Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and Diplomat

Fu Qi 傅岐

Fù Qí

Attested AD 535 - AD 549

Passages: 18
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Fu Qi was an official and Diplomat.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Jingping	景平	Jǐngpíng

Life and dates

Death

At his house 宅 · Context after breaking out when palace city fell
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passage 113

Attested activity

AD 535 to AD 546 大同中
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 42, passage 86
AD 549 太清三年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 42, passages 104-105, 113
AD 548 太清二年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 42, passages 90, 94
AD 547 太清元年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 42, passage 87

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Fu Hui (傅翽)
father 父 · paternal line
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passages 66, 69
Child of Mother of Fu Qi (傅岐母)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passage 71

Career and standing

commandant of the central army 中領軍
AD 549 太清三年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passage 104
magistrate of Jiankang 建康令
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passage 83
Marquis of Nanfeng 南豊縣侯
Offered · Fief Households 500 · Negated true
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passage 112
Dismissed
Dismissal · Reason official matter
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passage 83

Places and affiliations

Polity Liang 梁 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passages 86-87
At Lingzhou in Beidi 北地靈州
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passage 66
At Jiankang 建康 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passage 83

Learning and skills

Skill repartee 占對 · Level skilled
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passage 85

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passages 78, 94-99, 109

Events and relationships

Opposed peace with Gao Cheng warning of Hou Jing trap
AD 548 太清二年 · Political · Counselor
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passages 94-99
Opposed sending Prince of Xuancheng as hostage; Dakuan sent instead
AD 549 太清三年 · Political · Counselor
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passages 106-107
Received Wei envoys
AD 535 to AD 546 大同中 · Diplomatic · Envoy receiver
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passage 86
Secured confession without torture and allowed prisoner festival leave
Legal · Magistrate
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passages 74-76, 79
Relation Colleague of · Person Zhu Yi (朱异)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passage 88
Relation Opponent of · Person Zhu Yi (朱异)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passages 94, 100

Assessments and attributes

Assessment skilled in planning; discerned false peace · Mode named-speaker Speaker Yao Cha (姚察)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 42, passage 115

References in the histories

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History

18 passages

Book of Liang, Chapter 42Volume 42: Zang Dun; Zang Jue; Fu Qi · 18 passages

臧盾弟厥傅岐 Zang Dun; his younger brother Jue; Fu Qi

傅岐字景平，北地靈州人也。 Fu Qi, styled Jingping, came from Lingzhou in Beidi.

岐初爲國子明經生，起家南康王宏常侍，遷行參軍，兼尚書金部郎。 Qi first was a classics fellow in the National University, then began as attendant to Prince Hong of Nankang, rose to traveling aide, and concurrently gentleman in the treasury bureau of gold.

是時改創北郊壇，初起岐監知繕築，事畢，除如新令。 At that time the northern suburban altar was being rebuilt; Qi was first put in charge of construction, and when the work was finished he was appointed magistrate of Ruxin.

岐卽命脫械，以和言問之，便卽首服。 Qi at once ordered the shackles removed and questioned him gently; the man confessed on the spot.

法當償死，會冬節至，岐乃放其還家，使過節一日復獄。 By law he should pay with his life, but the winter solstice was near; Qi sent him home to pass the festival and return to prison after one day.

岐曰：「其若負信，縣令當坐，主者勿憂。」 Qi said, "If he breaks faith, the magistrate will bear the penalty—you need not worry."

岐後去縣，民無老小，皆出境拜送，啼號之聲，聞於數十里。 Later, when Qi left the county, young and old alike went beyond the border to bow him farewell; the sound of weeping carried for dozens of li.

岐美容止，博涉能占對。 Qi had a fine bearing, read widely, and was skilled in repartee.

大同中，與魏和親，其使歲中再至，常遣岐接對焉。 In Great Unity, when Liang and Wei made peace, Wei envoys came twice a year; Qi was often sent to receive them.

岐獨曰：「高澄旣新得志，其勢非弱，何事須和？ Qi alone said, "Gao Cheng has newly secured his aims; his power is not weak—why should he need peace?

岐固執宣城嫡嗣之重，不宜許，遣石城公大款送之。 Qi held firm to the weight of Xuancheng's legitimate heir and said he ought not be granted; the Duke of Stone City, Dakuan, was sent instead.

岐獨言於衆曰：「賊舉兵爲逆，未遂求和，夷情獸心，必不可信，此和終爲賊所詐也。」 Qi alone said to the assembly, "The bandit raised troops in rebellion and has not yet obtained peace; barbarian hearts and beast natures cannot be trusted—this peace will in the end be the bandit's deceit."

及景背盟，莫不嘆服。 When Jing broke the oath, none failed to admire Qi.

尋有詔，以岐勤勞，封南豊縣侯，邑五百戶，固辭不受。 Soon an edict, for Qi's diligence, enfeoffed him as Marquis of Nanfeng with a fief of five hundred households; he firmly refused and did not accept.

宮城失守，岐帶疾出圍，卒於宅。 When the palace city fell, Qi, though ill, broke out of the encirclement and died at his house.

傅岐識齊氏之偽和，可謂善於謀事。 Fu Qi's discernment of the false peace offered by Qi may be called true skill in planning affairs.

是時若納岐之議，太清禍亂，固其不作。 Had the court then accepted Qi's counsel, the Supreme Purity calamity would surely not have come to be.