Xi Zhongxin (奚忠信)

Overview

The translated histories identify Xi Zhongxin as a general. This record brings together 3 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xi Zhongxin	奚忠信	Xi Zhongxin
Personal name	Xi Zhongxin	奚忠信	Xi Zhongxin
Given	Zhongxin	忠信	Zhongxin

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:062:s0047

Roles

General

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 文德元年十月 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 888
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:050:s0028
Source Date: Text: 約光啟四年 · Western Year: AD 888
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:062:s0047

Career and standing

Status: captive · Action: taken
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:062:s0048

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: attacked-Liaozhou · Outcome: captured
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:062:s0047, jiuwudaishi:062:s0048

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 50Volume 50 Book of Later Tang 26: Biographies 2: Imperial Family · 1 passage

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文德元年十月，孟方立遣將奚忠信將兵三萬襲我遼州，克修設伏於遼之東山，大敗賊軍，擒忠信以獻。 In the tenth month of Wende 1, Meng Fangli sent Xi Zhongxin with thirty thousand men to raid Liaozhou. Ke Xiu laid an ambush on East Mountain and routed the enemy, capturing Zhongxin and sending him to headquarters.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 62Volume 62 Book of Later Tang 38: Biographies 14: Meng Fangli, Zhang Wenli, Dong Zhang · 2 passages

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後二年，方立督部將奚忠信兵三萬攻遼州，以金啖赫連鐸與連和。 Two years later Fangli led his general Xi Zhongxin with thirty thousand men against Liaozhou, bribing Helian Duo to join the campaign.

會契丹攻鐸師失期，忠信三分其兵，鼓而行，克用伏兵於險，忠信前軍沒，既戰，大敗，執忠信，餘眾走脫，歸者才十二。 When Khitan raids delayed Duo's army, Zhongxin split his force in three columns and marched with drums beating; Keyong ambushed him in a pass, destroyed his vanguard, and routed the main body; Zhongxin was captured, and only twelve men made it back.