Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Scholar and Official

Yin Jun 殷鈞

c. AD 484 - AD 532

Passages: 13
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yin Jun was a scholar and Official.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Jihe	季和	Jihe
Posthumous name	Zhenzi	貞子	Zhenzi

Life and dates

Death

AD 532 中大通四年
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 212

Age

49
AD 532 中大通四年
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 212

Attested activity

AD 532 中大通四年
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 212
AD 502 天監初
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 187
AD 502 to AD 557 梁名臣（姚察評）
Strongly inferred · Book of Liang 27, passage 256

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Descendant of Yin Rong (殷融)
eighth-generation descendant 八世孫 · paternal line · 8 generations
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 178
Child of Yin Rui (殷叡)
father 父
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 179
Child of Daughter of Wang Huan (王奐女)
mother 母
Strongly inferred · Book of Liang 27, passages 179-180
Child of Mother of Yin Jun (殷鈞母)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 200
Parent of Yin Gou (殷構)
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 214
Parent of Yin Wo (殷渥)
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 214
Spouse of Princess of Yongxing (永興公主)
wife 妻
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 186

Kinship Role sons · Count 2
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 214

Career and standing

Commandant of the Horse Guards for the Imperial Son-in-Law 駙馬都尉
AD 502 天監初 · Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 187

Places and affiliations

Liang 梁
Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 256
At Changping in Chen commandery 陳郡長平
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 177

Learning and skills

Skill clerical script 隸書 · Level standard-model
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 185

Works and attributed material

Letter · Author · With Crown Prince Zhaoming (昭明太子)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passages 204-208

Events and relationships

Governed from bed
Administrative · Administrator · At Linchuan 臨川
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 196

Assessments and attributes

Assessment listed among famous ministers · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Yao Cha (姚察)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 256
Assessment quiet, plain, tranquil, and harmonious · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Yao Cha (姚察)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 256
frail body, many illnesses
Physical description
Directly stated · Book of Liang 27, passage 196

References in the histories

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History

13 passages

Book of Liang, Chapter 27Volume 27: Lu Chui; Dao Qia; Ming Shanbin; Yin Jun · 13 passages

陸倕到洽明山賓殷鈞陸襄 Lu Chui; Dao Qia; Ming Shanbin; Yin Jun; and Lu Xiang

殷鈞字季和，陳郡長平人也。 Yin Jun, styled Jihe, came from Changping in Chen commandery.

鈞時年九歲，以孝聞。 Jun was then nine years old and became known for filial piety.

高祖與叡少舊故，以女妻鈞，卽永興公主也。 The emperor and Rui had been old friends from youth; he gave his daughter in marriage to Jun—she was the Princess of Yongxing.

鈞在職，啓校定秘閣四部書，更爲目錄。 While in office Jun memorialized to collate and fix the four categories of books in the secret archive and compile a new catalogue.

東宮置學士，復以鈞爲之。 When the Eastern Palace appointed scholars, Jun was again chosen.

鈞體羸多疾，閉閤臥治，而百姓化其德，劫盜皆奔出境。 Jun's body was frail and he suffered many illnesses; he shut his doors and governed from bed, yet the common people were transformed by his virtue and bandits all fled beyond the borders.

劫帥稽顙乞改過，鈞便命遣之，後遂爲善人。 The bandit chief knocked his forehead to the ground begging to reform his faults; Jun then ordered him released, and afterward he became a good man.

郡舊多山瘧，更暑必動，自鈞在任，郡境無復瘧疾。 The commandery had long suffered much mountain malaria; whenever the season turned hot it would flare up, but from the time Jun held office there was no more malaria within the commandery borders.

鈞答曰：「奉賜手令，並繆道臻宣旨，伏讀感咽，肝心塗地。 Jun replied, "I have received your handwritten order and Miu Daozhen's announcement of your intent; bowing, I read it and am choked with feeling, my liver and heart laid upon the ground.

昭明太子薨，官屬罷，又領右遊擊，除國子祭酒，常侍如故。 When Crown Prince Zhaoming passed away the official staff was dismissed; Jun again concurrently served as right mobile strike general, was appointed libationer of the Imperial University, and retained his regular attendant post as before.

諡曰貞子。 His posthumous title was Zhenzi, "The Upright."

陳吏部尚書姚察曰：陸倕博涉文理，到洽匪躬貞勁，明山賓儒雅篤實，殷鈞靜素恬和，陸襄淳深孝性，雖任遇有異，皆列於名臣矣。 Yao Cha, director of the Ministry of Personnel of Chen, said: Lu Chui broadly penetrated literary principles; Dao Qia with his whole person was upright and firm; Ming Shanbin was elegant in Confucian learning and sincere and solid; Yin Jun was quiet, plain, tranquil, and harmonious; Lu Xiang was pure, deep, and filial in nature—though their appointments differed, all were listed among famous ministers.