Qin and Han · King of Nanyue

Yingqi 嬰齊

Attested c. BC 135 - BC 113

Passages: 11
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Yingqi was a king of Nanyue.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	King Ming	明王

Life and dates

Death

Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 113, passage 59

Attested activity

BC 135 to BC 122 入宿衛長安時
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 113, passages 45, 55
BC 122 to BC 113 即位後至元鼎前
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 113, passages 54, 59
c. BC 135 漢兵臨境，嬰齊入朝
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 113, passage 140

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Spouse of Jiu clan consort (樛氏女)
consort/queen 姬/后
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 113, passages 55-56
Parent of Jiande (建德)
eldest son 長男
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 113, passage 100
Child of Zhao Hu (趙胡)
father 父
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 113, passage 45
Parent of Zhao Xing (趙興)
father 父
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 113, passage 55
Parent of Zhao Cigong (趙次公)
father 父
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 113, passage 58
Spouse of Yue wife of King Ming (越妻子)
wife 妻子
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 113, passage 100

Key source chapters

Career and standing

posthumous title King Ming 謚為明王
Bestowed
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 113, passage 59
Claimed
Illness feigned to avoid court
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 113, passage 57

Places and affiliations

c. BC 135 嬰齊入朝
At Han court 朝 · Relation Traveled to
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 113, passage 140
At Chang'an 長安 · Relation Served as hostage guard
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 113, passage 55

Events and relationships

Hid imperial seal
Political · Ruler
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 113, passage 54
Presented at court
c. BC 135 漢兵臨境，嬰齊入朝 · Diplomatic · Envoy prince
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 113, passage 140
Relationship · Type father · Target King of Nanyue (南越王)
Directly stated · Book of Han 74, passage 107

References in the histories

Search passages

History

11 passages

Book of Han, Chapter 74Volume 64a: Yan, Zhu, Wuqiu, Zhufu, Xu, Yan, Zhong, Wang, and Jia 1 · 1 passage

有狗馬之病，不能勝服，故遣太子嬰齊入侍； Illness keeps him from the journey, so he sends his heir Yingqi to wait on the throne in his stead;

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 113Treatise on the Nanyue · 10 passages

遣太子嬰齊入宿衛。 He dispatched his crown prince, Yingqi, to serve in the palace guard at the Han capital.

後十餘歲，胡實病甚，太子嬰齊請歸。 More than ten years later, Hu genuinely fell gravely ill. Crown Prince Yingqi asked permission to return home.

嬰齊代立，即藏其先武帝璽。 When Yingqi took the throne, he immediately hid away the imperial seal that had belonged to the earlier Martial Emperor.

嬰齊其入宿衛在長安時，取邯鄲樛氏女，生子興。 While serving in the palace guard at Chang'an, Yingqi had taken a woman of the Jiu clan from Handan as his consort and fathered a son named Xing.

漢數使使者風諭嬰齊，嬰齊尚樂擅殺生自恣，懼入見要用漢法，比內諸侯，固稱病，遂不入見。 The Han court repeatedly sent envoys to urge Yingqi to present himself at court. But Yingqi relished the power to pass life-and-death judgments at will and to indulge himself as he pleased. He feared that appearing at court would mean submitting to Han law and being treated as an inner feudal lord. He stubbornly pleaded illness and never went.

嬰齊薨，謚為明王。 When Yingqi died, he was given the posthumous title of King Ming, the Brilliant King.

太后自未為嬰齊姬時，嘗與霸陵人安國少季通。 Even before the Queen Dowager had become Yingqi's consort, she had carried on an affair with a man named An Guoshaoji from Baling.

及嬰齊薨後，元鼎四年，漢使安國少季往諭王、王太后以入朝，比內諸侯； After Yingqi's death, in the fourth year of the Yuanding era, the Han court dispatched An Guoshaoji to persuade the king and the Queen Dowager to present themselves at court and accept the status of inner feudal lords.

遣人告蒼梧秦王及其諸郡縣，立明王長男越妻子術陽侯建德為王。 He sent word to the King of Cangwu and to all the commanderies and counties, and installed as the new king Jiande, the Marquis of Shuyang, who was King Ming's eldest son by a Yue wife.

漢兵臨境，嬰齊入朝。 When Han forces arrived at the border, Yingqi presented himself at court.