Song, Liao, and Jin · Official and Astronomer

Xiang 祥

Attested AD 1230 - AD 1244

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Xiang was an official and Astronomer.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	Anjing	安靖	Anjing

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1230 to AD 1244 國初
Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 89
AD 1230 to AD 1234 金末
Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 88

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Xuan (璇)
father 父
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 203, passages 86-87
Parent of Jin Dejin (靳德進)
father 父
Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 87
Child of Mother of Jin Xiang
mother 母 · maternal line
Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 88

Career and standing

staff officer under regional commissioners in Yan 置幕下
AD 1230 to AD 1244 國初 · Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 89
Grand Academician of the Hall of Assembled Worthies 集賢大學士
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 91
posthumous name Anjing 諡安靖
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 91

Places and affiliations

Polity Jin 金 · Relation Lived under
Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 88
Polity Id yuan · Relation Served
Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 89
At Luzhou 潞州
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 203, passages 85, 87
At Daming 大名 · Relation Resided
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 203, passage 85

Learning and skills

studied under Hao Wen of Lingchuan 師事陵川郝溫
Teacher Person Id Hao Wen (郝溫)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 87
Skill astronomy and calendrics 星曆 · Level accomplished
Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 87

Events and relationships

Restored mother sight
AD 1230 to AD 1234 金末 · Filial devotion · Son · With Mother of Jin Xiang
Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 88
Spared innocents
Judicial mercy · Intercessor
Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 90
Relation Student of · Person Hao Wen (郝溫)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 87

Assessments and attributes

Assessment filial · Mode named-source-report
Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 88
AD 1230 to AD 1244 國初
Item gold tally 金符 · Relation Bestowed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 89

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · History of Yuan 203, passage 87

References in the histories

History of Yuan, Chapter 203Volume 203 Biographies 90: Medicine and Divination, Arts and Crafts · 5 passages

父祥，師事陵川郝溫，兼善星曆。 His father Xiang studied under Hao Wen of Lingchuan and was also accomplished in astronomy and calendrics.

金末兵亂，與母相失，母悲泣而盲，祥訪得之，舐其目，百日復明，人稱其孝。 During the chaos at the end of the Jin dynasty he was separated from his mother, who wept until she went blind. Xiang found her, licked her eyes in the ancient healing rite, and after a hundred days her sight returned — an act of filial devotion widely praised.

國初，玉出乾劉敏行省於燕，辟祥置幕下，佩以金符。 Early in the dynasty, when Yelü Chucai and Liu Min governed the Yan region, they took Xiang onto their staff and awarded him a gold tally of authority.

時籓帥得擅生殺，無辜者多賴祥以免。 In those days frontier princes held the power of life and death, and many innocents were spared only through Xiang's intervention.

贈集賢大學士，諡安靖。 Posthumously he was honored as Grand Academician of the Hall of Assembled Worthies with the posthumous name Anjing (Peaceful and Tranquil).