Dates uncertain · Official

Yang Xing 楊興

Dates uncertain

Passages: 13
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Xing as an official. This record brings together 13 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yang Xing	楊興	Yang Xing
Courtesy	Junlan	君蘭	Junlan
Title	magistrate of Chang'an	長安令
Given	Xing	興	Xing
Surname	Yang	楊	Yang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

Official

Career and standing

Title: Metropolitan Governor / 京兆尹 · Status: proposed
Explicit · hanshu:075:s0267, hanshu:075:s0292
Title: magistrate of Chang'an / 長安令
Explicit · hanshu:075:s0266, hanshu:075:s0285
Title: regional inspector / 部刺史
Explicit · hanshu:075:s0300

Events and relationships

Type: associate · Person Id: Jia Juanzhi (賈捐之)
Explicit · hanshu:075:s0266

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 75Volume 64b: Yan, Zhu, Wuqiu, Zhufu, Xu, Yan, Zhong, Wang, and Jia 2 · 13 passages

而長安令楊興新以材能得幸，與捐之相善。 Yang Xing, the magistrate of Chang'an, had lately won favor through his abilities and was on close terms with Jia Juanzhi.

捐之欲得召見，謂興曰：「京兆尹缺，使我得見，言君蘭，京兆尹可立得。」 Jia Juanzhi longed for another summons. He told Yang Xing, 'The governorship of the capital is open. Give me a chance to praise you to the throne, Junlan, and you can have that office at once.'

興曰：「縣官嘗言興瘉薛大夫，我易助也。 Yang Xing replied, 'The emperor once said that I was better than Grandee Xue. It should be easy for you to help me.

捐之曰：「令我得代充宗，君蘭為京兆，京兆郡國首，尚書百官本，天下真大治，士則不隔矣。 Jia Juanzhi said, "If I replace Chongzong and you, Junlan, take the capital governorship—the premier local post—and I hold the secretariat—the spine of the bureaucracy—the empire would be truly well ruled and no talent would languish in obscurity.

興曰：「我復見，言君房也。」 Yang Xing said, 'On my next audience I will speak up for you.'

興曰：「顯鼎貴，上信用之。 Yang Xing said, 'Shi Xian stands at the summit of power; the emperor trusts him utterly.

捐之即與興共為薦顯奏，曰：「竊見石顯本山東名族，有禮義之家也。 Jia Juanzhi then drafted with Yang Xing a joint memorial praising Shi Xian: 'We observe that Shi Xian springs from a great Shandong lineage, a house schooled in ritual and duty.

又共為薦興奏，曰：「竊見長安令興，幸得以知名數召見。 They also filed a joint memorial for Yang Xing: 'We note that the magistrate of Chang'an has won fame and repeated audiences with Your Majesty.

興事父母有曾氏之孝，事師有顏閔之材，榮名聞於四方。 He honors his parents with the devotion of Zeng Shen, serves his teachers with the gifts of Yan Hui and Min Sun, and his good name rings through the realm.

為長安令，吏民敬鄉，道路皆稱能。 As magistrate of Chang'an he commands the reverence of officials and commoners alike, and travelers on every road praise his competence.

興兼此六人而有之，守道堅固，執義不回，臨大節而不可奪，國之良臣也，可試守京兆尹。」 Yang Xing unites the virtues of all six: he holds fast to principle, bends duty for no man, and cannot be swayed at the moment of truth. He is a pillar of the state and should be appointed acting metropolitan governor.'

乃下興、捐之獄，令皇后父陽平侯禁與顯共雜治，奏「興、捐之懷詐偽，以上語相風，更相薦譽，欲得大位，漏泄省中語，岡上不道。 Xing and Jia Juanzhi were therefore sent to prison, and the empress's father, Wang Jin, Marquis of Yangping, was ordered to conduct a joint investigation with Shi Xian. They memorialized: 'Xing and Juanzhi harbored deceit, used the emperor's words to hint to one another, praised and recommended each other in turn, sought high office, leaked words spoken within the palace, and deceived their sovereign in an impious way.

興減死罪一等，髡鉗為城旦。 Yang Xing's sentence was commuted one degree from death to shaved head, iron collar, and hard labor on the walls.