Zhao Yingqi

Zhao Yingqi (Chinese: 趙ちょう嬰齊ひとし; pinyin: Zhào Yīngqí; Jyutping: Zīu⁶ Ying¹cei⁴; Vietnamese: Triệu Anh Tề, ? – 115 BC) was the son of Zhao Mo and the third ruler of the kingdom of Nanyue. His rule began in 122 BC and ended with his death in 115 BC.

Zhao Yingqi 趙ちょう嬰齊
King of Nanyue
Reign	122–115 BC
Predecessor	Zhao Mo
Successor	Zhao Xing
Died	115 BC
Names Chinese: 趙ちょう嬰齊ひとし; pinyin: Zhào Yīngqí; Vietnamese: Triệu Anh Tề; Posthumous name Chinese: 趙ちょう明あきら王おう; pinyin: Zhào Míng Wáng; Vietnamese: Triệu Minh Vương
Dynasty	Nanyue

After the Western Han dynasty aided Nanyue in fending off an invasion by Minyue, Zhao Mo sent his son Yingqi to the Western Han court, where he joined the emperor's guard (宿衛しゅくえい, Sù wèi). Zhao Yingqi married an ethnic Han woman from the Jiu (樛) family of Handan, who gave birth to his second son, Zhao Xing.

Zhao Yingqi behaved without any scruples and committed murder on several occasions. When his father died in 122 BC, he refused to visit the Han emperor to ask for his leave as he feared that he would be arrested and punished for his behavior. Yingqi died in 115 BC and was succeeded by his second son, Zhao Xing (under the regency of his mother), rather than the eldest, Zhao Jiande. Zhao Xing was eventually overthrown and killed by Han forces.

See also

• Triệu dynasty
• Nanyue
• Zhao Mo
• Zhao Xing
• Zhao Jiande
• Panyu District
• Lü Jia (Nanyue)
• Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King
• Baiyue

Bibliography

• Amies, Alex; Ban, Gu (2020). Hanshu Volume 95 The Southwest Peoples, Two Yues, and Chaoxian: Translation with Commentary. Gutenberg Self Publishing Press. ISBN 978-0-9833348-7-3.
• Taylor, Jay (1983), The Birth of the Vietnamese, University of California Press
• Watson, Burton (1993), Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian: Han Dynasty II (Revised Edition, Columbia University Press

Primary sources

• Shiji, vol. 113.
• Book of Han, vol. 95.
• Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, vol.2 (Kỳ Triệu)