Overview
Yang Shiqi was an official and Statesman.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Attested activity
AD 1424 to AD 1435 仁、宣之世
AD 1425 仁宗即位
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment combined virtues of Zhang Yong, Fu Yaoyu, and Fan Jingren · About Person Id Jian Yi (蹇義) · Mode named-person-judgment Speaker Yang Shiqi (楊士奇)
- Assessment upheld the larger pattern with Xia Yuanji · Mode historian-judgment
References in the histories
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History of Ming, Chapter 149Volume 149 Biographies 37: Jian Yi, Xia Yuanji · 5 passages
時惟楊士奇亦得賜「貞一」印及敕。
At that time only Yang Shiqi likewise received the "Upright and One" seal and an imperial edict.
士奇嘗於帝前謂義曰：「何過慮？」
Shiqi once said to Jian Yi in the Emperor's presence, "Why such excessive worry?"
帝以義、原吉、士奇、榮四人者皆已老，賜璽書曰：「卿等皆祖宗遺老，畀輔朕躬。
Seeing that Jian Yi, Xia Yuanji, Yang Shiqi, and Yang Rong were all advanced in years, the Emperor bestowed an imperial letter: "You are all surviving elders left by our ancestors, entrusted to assist me.
士奇常言：「張詠之不飾玩好，傅堯俞之遇人以誠，範景仁之不設城府，義兼有之。」
Shiqi often said, "Zhang Yong's disdain for ornamental luxuries, Fu Yaoyu's sincerity toward others, and Fan Jingren's freedom from hidden designs—Jian Yi combined them all."
義善謀，榮善斷，而原吉與士奇尤持大體，有古大臣風烈。
Jian Yi excelled at planning, Yang Rong at decision, while Xia Yuanji and Yang Shiqi especially upheld the larger pattern, with the bearing of great ministers of antiquity.