Xing Zhen 邢貞

According to the account of Cheng Yu in the Biographies of Cheng, Guo, Dong, Liu, Jiang and Liu in Records of Wei 14, Cheng Yu was hard and fierce by nature and often at odds with others. When the state of Wei was established, Cheng Yu became Minister of the Guards, but he was dismissed after quarreling over ceremonial precedence with the Capital Commandant Xing Zhen. Cheng Yu became Minister of the Guards again after Emperor Wen took the throne. Records, Wei 14 §20

According to the Annals of Emperor Wen in Records of Wei 2, in the autumn, in the 8th month of the 2nd year of Huangchu (221), Sun Quan sent an envoy to present a memorial and also sent back Yu Jin and others. On the day dingsi, Cao Pi sent the Minister of Ceremonies Xing Zhen bearing the imperial tally to appoint Sun Quan General-in-Chief, enfeoff him as King of Wu and grant him the Nine Bestowments. Records, Wei 2 §21 · 27

The Biography of the Lord of Wu in Records of Wu 2 says that after Emperor Wen of Wei took the throne, Sun Quan sent envoys declaring himself a vassal and sent back Yu Jin and others, and it includes the edict of the 11th month. The edict, enfeoffing Sun Quan as King of Wu, said that it sent Xing Zhen, Envoy Bearing the Tally, Minister of Ceremonies and Marquis of Gaoping, to give him the seal and ribbon, the patent of appointment, Gold Tiger Tallies Nos. 1 to 5 and the left halves of the Bamboo Envoy Tallies Nos. 1 to 10, and made him, as General-in-Chief bearing the tally, supervise Jiao Province and concurrently handle the affairs of Governor of Jing Province. It then had him return the seal and ribbon, tally and patent of his former posts of General of Agile Cavalry and Marquis of Nanchang, and granted him the Nine Bestowments. Records, Wu 2 §32–33 · 35–36

According to the account of Zhang Zhao in the Biographies of Zhang, Gu, Zhuge and Bu in Records of Wu 7, in the 2nd year of Huangchu of Wei the envoy Xing Zhen was sent to appoint Sun Quan King of Wu, and Xing Zhen passed through the gate without getting down from his carriage. When Zhang Zhao said to Xing Zhen that the law is carried out without exception precisely because the rites admit no disrespect, and asked whether he dared to exalt himself because he thought Jiangnan was small and weak and had not even an inch of blade, Xing Zhen at once hastily got down from his carriage. Records, Wu 7 §7–8

According to the account of Xu Sheng in the Biographies of Cheng, Huang, Han, Jiang, Zhou, Chen, Dong, Gan, Ling, Xu, Pan and Ding in Records of Wu 10, when Sun Quan went out to the Duting pavilion to receive Xing Zhen, Xing Zhen showed an arrogant manner. Zhang Zhao was already angry, and Xu Sheng too, indignant, turned to his colleagues and said that they had failed to exert themselves and risk their lives to annex Xu and Luo and swallow Ba and Shu for the state, and had made their lord enter into a covenant with Xing Zhen, and asked whether this was not a disgrace, with tears streaming down his face. Hearing this, Xing Zhen told his party that since the generals and ministers of Jiangdong were like this, they were not men who would long remain beneath others. Records, Wu 10 §84

The Biography of the Lord of Wu records that in the same year Sun Quan sent the Chief Commandant Zhao Zi as envoy to Wei, and that the Wei emperor asked what kind of sovereign the King of Wu was. Chen Shou's main text does not record Xing Zhen's courtesy name, place of origin or death. Records, Wu 2 §39Records, Wei 14 §20Records, Wei 2 §27Records, Wu 7 §7–8Records, Wu 10 §84