Yao Jingxing (姚景行)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yao Jingxing as an official and statesman. This record brings together 12 passages from 5 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yao Jingxing	姚景行	Yáo Jǐngxíng
Given	Jingxing	景行	Jingxing
Surname	Yao	姚	Yao
Personal	Yao Jingxing	姚景行	Yao Jingxing
Personal name	Yao Jingxing	姚景行	Yao Jingxing

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:021:s0054, liaoshi:089:s0049
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:022:s0020, liaoshi:096:s0004, liaoshi:097:s0101

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 壽隆五年 · Western Year: AD 1099
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0189

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 清寧元年 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1055
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:021:s0054
Source Date: Text: 清寧初 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1055
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:089:s0049
Source Date: Text: 清寧九年 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 1063
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0172, liaoshi:097:s0101
Source Date: Text: 大康初 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Western Year: AD 1075
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0185
Source Date: Text: 咸雍七年二月丙寅 · Western Year: AD 1071
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:022:s0171
Source Date: Text: 咸雍二年二月甲午 · Western Year: AD 1066
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:022:s0079
Source Date: Text: 咸雍元年 · Western Year: AD 1065
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0175
Source Date: Text: 壽隆五年 · Western Year: AD 1099
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0190
Source Date: Text: 重熙五年 · Western Year: AD 1036
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0168

Family

Descendant of Yao Hanying (漢英)
Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal

Kinship Role: parent · Count: 1 · Note: entered mourning for a parent
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0183

Career and standing

Label: Xingzhong Prefecture administrator / 知興中府事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸雍七年二月丙寅 · Western Year: AD 1071
Explicit · liaoshi:022:s0171
Label: Southern Court privy commissioner / 南院樞密使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸雍二年二月甲午 · Western Year: AD 1066
Explicit · liaoshi:022:s0079
Label: Associate Administrator of Affairs / 參知政事 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 清寧元年甲午 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1055
Explicit · liaoshi:021:s0054
Label: associate privy commissioner / 樞密副使 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:021:s0054
Label: Southern Court privy commissioner / 南院樞密使 · Action: restored · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸雍二年七月辛酉 · Western Year: AD 1066
Explicit · liaoshi:022:s0090
Status: retired · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸雍二年七月丙辰 · Western Year: AD 1066
Explicit · liaoshi:022:s0088

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:021:s0054, liaoshi:089:s0049, liaoshi:096:s0004, liaoshi:097:s0101
Place: Xingzhong County / 興中縣
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0166

Learning and skills

Credential: jinshi second rank / 進士乙科 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙五年 · Western Year: AD 1036
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0168

Works and attributed material

Mode: direct-speech · Unit Field: zh
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0179

Source notes

From: Jingxi / 景禧 · To: Jingxing / 景行
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0164

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 21Volume 21 Annals 21: Daozong 1 · 1 passage

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甲午，以樞密副使姚景行為參知政事，翰林學士吳湛為樞密副使，參知政事、同知樞密院事韓紹文為上京留守。 On jiawu day associate privy commissioner Yao Jingxing was made Associate Administrator of Affairs; Hanlin academician Wu Zhan associate privy commissioner; Associate Administrator of Affairs and associate privy commissioner Han Shaowen supreme capital regent.

History of Liao, Chapter 22Volume 22 Annals 22: Daozong 2 · 4 passages

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二月甲午，詔武定軍節度使姚景行，問以治道，拜南院樞密使。 On jiawu day of the second month Wuding Army military commissioner Yao Jingxing was issued an edict on the way of governance and appointed Southern Court privy commissioner.

丙辰，南院樞密使姚景行致仕。 On bingchen day Southern Court privy commissioner Yao Jingxing retired.

辛酉，景行復前職。 On xinyou day Jingxing resumed his former post.

丙寅，以南院樞密使姚景行知興中府事。 On bingyin day Southern Court privy commissioner Yao Jingxing was made administrator of Xingzhong Prefecture.

History of Liao, Chapter 89Volume 89 Biographies 19: Yelu Shucheng, Yang Ji, Yelu Hanliu, Yang Ji, Yelu Heshang · 1 passage

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清寧初，入知南院樞密使，與姚景行同總朝政。 Early in Qingning he entered court service as Commissioner of the Southern Bureau of Military Affairs and, together with Yao Jingxing, directed the government.

History of Liao, Chapter 96Volume 96 Biographies 26: Yelu Renxian, Yelu Liang, Xiao Hanjianu, Xiao De, Xiao Weixin, Xiao Leyinnu, Yelu Dilie, Yao Jingxing, Yelu Asi · 5 passages

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耶律良蕭韓家奴蕭德蕭惟信蕭樂音奴耶律敵烈姚景行耶律阿思 Yelu Liang, Xiao Hanjianu, Xiao De, Xiao Weixin, Xiao Leyinnu, Yelu Dilie, Yao Jingxing, and Yelu Asi

姚景行，始名景禧。 Yao Jingxing — his original name was Jingxi.

及景行既貴，始出籍，貫興中縣。 When Jingxing had risen high, he was first removed from the household register and his domicile was entered as Xingzhong County.

景行博學。 Jingxing was broadly learned.

帝有意伐宋，召景行問曰：「宋人好生邊事，如何？」 The emperor intended to attack Song and summoned Jingxing to ask, "The Song are fond of provoking border affairs — what do you advise?"

History of Liao, Chapter 97Volume 97 Biographies 27: Yelu Wotela, Hai Li, Dou Jingyong, Yelu Yinji, Yang Ji, Zhao Hui, Wang Guan, Yelu Xisun · 1 passage

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九年，聞重元亂，與姚景行勤王，上嘉之。 In the ninth year, on hearing of Chongyuan's rebellion, he marched with Yao Jingxing to aid the throne, and the emperor commended him.