Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Courtier and Rebel

Yuan Jin 元瑾

Yuán Jǐn

Attested AD 547 - AD 549

Passages: 6
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Yuan Jin was a Courtier and Rebel.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 547 元僅…作亂
Dated from the passage context · Book of Wei 91, passages 200, 203
AD 547 to AD 549 元瑾之謀
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 47, passage 85
AD 547 瑾謀殺高澄
Strongly inferred · Book of Wei 91, passages 247, 249

Key source chapters

Career and standing

retainer at Wenxiang's residence 文襄館客
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 247

Places and affiliations

Polity Eastern Wei 東魏 · Relation Active in
Strongly inferred · Book of Wei 91, passages 247, 249

Works and attributed material

Everyone ought to congratulate 諸人當賀
Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Mode named-source-report
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 247
Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 200

Events and relationships

Plotted to assassinate
Assassination plot · Conspirator · With Gao Cheng (高澄)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 249
Rose in revolt
Rebellion · Rebel · Related Person Ids Liu Siyi (劉思逸), Xun Ji (荀濟)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 203
Relation Retainer of · Person Gao Cheng (高澄)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 247
Relation Retainer of · Person Prince Wenxiang of Qi (齊文襄王)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 200

Assessments and attributes

Assessment narrative of the congratulatory remark is obscure; text may be missing after Wenxiang · Mode commentator-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 247

Source notes

Weishu writes 元僅; commentator and parallel histories write 元瑾.
Field given-name · Mode commentator-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passages 248-249
Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 200

References in the histories

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 47Volume 47 Biographies 39: Cruel Officials · 1 passage

及文襄疑黃門郎溫子昇知元瑾之謀，繫之獄而餓之，食敝襦而死。 When Gao Cheng suspected Wen Zisheng of Yuan Jin's plot, he bound and starved him—he ate his ragged coat and died.

Book of Wei, Chapter 91Volume 85: Men of Letters: Yuan Yue, Pei Jingxian, Lu Guan, Feng Su, Xing Cang, Pei Bomao, Xing Xin · 5 passages

文襄館客元僅曰：「諸人當賀。」 Yuan Jin, a retainer at Wenxiang's residence, said, "Everyone ought to congratulate."

及元僅、劉思逸、荀濟等作亂，文襄疑子昇知其謀。 When Yuan Jin, Liu Siyi, Xun Ji, and the others rose in revolt, Prince Wenxiang suspected that Zisheng had known of their conspiracy.

文襄館客元僅曰諸人當賀按何事當賀，敍述不明，疑「文襄」下有脫文。 "Yuan Jin, a retainer at Wenxiang's residence, said, 'Everyone ought to congratulate'"—Commentary: what there was to celebrate is nowhere made clear; the account is muddled. Text may be missing after "Wenxiang."

又「元僅」當作「元瑾」。 Moreover, "Yuan Jin" written with the character jin (merely) should read "Yuan Jin" written with the character jin (gem).

瑾謀殺高澄，事見本書卷一二孝靜紀末、卷一四華山王鷙附子大器傳，北史卷六齊文襄紀，北齊書卷四七宋遊道傳，都作「瑾」。 Jin conspired to assassinate Gao Cheng; the episode appears in this book, volume 12 (end of the annals of Emperor Xiaojing), volume 14 (biography of Prince Huashan Zhi, with the attached biography of his son Daqi), Northern History, volume 6 (annals of Prince Wenxiang of Qi), and Northern Qi History, volume 47 (biography of Song Youdao)—all of which write the name with the character "jin" meaning gem.