Jin Midi

Jin Midi (kneeling) with his mother (seated). Wu Liang shrine, Jiaxiang, Shandong province, China. 2nd century AD. Ink rubbings of stone-carved reliefs as represented in Feng Yunpeng and Feng Yunyuan, Jinshi suo (金石索, 1821 edition).[1]

Jin Midi (134 – 29 September 86 BC[2]) (Chinese: 金日磾; pinyin: Jīn Mìdī,[3] courtesy name Wengshu (翁叔), formally Marquess Jing of Du (秺敬侯), was a Xiongnu Xiutu prince and a general of the Western Han dynasty. He was referred to as a non-Han "barbarian", either with the term Hu (胡)[4] or Yidi (夷狄).[5] He was originally from the Xiutu Kingdom in central Gansu and served as co-regent early in the reign of the Emperor Zhao of Han. He was given the family name "Jin" ("Gold") by Emperor Wu of Han because he worshipped the golden statue of the Xiongnu which Huo Qubing has captured in his military campaigns.[6] [7]

  1. ^ Yang, Liu (2001). "Origins of Daoist Iconography". Ars Orientalis. 31: 40–41. ISSN 0571-1371. JSTOR 4629579.
  2. ^ bing'zi day of the 9th month of the 1st year of the Shi'yuan era, per vol.23 of Zizhi Tongjian
  3. ^ Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed. (September 2016). 现代汉语词典（第7版） [A Dictionary of Current Chinese] (7th ed.). Beijing: Commercial Press. p. 278. ISBN 978-7-100-12450-8. 䃅（磾） dī 用于人名，金日(mì)䃅，汉代人。
  4. ^ 貴戚多竊怨，曰：「陛下妄得一胡兒，反貴重之！」上聞，愈厚焉。in Ford, Randolph B. (23 April 2020). Rome, China, and the Barbarians: Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires. Cambridge University Press. p. 124, note 96. ISBN 978-1-108-59660-2.
  5. ^ Ban Gu also uses the terms 夷狄 yidi to describe Jin Midi: 金日磾夷狄亡国 "The nation of the barbarian Jin Midi was destroyed" in Ford, Randolph B. (23 April 2020). Rome, China, and the Barbarians: Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires. Cambridge University Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-108-59660-2.
  6. ^ Dubs, Homer H. (1937). "The "Golden Man" of Former Han Times". T'oung Pao. 33 (1): 6. JSTOR 4527117.
  7. ^ "本以休屠作金人為祭天主，故因賜姓金氏云。" (HS 68:23b9) in "《漢書》（前漢書）:霍光金日磾傳第三十八 數位經典". www.chineseclassic.com.