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Ji Bin 吉翂

Jí Bīn

Died AD 502 to AD 519

Passages: 15
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Ji Bin was an official.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Yan Xiao	彥霄	Yàn Xiāo

Life and dates

Death

AD 502 to AD 519 天監
Cause Trembling illness (悸疾) from father's ordeal
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 123

Attested activity

AD 502 to AD 519 天監初
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 47, passages 84, 88, 112, 123

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Birth mother of Ji Bin (吉翂所生母)
birth mother 所生母
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 83
Child of Father of Ji Bin (吉翂父)
father 父
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 84

Kinship Role younger-brothers · 諸弟稚藐; Bin is eldest · Count 0
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 97

Career and standing

province chief clerk 本州主簿
Appointed · Age 17
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 118
chief clerk under Liu Yue 主簿
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 120
acting magistrate supervising Wannian 監萬年縣
Held
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 119
commended by Court of Imperial Sacrifices 太常旌舉
Granted
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 122

Places and affiliations

Polity Liang 梁 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 88
At Lianzhao in Fengyi 馮翊蓮勺
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 80
At Xiangyang 襄陽 · Relation Lived in
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 81

Learning and skills

Skill Changes and Laozi 《易》、《老》 · Level clear mastery
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 121

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · refuses lighter bonds · Mode quotation
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 110
Speech · Speaker · With Cai Fadu (蔡法度) · Mode quotation
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passages 96-100, 104-107
Speech · Speaker · With Wang Zhi (王志) · Mode quotation
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passages 114-116

Events and relationships

Refused lighter shackles
Legal · Prisoner
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passages 108-111
Refused Wang Zhi nomination
Political · Refusee · With Wang Zhi (王志)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 117
Struck petition drum to die for father
Legal · Petitioner · With Father of Ji Bin (吉翂父) · Age 15
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passages 85, 87

Assessments and attributes

developed trembling illness after father's condemnation
Illness
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 123

References in the histories

Search passages

History

15 passages

Book of Liang, Chapter 47Volume 47: Filial Acts · 15 passages

吉翂字彥霄，馮翊蓮勺人也。 Ji Bin, styled Yan Xiao, was from Lianzhao in Fengyi.

翂幼有孝性。 From childhood Bin was filial.

翂年十五，號泣衢路，祈請公卿，行人見者，皆爲隕涕。 Bin at fifteen wailed in the streets, pleading with high officials; every passerby wept.

翂乃撾登聞鼓，乞代父命。 Bin then struck the petition drum and begged to die for his father.

高祖異之，敕廷尉卿蔡法度曰：「吉翂請死贖父，義誠可嘉； Gaozu was moved and ordered Minister of Justice Cai Fadu: "Ji Bin asks to die for his father—his loyalty is admirable;

法度受敕還寺，盛陳徽纏，備列官司，厲色問翂曰：「爾求代父死，敕已相許，便應伏法。 Fadu took the order, returned to court, spread out chains and fetters, lined up the officials, and sternly asked Bin: "You ask to die for your father—the edict already grants it; you should submit to execution.

翂對曰：「囚雖蒙弱，豈不知死可畏憚？ Bin answered: "Though I am weak, do I not know death is fearful?

法度知翂至心有在，不可屈撓，乃更和顏誘語之曰：「主上知尊侯無罪，行當釋亮。 Fadu saw Bin's heart could not be broken; he softened and said, "The throne knows your father is innocent and will free him soon.

翂對曰：「凡鯤鮞螻蟻，尚惜其生； Bin answered, "Even minnows and ants cling to life;

翂初見囚，獄掾依法備加桎梏； When Bin entered prison the clerks, by statute, fitted him with every bond;

翂弗聽，曰：「翂求代父死，死罪之囚，唯宜增益，豈可減乎？」 Bin refused: "I seek to die for my father—a man under death sentence should wear more, not less?"

翂曰：「異哉王尹，何量翂之薄乎！ Bin said, "Strange, Magistrate Wang—how little you think of Bin!

若翂有靦面目，當其此舉，則是因父買名，一何甚辱！」 Had I any shame left after this, it would mean buying a name at my father's cost—how vile!"

後鄉人裴儉、丹陽尹丞臧盾、揚州中正張仄連名薦翂，以爲孝行純至，明通《易》、《老》。 Later Pei Jian of his town, Zang Dun of Dan'yang, and Zhang Ze, Yangzhou rectifier, jointly praised Bin's pure filiality and clear grasp of the Changes and Laozi.

初，翂以父陷罪，因成悸疾，後因發而卒。 From his father's ordeal he had taken a trembling sickness; later he died when it broke out.