Five Dynasties · Official

An Chonghui 安重誨

Died AD 933

Passages
92
Chapters
18
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify An Chonghui as a military officer, official, and statesman. This record brings together 92 passages from 18 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal An Chonghui 安重誨 An Chonghui
Surname An 安 An
Surname An 安 Ān
Personal name An Chonghui 安重誨 An Chonghui
Personal An Chonghui 安重誨
Personal An Chonghui 安重誨 Ān Zhònghuì
Personal name An Chonghui 重誨 Chonghui
Personal name An Chonghui 安重誨 Ān Chónghuì
Given Chonghui 重誨 Chonghui
Personal name Chonghui 重誨 Chonghui
Given Chonghui 重誨 Zhònghuì
Given name Chonghui 重誨 Chonghui
Title Lord An 安公 Ān gōng
Title Lord An 令公 Lìnggōng
Title Lord An the Chief Councilor 安令公 Ān Lìnggōng

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Military Officer
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

Family

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  • Parent of An Chongzan (安崇讚)
    Kinship Term: son / 男 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  • Parent of An Chongxu (安崇緒)
    Kinship Term: son / 男 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  • Spouse of A Zhang (阿張)
    Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife · Relationship State: active · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
  • Child of An Fuqian (安福遷)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Spouse of Wife of An Chonghui
    Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband
  • Sibling of Younger Brother of An Chonghui
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Shared Parentage: full
  • Kinship Role: sons · Count: 2 · Note: held Huai and Meng
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0018
  • Kinship Role: remaining kin · Count Known: false · Quantity: unknown · Legal Outcome: not prosecuted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0086

Origins and identity

  • Statement: descended from northern tribal great chiefs / 其先本北部豪長
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0001

Career and standing

  • Label: chief minister holding power / 秉事權
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:051:s0154
  • Label: Central Gate commissioner / 中門使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 933
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0004
  • Label: Privy Council commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明宗踐祚 · Western Year: AD 926
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0007
  • Label: senior general of the Left Army Guard / 左領軍衛大將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明宗踐祚後 · Western Year: AD 926
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0007
  • Label: Inspector Grand Master; concurrent Secretariat Director; Hezhong military commissioner / 檢校太師、兼中書令、河中節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0012
  • Label: Bureau Military Affairs commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: held
    Explicit · xinwudaishi:007:s0028
  • Label: Middle-gate commissioner / 中門使 · Action: held
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:096:s0191
  • Label: privy commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: held
    Explicit · xinwudaishi:007:s0111
  • Title: Duke of Yi / 沂國公 · Action: advanced · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0012
  • Status: retirement · Action: ordered to retire as Grand Tutor of the Heir Apparent · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0076
  • Action: stripped · Statement: All offices and titles were stripped by edict. · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0086
  • Status: clan-exterminated · Action: suffered · Label: clan wiped out / 殞身赤族
    Explicit · xinwudaishi:007:s0105

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: ambition exceeded talent; clung to power and was ruined · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0062, jiuwudaishi:066:s0164
  • Assessment: manipulated state power; engineered probe against Last Emperor · Provenance: Mode: contemporary-opinion
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:074:s0149
  • Assessment: narrow foresight but ill-conceived plotting against the Prince of Lu · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · xinwudaishi:007:s0105
  • Item: household goods under several thousand strings / 家財不及數千緡 · Relation: possessed
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0062
  • Item: jade belt worth a thousand strings / 玉帶 · Relation: bestowed · Other Person Id: Xu Zhigao (徐知誥)
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0016

Source notes

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 37Volume 37 Book of Later Tang 13: Mingzong Annals 3 · 1 passage
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 40Volume 40 Book of Later Tang 16: Mingzong Annals 6 · 1 passage
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 7 passages
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 51Volume 51 Book of Later Tang 27: Biographies 3: Imperial Family · 5 passages
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 54Volume 54 Book of Later Tang 30: Biographies 6: Wang Rong, Wang Zhaohui, Wang Chuzhi · 3 passages
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 62Volume 62 Book of Later Tang 38: Biographies 14: Meng Fangli, Zhang Wenli, Dong Zhang · 5 passages
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 65Volume 65 Book of Later Tang 41: Biographies 17: Li Jianji, Shi Junli, Gao Xinggui, Zhang Tingyu, Wang Sitong, Suo Zitong · 1 passage
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 66Volume 66 Book of Later Tang 42: Biographies 8: an Zhonghui, Zhu Hongzhao, Zhu Hongshi, Kang Yicheng, Yao Yanchou, Song Lingxun · 45 passages
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《五代史闕文》：明宗令翟光鄴、李從璋誅重誨於河中私第，從璋奮楇擊重誨於地，重誨曰：「某死無恨，但恨不與官家誅得潞王，他日必為朝廷之患。」 (The 《Lost Texts of the History of the Five Dynasties》: Mingzong ordered Zhai Guangye and Li Congzhang to kill Chonghui at his Hedong mansion; Congzhang felled him with a mace; Chonghui said, "I die without regret—only that I did not help the Emperor kill the Prince of Lu; he will plague the court hereafter."
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 70Volume 70 Book of Later Tang 46: Biographies 22: Yuan Xingqin, Xia Luqi, Yao Hong, Li Yan, Li Renju, Kang Sili, Zhang Jingda · 3 passages
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 71Volume 71 Book of Later Tang 47: Biographies 23: Ma Yu, Si Kongting, Cao Tingyin, Xiao Xifu, Yao Zongzhi, Jia Fu, Ma Gao, Luo Guan, Chun Yuyan, Zhang Ge, Xu Ji, Zhou Xuanbao · 3 passages
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 73Volume 73 Book of Later Tang 49: Biographies 25: Mao Zhang, Nie Yu, Wen Tao, Duan Ning, Kong Qian, Li Ye · 1 passage
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 74Volume 74 Book of Later Tang 50: Biographies 126: Kang Yanxiao, Zhu Shouyin, Yang Li, Dou Tingwan, Zhang Qianzhao, Yang Yanwen · 2 passages
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 96Volume 96 Book of Later Jin 22: Biographies 11: Kong Chongbi, Chen Baoji, Wang Yu, Zhang Jizuo, Zhen Ruan, Hu Rao, Liu Suiqing, Fang Gao, Meng Chenghui, Liu Jixun, Zheng Shouyi, Cheng Xun, Li Yu, Zheng Xuansu, Ma Zhongji, Chen Xuan · 1 passage
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 121Volume 121 Book of Later Zhou 23: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 130Volume 130 Book of Later Zhou 32: Biographies 10: Wang Jun, Murong Yanchao, Yan Honglu, Cui Zhoudu · 1 passage
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 141Volume 141: Treatises 3 Five Elements · 1 passage
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 7Volume 7 Later Tang Annals 4: Deposed Emperors · 6 passages
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 26Volume 26 Later Tang Biographies 6: Fu Xi, Wu Zhen, Kong Qian, Zhang Yanlang, Li Yan, Li Renju, Mao Zhang · 5 passages
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