An Lushan (安祿山) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify An Lushan as a general, military officer, rebel, and warlord. This record brings together 16 passages from 12 chapters across 5 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	An Lushan	安祿山	Ān Lùshān
Personal	An	安	An
Surname	An	安	An
Personal name	An Lushan	安祿山	Ān Lùshān
Personal	An Lushan	安祿山	An Lushan
Personal name	An Lushan	安祿山	An Lushan
Given	Lushan	祿山	Lushan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0168, jiuwudaishi:145:s0054, liaoshi:085:s0116, xintangshu:022:s0086, xintangshu:051:s0130, xintangshu:055:s0117, xintangshu:172:s0127
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:138:s0009, songshi:359:s0031, xintangshu:121:s0220, xintangshu:141:s0011, xintangshu:161:s0106

Roles

General
Military Officer
Rebel
Warlord

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 唐安祿山來攻 · Western Year: AD 755
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:085:s0116
Source Date: Text: 天寶 · Western Interval: Start: AD 742 · End: AD 755
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:055:s0114, xintangshu:055:s0117
Source Date: Text: 天寶 · Western Interval: Start: AD 742 · End: AD 756
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:138:s0009, jiuwudaishi:138:s0011
Source Date: Text: 安、史之亂 · Western Interval: Start: AD 755 · End: AD 763
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:145:s0054, jiuwudaishi:145:s0113
Source Date: Text: 安祿山之亂 · Western Year: AD 755
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:138:s0009
Source Date: Text: 安祿山亂 · Western Interval: Start: AD 755 · End: AD 763
Explicit · xintangshu:172:s0127
Source Date: Text: 安祿山反 · Western Interval: Start: AD 755 · End: AD 756
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:161:s0106
Source Date: Text: 安祿山反 · Western Interval: Start: AD 755 · End: AD 757
Explicit · xintangshu:121:s0220
Source Date: Text: 安祿山反 · Western Year: AD 755
Explicit · xintangshu:051:s0130
Source Date: Text: 明年，安祿山反 · Western Year: AD 755
Explicit · xintangshu:022:s0086
Source Date: Text: 破安、史而復兩京 · Western Year: AD 757
Explicit · songshi:359:s0031
Source Date: Text: 署京兆 · Western Year: AD 756
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:141:s0011
Source Date: Text: 至德 · Western Interval: Start: AD 755 · End: AD 757
Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0168

Career and standing

Label: Youzhou-Pinglu Military Commissioner / 幽州平盧節度使 · Action: held
Explicit · xintangshu:055:s0117
Status: rebel · Action: became
Explicit · xintangshu:022:s0086

Places and affiliations

Polity: Tang / 唐 · Relation: rebelled-against
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:145:s0054
Polity: Tang / 唐 · Relation: rebelled-against
Explicit · xintangshu:022:s0086, xintangshu:051:s0130
Polity: Tang / 唐 · Relation: served
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:055:s0117
Place: Youzhou-Pinglu / 幽州平盧 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · xintangshu:055:s0117

Events and relationships

Kind: rebellion · Role: leader · Action: an-shi-rebellion · Other Person Id: Shi Siming (史思明)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:145:s0054, jiuwudaishi:145:s0113
Kind: military · Role: rebel · Action: rebelled · Place: Tang capital region
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:138:s0009
Kind: military · Role: rebel-leader · Action: rebelled
Explicit · xintangshu:022:s0086, xintangshu:051:s0130
Kind: military · Role: rebel-leader · Action: seized-two-capitals
Strongly inferred · xintangshu:022:s0096

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · xintangshu:051:s0130, xintangshu:055:s0117, xintangshu:172:s0127
Statement: Combined commissioner stipends not less than one million cash monthly
Explicit · xintangshu:055:s0117

References in the histories

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 130Volume 126 Biographies 76: Li Kui, Li Han, Chen Shaoyou, Lu Yue, Pei Xu · 1 passage

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是時，安祿山盜陷二京，東都收復，遷太子司議郎。 When An Lushan seized the two capitals and the eastern capital was later recovered, Xu was appointed gentleman for deliberation of the heir apparent.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 138Volume 138: Foreign States Biographies 2: Tubo, Huihu, Goryeo, Bohai Tungusic Tribes, Heishui Tungusic Tribes, Silla, Tangut, Kunming Tribes, Yutian, Champa, Zangkeman · 2 passages

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安祿山之亂，肅宗在靈武，悉召河西戍卒收復兩京，吐蕃乘虛取河西、隴右，華人百萬皆陷於吐蕃。 When An Lushan rose in rebellion and Emperor Suzong was at Lingwu, he called up every soldier garrisoned in Hexi to retake the two capitals. Tubo seized the moment, overran Hexi and Longyou, and more than a million Chinese subjects were lost to Tubo rule.

唐天寶中，安祿山犯闕，有助國討賊之功，累朝尚主，自號「天驕」，大爲唐朝之患。 During the Tianbao years, when An Lushan stormed the capital, they aided the Tang in suppressing the rebellion. Dynasty after dynasty bestowed imperial princesses upon them. They called themselves "Heaven's Pride" and became one of the Tang's gravest threats.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 145Volume 145: Treatises 7 Music 2 · 2 passages

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唐太宗復古道，乃用祖孝孫、張文收考正雅樂，而旋宮八十四調復見於時，在懸之器，方無啞者，安、史之亂，京都為墟，器之與工，十不存一，所用歌奏，漸多紕繆。 Emperor Taizong of Tang restored the ancient tradition and had Zu Xiaosun and Zhang Wenshou revise the court music, so that the eighty-four circulatory modes reappeared and no instrument in the bell-chime ensemble remained mute. The An and Shi rebellion left the capital in ruins; scarcely one instrument or craftsman in ten survived, and the music performed grew ever more corrupt.

自安、史亂離，鹹秦蕩覆。 After the An and Shi rebellion, the heartland was laid waste.

History of Liao, Chapter 85Volume 85 Biographies 15: Xiao Talin, Xiao Guanyinnu, Yelu Tizi, Yelu Xieli, Yelu Nugua, Xiao Liu, Gao Xun, Xi Heshuonu, Xiao Taliege, Yelu Sahe · 1 passage

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唐安祿山來攻，只魯戰於黑山之陽，敗之。 When An Lushan of Tang attacked, Zhilu met him on the southern slope of Black Mountain and defeated his force.

History of Song, Chapter 359Volume 359 Biographies 118: Li Gang 2 · 1 passage

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肅宗先保靈武，故能破安、史而復兩京。 Emperor Suzong first secured Lingwu, and only then was able to defeat An Lushan and Shi Siming and recover the two capitals.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 22Volume 22 Treatises 12: Rites and Music 12 · 1 passage

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明年，安祿山反，涼州、伊州、甘州皆陷吐蕃。 The following year An Lushan rose; Liangzhou, Yizhou, and Ganzhou were lost to Tibet.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 51Volume 51 Treatises 47: Finance and Economics 1 · 1 passage

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及安祿山反，司空楊國忠以為正庫物不可以給士，遣侍御史崔眾至太原納錢度僧尼道士，旬日得百萬緡而已。 When An Lushan rebelled, Yang Guozhong, finding the regular treasury inadequate for troops, sent Censor Cui Zhong to Taiyuan to sell ordinations—and raised only a million strings in ten days.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 55Volume 55 Treatises 51: Finance and Economics 4 · 1 passage

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幽州平盧節度使安祿山、隴右節度使哥舒翰兼使所給，亦不下百萬。 An Lushan of Pinglu and Geshu Han of Longyou likewise drew no less than one million cash monthly from their combined commissioner appointments.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 121Volume 121 Biographies 46: Liu, Zhong, Cui, and the Two Kings · 1 passage

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安祿山反，謀誅楊國忠闕下，不克，至馬嵬，卒誅之。 When An Lushan rebelled he tried to kill Yang Guozhong at the gate and failed; at Mawei he finally killed him.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 141Volume 141 Biographies 66: Cui, Deng, Wei, Wei, Li Han, Lu, Gao · 2 passages

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因偽使其子東見祿山，而祿山先署張休為京兆尹，由是追休，授光遠故官。 He therefore pretended to send his son east to see An Lushan, but Lushan had already appointed Zhang Xiu governor of Jingzhao; Xiu was recalled for this, and Guangyuan was given his former post.

孝哲馳白祿山，光遠懼，與長安令蘇震出開遠門，使人奔呼曰：「尹巡門！」 Xiaozhe galloped to report to Lushan. Guangyuan was afraid; he went with Chang'an magistrate Su Zhen out through Kaiyuan Gate and had men run ahead shouting, "The governor is inspecting the gate!"

New Book of Tang, Chapter 161Volume 161 Biographies 86: Zhang, Zhao, Li, Zheng, Xu, Wang, Feng, Yu · 2 passages

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安祿山反，縣民孫俊驅市人以應，戶率眾擊殺之。 When An Lushan rebelled, a county man Sun Jun drove townspeople to respond; Hu led the people and killed him.

祖光烈，與弟光先不受安祿山偽官，遁去。 His grandfather Guanglie and Guangxian his younger brother refused offices under An Lushan's rebel regime and fled.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 172Volume 172 Biographies 97: Yu, Wang, Two Du's, Fan · 1 passage

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安祿山亂，逃去，賊索之急，宋州刺史李岑以兵迎之，為追騎所害。 When the An Lushan rebellion broke out he fled; the rebels hunted him fiercely; Li Cen, prefect of Songzhou, marched out to receive him, but pursuing riders cut him down.