Xie Jin (mandarin)

Xie Jinyin (December 6, 1369 - February 22, 1415), courtesy name Da Shen (大绅), or Jin Shen (缙绅), titled with Chunyu (春雨), Xi Yi (喜易), a native of Jishui County, Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province (present-day Jishui County, Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province), and ancestry of Daizhou County, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province (present-day Dai County, Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province), was a literary scholar Nei Ge Shou Fu (Chief Minister of the Cabinet, 内阁首辅, during the early Ming Dynasty.

In the twenty-first year of Hongwu (1388), Xie Jin became “Jin Shi” (Palace Graduate, 进士). In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu (1391), Xie Jin was removed from office and returned to his hometown to further his studies. During the Jianwen period, he was banished to Hezhou. At the beginning of the Yongle period, he and Huang Huai, Yang Shiqi, Hu Guang, Jin Youzi, Yang Rong, Hu Yan became director of WenYuan Ge (Wenyuan Chamber, 文渊阁), and Xie Jin was ordered to be the president of the "Taizu Shilu" ("Veritable Records of Taizu"), compilation and repair of the "Yongle Da Dian" (“Yongle Encyclopedia”, 《永乐大典》). In the fifth year of Yongle (1407), because of getting involved in Crown-related issues, Xie Jin was demoted to right Counselor of the “Guangxi Bu Zheng Shi You Can Yi” (Chief Secretary of Guangxi, 广西布政司右参议) In, In later In change In to In the In Jiaozhi In, became the Governor of Huazhou. In the ninth year of the Yongle period (1411), he was arrested and imprisoned for "failing to observe the rites of a subject. ”

On the thirteenth day of the first month of the thirteenth year of the Yongle era (February 22, 1415), Xie Jin was drunk with wine by Ji Gang and buried in the snow to death at the age of forty-seven. In September of the first year of the Hongguang era of the Southern Ming Dynasty (1645), Xie Jin was awarded the title of Minister of Rites (Libu Shilang), and given the posthumous title of "Wen Yi" (文毅). Provided by Wikipedia