Yingren (郢人) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yingren as an administrator and official. This record brings together 5 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yingren	郢人	Yingren
Title	magistrate of Feiru	肥如令	Féirú Lìng
Title	Magistrate of Feiru	肥如令
Personal name	Yingren	郢人	Yǐngrén

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · hanshu:044:s0284, shiji:051:s0062

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: executed · Agent Person Id: Dingguo (定國) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元朔元年 · Western Year: BC 128
Explicit · shiji:051:s0062
Date Text: beaten to death on Dingguo order · Unresolved: true
Explicit · hanshu:044:s0285

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 元朔元年 · Western Year: BC 128
Explicit event contextual date · shiji:051:s0062, shiji:051:s0063

Family

Kinship Role: brothers · Count: 2 · Note: 昆弟 who submitted the memorial (count not specified; recorded as plural minimum 2)
Explicit · shiji:051:s0063

Career and standing

Magistrate of Feiru / 肥如令
Explicit · hanshu:044:s0284

Places and affiliations

Place: Feiru / 肥如 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · shiji:051:s0062

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 44Volume 35: Princes of Jing, Yan and Wu · 3 passages

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定國有所欲誅殺臣肥如令郢人，郢人等告定國。 Dingguo wished to execute his minister Yingren, the magistrate of Feiru. Yingren and others reported Dingguo.

定國使謁者以它法劾捕格殺郢人滅口。 Dingguo sent an usher to impeach and arrest Yingren on another charge and beat him to death to silence him.

至元朔中，郢人昆弟復上書具言定國事。 In the Yuanshuo era, Yingren's brothers again submitted a memorial detailing Dingguo's crimes.

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 51Houses of Jing and Yan · 2 passages

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定國有所欲誅殺臣肥如令郢人，郢人等告定國，定國使謁者以他法劾捕格殺郢人以滅口。 Dingguo wished to have an official killed—Yingren, the magistrate of Feiru. When Yingren and others reported Dingguo's crimes, Dingguo had the court usher bring trumped-up charges against them, arresting and killing Yingren to silence him.

至元朔元年，郢人昆弟復上書具言定國陰事，以此發覺。 In the first year of the Yuanshuo era, the brothers of the man from Ying submitted another memorial laying out all of Dingguo's secret crimes, and the matter was at last brought to light.