Ancient China · Aristocrat

Xinling 信陵

Attested BC 257 - BC 243

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Xinling was an aristocrat.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 257 to BC 243 Warring States Lord Xinling (allusion)
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 6, passage 120

Events and relationships

Invoked as model of grief
Literary allusion · Exemplar
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 6, passage 120

Assessments and attributes

Assessment exemplar of profound grief at ruined sites · Mode quotation
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 6, passage 120

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 6Volume 6 Annals 6: Emperor Ming of Southern Qi · 1 passage

況乃自經南面，負扆宸居，或功濟當時，德覃一世，而塋壟欑穢，封樹不脩，豈直嗟深牧豎、悲甚信陵而已哉？ How much more when one has faced south on the throne and borne the screen in the imperial hall, or when merit saved the age and virtue steeped a generation—yet mound and tomb are choked with filth and the planted trees go untended: is the sigh to be only as deep as the cowherd's at the passes, the grief as sharp as Xinling's alone?