Jing Cha (景姹) | 24 Histories

Overview

Jing Cha was a Palace Woman.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 926 同光四年正月乙酉
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 25
AD 923 to AD 926 莊宗時
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 43

Key source chapters

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 34 Volume 34 Book of Later Tang 10: Zhuangzong Annals 8 1 passage
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 43 Volume 43 Miscellaneous Biographies 23: Shi Shucong, Li Yanwei, Li Zhen, Pei Di, Wei Zhen, Kong Xun, Sun Dezhao, Wang Jingrao, Jiang Yin 1 passage

Career and standing

former Tang palace woman 故唐內人
Held
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 43
palace woman 內人
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 25

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Tang 後唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 25
At Longxing Temple north 龍興寺北 · Relation Testified about burial at
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 43

Works and attributed material

Memorial · Author · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 25
Testimony · Speaker · Paraphrased · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Jing Cha (景姹)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 43

Events and relationships

Asked reburial of Tang clansmen
AD 923 to AD 926 莊宗時 · Ritual · Petitioner
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 43
Requested reburial of imperial kin
AD 926 同光四年正月乙酉 · Ritual · Petitioner
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passages 25-26

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 34, passage 25; New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 43

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 34Volume 34 Book of Later Tang 10: Zhuangzong Annals 8 · 1 passage

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乙酉，內人景姹上言：「昭宗遇難之時，皇屬千餘人同時遇害，為三穴瘞於宮城西古龍興寺北，請改葬。」 On yiyou, the palace woman Jing Cha submitted a report: "When Emperor Zhaozong met his end, more than a thousand members of the imperial clan were killed at the same time and buried in three pits north of the old Longxing Temple, west of the palace city. I request that they be reburied."

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 43Volume 43 Miscellaneous Biographies 23: Shi Shucong, Li Yanwei, Li Zhen, Pei Di, Wei Zhen, Kong Xun, Sun Dezhao, Wang Jingrao, Jiang Yin · 1 passage

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莊宗時，得故唐內人景姹，言當彥威等弒昭宗時，諸王宗屬數百人皆遇害，而同為一坑，瘞於龍興寺北，請合為一冢而改葬之。 Under Zhuangzong a former Tang inner woman, Jing Cha, testified that when Yanwei and the others killed Zhaozong several hundred imperial clansmen died in one pit north of Longxing Temple. She begged a common tomb and a proper reburial.