Sui and Tang · Official and Courtier

Miao Jinqing 苗晉卿

c. AD 685 - AD 765

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60
Chapters
6
Histories
2

Overview

Miao Jinqing was an official and Courtier.

IdentityHistorical · Male

Other names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Courtesy name Yuanfu 元輔 Yuanfu
Posthumous name Wen-zhen 文貞 Wénzhēn

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Key source chapters

  1. New Book of Tang, Chapter 140 Volume 140 Biographies 65: Cui Miao, Two Pei's, Lu 28 passages
  2. Old Book of Tang, Chapter 117 Volume 113 Biographies 63: Miao Jingqing, Pei Mian, Pei Zunqing 27 passages
  3. Old Book of Tang, Chapter 130 Volume 126 Biographies 76: Li Kui, Li Han, Chen Shaoyou, Lu Yue, Pei Xu 2 passages
  4. Old Book of Tang, Chapter 112 Volume 108 Biographies 58: Wei Jiansu, Cui Yuan, Cui Huan, Du Hongjian 1 passage
  5. New Book of Tang, Chapter 150 Volume 150 Biographies 75: Li, Chang, Zhao, Cui, Qi, Lu 1 passage

Origins and identity

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Later references and commemoration

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60 passages

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 112Volume 108 Biographies 58: Wei Jiansu, Cui Yuan, Cui Huan, Du Hongjian · 1 passage
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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 117Volume 113 Biographies 63: Miao Jingqing, Pei Mian, Pei Zunqing · 27 passages
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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 130Volume 126 Biographies 76: Li Kui, Li Han, Chen Shaoyou, Lu Yue, Pei Xu · 2 passages
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New Book of Tang, Chapter 140Volume 140 Biographies 65: Cui Miao, Two Pei's, Lu · 28 passages
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安祿山反，竇廷芝棄陜郡不守，楊國忠本忌其有望，即奏「東道賊沖，非大臣不可鎮遏」，授陜郡太守、陜虢防禦使，晉卿見帝，以老辭，忤旨，聽致仕於家。 When An Lushan rebelled, Dou Tingzhi abandoned Shaan commandery without defending it; Yang Guozhong, who had long resented Jinqing's standing with the people, immediately memorialized that "the eastern route is where the rebels will strike—only a great minister can hold them back," and appointed him prefect of Shaan commandery and defense commissioner of Shan-Guo; when Jinqing saw the emperor he pleaded old age and declined, contravened the imperial will, and was permitted to retire at home.
玄宗崩，肅宗疾甚，詔晉卿攝冢宰，固讓曰：「大行遺詔，皇帝三日聽政，稽祖宗故事，則無冢宰之文，奉遺詔則宜聽朝。 When Emperor Xuanzong died and Emperor Suzong was gravely ill, an edict appointed Jinqing acting chief minister (zhongzai); he firmly declined, saying: "The late emperor's testamentary edict states that the emperor shall hold court after three days; consulting ancestral precedent, there is no provision for a chief minister; following the testamentary edict, he should attend court.
永泰初薨，年八十一，贈太師，京兆少尹護喪，謚曰懿獻，元載未顯時，為晉卿所遇，載方相，故諷有司改謚文貞。 In the beginning of the Yongtai era he died at age eighty-one; he was posthumously made grand preceptor, with the vice governor of Jingzhao overseeing his funeral; his posthumous title was Yi Xian; when Yuan Zai was still obscure he had been favored by Jinqing, and when Yuan Zai became chancellor he prompted the office to change the posthumous title to Wen Zhen.
始，肅宗廟惟苗晉卿配享，冕卒後二十餘年，有蘇正元者奏言：「肅宗為元帥時，師才一旅，冕於草創中，甄大義以勸進，收募驍勇幾十餘萬。 At first only Miao Jinqing received joint sacrifice in Emperor Suzong's temple; more than twenty years after Mian's death a man named Su Zhengyuan memorialized: "When Emperor Suzong was commander-in-chief his forces numbered but a single brigade; amid the founding struggle Mian discerned the great principle of urging him to take the throne and raised nearly a hundred thousand fierce warriors.
New Book of Tang, Chapter 150Volume 150 Biographies 75: Li, Chang, Zhao, Cui, Qi, Lu · 1 passage
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New Book of Tang, Chapter 194Volume 194 Biographies 119: Outstanding Conduct · 1 passage
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