Song, Liao, and Jin · Official and Scholar

Xing Baopu 邢抱樸

Xíng Bàopú

Died AD 1004

Passages
14
Chapters
6
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Xing Baopu as an administrator, envoy, family member, and judge. This record brings together 14 passages from 6 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Xing Baopu 邢抱樸 Xíng Bàopú
Given Baopu 抱樸 Bàopú
Given Baopu 抱樸
Given name Baopu 抱樸 Baopu
Surname Xing Xíng
Surname Xing
Personal name Xing Baopu 邢抱樸 Xíng Bàopú
Personal name Xing Baopu 邢抱樸 Xing Baopu

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Envoy
  • Family Member
  • Judge
  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和二十二年二月丙寅 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 22 · Western Year: AD 1004
    Explicit · liaoshi:014:s0097
  • Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0049

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 三年閏九月癸酉 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 3 · Lunar Month: 9 · Intercalary: true · Sexagenary Day: 癸酉 · Western Year: AD 985
    Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0190
  • Source Date: Text: 三年春正月丁巳 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 3 · Season: spring · Lunar Month: 1 · Sexagenary Day: 丁巳 · Western Year: AD 985
    Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0157
  • Source Date: Text: 統和十年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 992
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0042
  • Source Date: Text: 統和十二年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 12 · Western Year: AD 994
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:107:s0014, liaoshi:107:s0015
  • Source Date: Text: 統和20年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 20 · Western Year: AD 1002
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0064
  • Source Date: Text: 統和22年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 22 · Western Year: AD 1004
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0097
  • Source Date: Text: 統和四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:011:s0102
  • Source Date: Text: 統和四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0039
  • Source Date: Text: 統和中 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Western Interval: Start: AD 983 · End: AD 1012
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:061:s0109
  • Source Date: Text: 保寧初 · Western Year: AD 969
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0038

Family

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  • Sibling of Xing Baozhi (邢抱質)
    Kinship Term: brother / 兄弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: uncertain
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full
  • Child of Xing Jian (邢簡)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Child of Lady Chen (陳氏)
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Child of Lady Chen (陳氏)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother

Career and standing

  • Label: drafter of edicts / 知制誥 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年春正月丁巳 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 3 · Season: spring · Lunar Month: 1 · Sexagenary Day: 丁巳 · Western Year: AD 985
    Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0157
  • Label: Minister / Shangshu / 尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年春正月丁巳 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 3 · Season: spring · Lunar Month: 1 · Sexagenary Day: 丁巳 · Western Year: AD 985
    Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0157
  • Label: Vice Minister of Rites / 禮部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年春正月丁巳 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 3 · Season: spring · Lunar Month: 1 · Sexagenary Day: 丁巳 · Western Year: AD 985
    Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0157
  • Label: participating state counselor / 參知政事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和十年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 992
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0042
  • Label: minister of Revenue / 戶部尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0039
  • Label: drafting academician for political affairs and edicts / 政事舍人、知制誥 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保寧初 · Western Year: AD 969
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0038
  • Label: Hanlin academician director / 翰林學士承旨 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0040
  • Label: Hanlin academician / 翰林學士 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0038
  • Label: southern privy commissioner / 南院樞密使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:014:s0064
  • Label: vice minister of Rites / 禮部侍郎 · Action: granted-additional
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0038
  • Label: Hanlin academician / 翰林學士 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年春正月丁巳 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 3 · Season: spring · Lunar Month: 1 · Sexagenary Day: 丁巳 · Western Year: AD 985
    Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0157
  • Label: chief minister / 宰相 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0014
  • Label: commissioner of the Southern Academy / 南院樞密使 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0049
  • Label: palace attendant / 侍中 · Action: posthumously-granted
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0049
  • Status: mourning-leave · Action: entered
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0044
  • Status: recalled-to-office · Action: entered

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: legal · Role: judge · Action: again settled arrears cases at Nanjing under Yelü Xiuge · Other Person Id: Xiuge (休哥)
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0048
  • Kind: appointment · Role: appointee · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年春正月丁巳 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 3 · Season: spring · Lunar Month: 1 · Sexagenary Day: 丁巳 · Western Year: AD 985
    Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0157
  • Kind: legal · Role: envoy-judge · Action: cleared-wrongful-cases
    Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0109
  • Kind: administration · Role: inspector · Action: inspected magistrates and promoted or demoted them · Other Person Id: Han Derang (韓德讓)
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0043
  • Kind: administrative · Role: auditor · Action: ordered-to-audit-Xian-Mausoleum · Place: Xian Mausoleum / 顯陵 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年閏九月癸酉 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 3 · Lunar Month: 9 · Intercalary: true · Sexagenary Day: 癸酉 · Western Year: AD 985
    Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0190
  • Kind: administration · Role: pacifier · Action: pacified western Shanxi after war · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0039
  • Kind: legal · Role: judge · Action: settled long-pending cases at Nanjing
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0041
  • Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Shifang (室昉)
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0040

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: filial devotion · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0047
  • Assessment: greatly satisfied public expectation as inspector of magistrates · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0108
  • Assessment: people felt no grievance remained wherever he went · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0109

Source notes

References in the histories

Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.

History of Liao, Chapter 10Volume 10 Annals 10: Shengzong 1 · 2 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 11Volume 11 Annals 11: Shengzong 2 · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 14Volume 14 Annals 14: Shengzong 5 · 2 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 61Volume 61 Treatises 31: Punishment and Law 1 · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 80Volume 80 Biographies 10: Zhang Jian, Xing Baopu, Ma Dechen, Xiao Pu, Yelu Eight Brothers · 7 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 107Volume 107 Biographies 37: Exemplary Women · 1 passage