date: Text: 衛將軍…擊匈奴 · Western Interval: Start: BC 129 · End: BC 91
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:046:s0136
  • Source Date: Text: 衛將軍為言 · Western Year: BC 127
    Explicit · shiji:124:s0093
  • Source Date: Text: 衛將軍舍人 · Western Interval: Start: BC 140 · End: BC 120
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:104:s0061
  • Source Date: Text: 車騎將軍衛青擊匈奴 · Western Year: BC 129
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:108:s0123

Family

  • Sibling of Empress (皇后)
    Kinship Term: elder sister / 姊 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger · Subject Role: younger-brother · Object Role: elder-sister
  • Sibling of Empress Wei (衛皇后)
    Kinship Term: elder sister / 姊 · Subject Relative Age: elder

Career and standing

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: advanced by talent as well as consort-family ties · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Sima Qian (太史公)
    Explicit · shiji:125:s0067
  • Assessment: general (將率) · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · hanshu:068:s0258

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 27Volume 24b: Treatise on Trade 2 · 3 passages
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此後四年，衛青比歲十餘萬眾擊胡，斬捕首虜之士受賜黃金二十餘萬斤，而漢軍士馬死者十餘萬，兵甲轉漕之費不與焉。 In the following four years, Wei Qing year after year led more than one hundred thousand troops to strike the Hu. Soldiers who cut off heads and captured enemies received rewards of more than two hundred thousand jin of gold, while more than one hundred thousand Han soldiers and horses died, not counting the costs of armor and transport.
Book of Han, Chapter 46Volume 37: Ji Bu, Luan Bu and Tian Shu · 2 passages
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Book of Han, Chapter 59Volume 50: Zhang, Feng, Ji and Zheng · 5 passages
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Book of Han, Chapter 68Volume 58: Gongsun Hong, Bu Shi and Er Kuan · 2 passages
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漢之得人，於茲為盛，儒雅則公孫弘、董仲舒、兒寬，篤行則石建、石慶，質直則汲黯、卜式，推賢則韓安國、鄭當時，定令則趙禹、張湯，文章則司馬遷、相如，滑稽則東方朔、枚皋，應對則嚴助、硃買臣，歷數則唐都、洛下閎，協律則李延年，運籌則桑弘羊，奉使則張騫、蘇武，將率則衛青、霍去病，受遺則霍光、金日磾，其餘不可勝紀。 Never did the dynasty gather talent so thickly: Hong, Dong, and Kuan for classical breadth; the Shi brothers for steadfast service; Ji An and Bu Shi for blunt loyalty; Han Anguo and Zheng Dangshi for lifting others; Zhao Yu and Zhang Tang for codifying law; Sima Qian and Xiangru for voice; jesters Dongfang Shuo and Mei Gao; debaters Yan Zhu and Zhu Maichen; calendar-makers Tang Du and Luoxia Hong; the harmonist Li Yan'nian; the reckoner Sang Hongyang; envoys Zhang Qian and Su Wu; blades Wei Qing and Huo Qubing; regents Huo Guang and Jin Midi—and a cloud of names besides.
Book of Han, Chapter 74Volume 64a: Yan, Zhu, Wuqiu, Zhufu, Xu, Yan, Zhong, Wang, and Jia 1 · 2 passages
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Book of Han, Chapter 99Volume 87b: Yang Xiong 2 · 1 passage
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於是聖武勃怒，□整其旅，乃命票、衛，汾□沸渭，雲合電發，飆騰波流，機駭蜂軼，疾如奔星，擊如震霆，砰轒□，破穹廬，腦沙幕，髓余吾。 Then Emperor Wu’s wrath flared: he dressed the ranks, sent Huo Qubing and Wei Qing ahead, and the Fen and Wei valleys seethed like a cauldron. The army massed like storm clouds, struck like lightning, surged like wind on water, swifter than meteors, louder than thunder—wagons rolled, yurts shattered, the desert ran with blood down to the Yuyu River.
Book of Han, Chapter 102Volume 90: Cruel Officials · 1 passage
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Book of Han, Chapter 104Volume 92: Youxias · 2 passages
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Book of Han, Chapter 105Volume 93: Flatterers · 2 passages
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Book of Later Han, Chapter 32Volume 28b: Biography of Feng Yan · 1 passage
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Book of Later Han, Chapter 89Volume 80a: Biographies of Writers 1 · 1 passage
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Book of Later Han, Chapter 125Volume 114: Officials Part One · 1 passage
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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 104Biography of Tian Shu · 16 passages
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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 108Biography of Han Changru · 3 passages
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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 109Biography of General Li · 17 passages
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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 120Biographies of Ji and Zheng · 5 passages
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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 124Biographies of Knight-errants · 1 passage
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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 125Biographies of Flatterers · 1 passage
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