Ying Qu 應璩

His elder brother Ying Chang was a man of Runan. When Cao Pi became General of the Household of the Five Offices, Cao Pi and Cao Zhi, Marquis of Pingyuan, both loved literature, and Ying Chang, together with Wang Can and others, was treated by them as a close friend. Ying Chang was summoned by Cao Cao to be a clerk on the Chancellor's staff, was transferred to Cadet to the Marquis of Pingyuan, and later became Literary Scholar to the General of the Household of the Five Offices. Records, Wei 21 §9 · 19

Chen Shou attached Ying Qu after Ying Chang, recording that Ying Chang's younger brother Ying Qu and Ying Qu's son Ying Zhen both won renown for their literary writing. Ying Qu rose to the office of Palace Attendant, and in the Xianxi era Ying Zhen served as Army Adviser to the Chancellor of State. Records, Wei 21 §25–26

When Liu Fu's son Liu Jing, after serving as Master of Writing, went out to become Intendant of Henan, the Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary Ying Qu sent him a letter. The letter said that Liu Jing had served at court as the emperor's spokesman and then gone out to take charge of the capital; that he had raised the fences high and steep to put an end to any thought of breaking in and stealing, had the five grains planted separately to keep them far from the disasters of flood and fire, and that widowers, widows, orphans and the childless elderly received relief from the opened granaries. It concluded that even the government of Zhao and Zhang and the three Wangs of old fell short of comparison with this. Chen Shou recorded that Liu Jing's government was generally of this kind. Records, Wei 15 §8–10

Zhu Jianping was a man skilled in the art of physiognomy. When Cao Pi was General of the Household of the Five Offices, more than thirty guests were gathered at his table, and Cao Pi asked Zhu Jianping about his own lifespan and had him read the faces of all the guests. Zhu Jianping told Ying Qu that at sixty-two he would rise to the post of changbo (Palace Attendant) but would face a misfortune, and that a year before it he alone would see a white dog that those beside him could not see. Records, Wei 29 §38–39

At sixty-one Ying Qu became Palace Attendant, and while on duty in the palace he suddenly saw a white dog. He asked the others, but no one had seen it. Ying Qu then often gathered people together, hurried out into the countryside to make excursions and sightsee, and held feasts for his own pleasure. He died at sixty-three, a year past the appointed time. Chen Shou recorded that everything Zhu Jianping foretold came about as he said, but he did not record the year of Ying Qu's death. Records, Wei 29 §43–44

In his assessment at the end of volume 21, Chen Shou said only that Wang Can and five others were the most renowned, and he did not assess Ying Qu separately. Records, Wei 21 §99