Qin and Han · Official

Wang Linqing 王林卿

Attested BC 7 - BC 1

Passages: 14
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Linqing was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 7 to BC 1 成帝太后為言哀帝
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 88, passages 255, 270-271

Origins and identity

邛成太后外家王氏
Related Person Id Empress Dowager of Qiongcheng (邛成太后)
Directly stated · Book of Han 88, passage 255

Career and standing

Gentleman Attendant
侍中
Directly stated · Book of Han 88, passage 255

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History

14 passages

Book of Han, Chapter 88Volume 77: Gai, Zhuge, Liu, Zheng, Sun, Wujiang and He · 14 passages

初，邛成太后外家王氏貴，而侍中王林卿通輕俠，傾京師。 Wang Linqing of the empress's clan ran with swordsmen and owned the city.

並恐其犯法，自造門上謁，謂林卿曰：「塚間單外，君宜以時歸。」 Bing feared that he would violate the law, so he personally went to his gate and said to Linqing, "The area around the tomb is isolated and exposed; you should return at the proper time."

林卿曰：「諾。」 "Very well," said Wang Linqing.

先是，林卿殺婢婿埋塚捨，併具知之，以非己時，又見其新免。 He knew Wang had buried a body at the tomb but held his peace while Wang was newly disgraced.

故不發舉，欲無令留界中而已，即且遣吏奉謁傳送。 He nudged Wang out of the county with polite escorts instead of an arrest.

林卿素驕，慚於賓客，並度其為變，儲兵馬以待之。 He guessed Wang's pride would spark violence and readied troops.

林卿既去，北度涇橋，令騎奴還至寺門，拔刀剝其建鼓。 Wang's slave peeled the county drum at the gate as a taunt.

併自從吏兵追林卿。 He Bing led the chase himself.

行數十里，林卿迫窘，及令奴冠其冠被其襜褕自代，乘車從童騎，身變服從間徑馳去。 Wang dressed a slave as himself and slipped away in disguise.

會日暮追及，收縛冠奴，奴曰：「我非侍中，奴耳。」 At dusk they caught up, seized and bound the capped slave; the slave said, "I am not the gentleman attendant—I am only a slave."

併自知已失林卿，乃曰：「王君困，自稱奴，得脫死邪？」 Bing knew he had already lost Linqing and said, "Lord Wang, pressed tight, calls himself a slave—can that escape death?"

「故侍中王林卿坐殺人埋塚捨，使奴剝寺門鼓。」 "Former Attendant Wang Linqing was convicted of killing a man and burying him in the tomb keeper's hut, and of ordering a slave to strip the drum at the temple gate."

林卿因亡命，眾庶讙譁，以為實死。 Wang fled; rumor mistook the slave's head for his own.

成帝太后以邛成太后愛林卿故，聞之涕泣，為言哀帝。 Chengdi's mother wept to Ai for Wang Linqing.