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{{Short description|Chinese historian, poet and official (died 282)}}
{{family name hatnote|[[Xue]]|lang=Chinese}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Xue Ying
| native_name = 薛瑩
| image = 
| image_size = 
| caption = 
| alt = 
| office = Regular Mounted Attendant (散騎常侍)
| term_start = {{Start date|280}}
| term_end = {{End date|282}}
| monarch = [[Emperor Wu of Jin]]
| office1 = Minister of the Household (光祿勳)
| term_start1 = ?
| term_end1 = {{End date|280}}
| monarch1 = [[Sun Hao]]
| office2 = Left State Historian (左國史)
| term_start2 = ?
| term_end2 = ?
| monarch2 = [[Sun Hao]]
| office3 = Commandant of the Left District of Wuchang (武昌左部督)
| term_start3 = 273 or before
| term_end3 = ?
| monarch3 = [[Sun Hao]]
| office4 = Junior Tutor of the Crown Prince (太子少傅)
| term_start4 = {{Start date|269}}
| term_end4 = ?
| monarch4 = [[Sun Hao]]
| office5 = Master of Writing in the Selection Bureau (選曹尚書)
| term_start5 = 264?
| term_end5 = ?
| monarch5 = [[Sun Hao]]
| office6 = Left Upholder of the Law (左執法)
| term_start6 = 264?
| term_end6 = ?
| monarch6 = [[Sun Hao]]
| birth_date = Unknown
| death_date = 282
| father = [[Xue Zong]]
| children = Xue Jian
| relations = [[Xue Xu]] (brother)
| occupation = Historian, poet, politician
| blank1 = [[Courtesy name]]
| data1 = Daoyan (道言)
}}

'''Xue Ying''' (died 282<ref>While Xue Ying's birth year was not recorded, his father Xue Zong died in 243. Thus, Xue Ying's birth year should be in or before 243.</ref>), [[courtesy name]] '''Daoyan''', was a Chinese historian, poet, and politician of the state of [[Eastern Wu]] during the [[Three Kingdoms]] period (220–280) of China. After the [[Conquest of Wu by Jin|fall of Wu]], he continued serving under the [[Jin dynasty (266–420)]]. His [[Ancestral home (Chinese)|ancestral home]] was in Zhuyi County (竹邑縣), [[Pei Commandery]] (沛郡), which is around present-day [[Suzhou, Anhui]]. He was the second son of [[Xue Zong]], a notable official and scholar of Eastern Wu.

==Service under Wu==
===Service under Sun Xiu===
After [[Sun Xiu]] ascended the throne, he appointed [[Yu Si]], He Shao, Wang Fan and Xue Ying as Central Regular Mounted Attendants (散騎中常侍).<ref>(孙休即位，与贺邵、薛莹、虞汜俱为散骑中常侍...) ''Sanguozhi'' vol. 65. This account was found in Wang Fan's biography and thus his name was not mentioned.</ref> After a few years, Xue Ying resigned his positions due to illness.<ref>(数年，以病去官。) ''Sanguozhi'', vol.53</ref>

===Service under Sun Hao===
Early in Sun Hao's reign, he assigned Xue Ying as Left Upholder of the Law (左執法). After an unknown period of time, Xue Ying's position was changed to Master of Writing in the Selection Bureau (選曹尚書). After [[Sun Hao]] instated his son Sun Jin as crown prince in February or March 269, Xue Ying was made Junior Tutor of the Crown Prince (太子少傅), a position he held in addition to Master of Writing in the Selection Bureau.<ref>(孙皓初，为左执法，迁选曹尚书，及立太子，又领少傅。) ''Sanguozhi'', vol.53</ref><ref>According to Sun Hao's biography in ''Sanguozhi'', he ascended the throne on the same day as Sun Xiu's death, which is the ''guiwei'' day of the 7th month of the 7th year of the'' Yongan'' era of Sun Xiu's reign. This corresponds to 3 September 264 in the Gregorian calendar. Also in his biography, it was recorded that Sun Jin was made crown prince in the 1st month of the 1st year of the ''Jianheng'' era of his reign. (建衡元年春正月，立子瑾为太子...) ''Sanguozhi'', vol.48. This corresponds to 19 Feb to 19 Mar 269 on the Julian calendar.</ref>

When Sun Hao surrendered to the Jin army in 280, Xue Ying helped Sun Hao to draft the surrender documents.<ref>(天纪四年，督军征皓，皓奉书司马由、王浑、王浚请降，其文，莹所造也。) ''Sanguozhi'', vol.53</ref>

==Service under Jin==
After Sun Hao's surrender, Xue Ying went to Luoyang. In an audience with Sima Yan (Emperor Wu), the emperor calmly asked Xue Ying, "Why did Sun Hao lose his kingdom?" Xue Ying replied, "When ruling Wu, Sun Hao was close to ''xiaoren'' and added punishments indiscriminately. He had no trusted officials or generals and everyone lived in fear. That is how he lost his kingdom." Sima Yan then continued asking about the abilities of the Wu officials who survived the invasion; Xue Ying was able to answer truthfully.<ref>(武帝从容问莹曰：“孙皓之所以亡者何也？”莹对曰：“归命侯臣皓之君吴也，昵近小人，刑罚妄加，大臣大将，无所亲信，人人忧恐，各不自保，危亡之衅，实由于此。”帝遂问吴士存亡者之贤愚，莹各以状对.) ''Jin Ji'' (by [[Gan Bao]]) annotation in ''Sanguozhi'', vol.53</ref>

==See also==
* [[Lists of people of the Three Kingdoms]]

==References==
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* [[Chen Shou|Chen, Shou]] (3rd century). ''[[Records of the Three Kingdoms]]'' (''Sanguozhi'').
* [[Pei Songzhi|Pei, Songzhi]] (5th century). ''[[Annotations to Records of the Three Kingdoms]]'' (''Sanguozhi zhu'').

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