Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Qi Ying (748 August 15, 795), formally Baron Zhong of Hejian, was an official of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Dezong. Qi Ying was born in 748, during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong. His family was from Ying Prefecture, in modern Baoding, Hebei and claimed ancestry from the Spring and Autumn Period state Qi''s ruling Jiang house. His father Qi Pi might have served as an acting official in the imperial government, but there is no historical record as to his grandfather or more distant ancestors. He had at least two older brothers, Qi Zh o and Qi Wen, and two younger brothers, Qi Hao and Qi Zhao, who served as officials, and one younger brother, Qi Xi, who did not. Qi Ying passed the imperial examinations with the highest score, and he further passed two special imperial examinations on depth of knowledge and magnificent style, and thereafter was made an officer at Henan Municipality (i.e., the region of the eastern capital Luoyang).