Asi (阿思) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Asi as an administrator, aristocrat, family member, and military officer. This record brings together 30 passages from 13 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Asi	阿思	Āsī
Title	administrator of Northern Court privy affairs	知北院樞密使事
Given	Asi	阿思
Given	Asi	阿思	Āsī
Given name	Asi	阿思	Āsī
Personal	Asi	阿思
Personal name	Asi	阿思
Title	Commissioner of Military Affairs	樞密使
Title	Northern Court privy commissioner	北院樞密使
Title	Prince of Qishui Commandery	漆水郡王
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yēlǜ
Surname	Yelü	耶律
Surname	Yelü	耶律	Yēlǜ
Surname	Yelü	耶律	Yelü
Personal name	Yelu Asi	耶律阿思	Yēlǜ Āsī
Personal name	Yelu Asi	耶律阿思	Yelu Asi
Personal	Yelü Asi	耶律阿思	Yelü Āsī
Personal	Yelü Asi	耶律阿思	Yēlǜ Āsī
Personal	Yelü Asi	耶律阿思	Yelü Asi
Personal name	Yelü Asi	耶律阿思
Personal name	Yelü Asi	耶律阿思	Yēlǜ Āsī
Personal	Yelü Asi	耶律阿思

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:023:s0124, liaoshi:090:s0056, liaoshi:096:s0004, liaoshi:096:s0193, liaoshi:098:s0001, liaoshi:111:s0002
Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:024:s0108, liaoshi:024:s0191, liaoshi:025:s0062, liaoshi:026:s0031, liaoshi:027:s0017, liaoshi:092:s0086, liaoshi:095:s0087, liaoshi:100:s0105, liaoshi:101:s0010

Roles

Administrator
Aristocrat
Family Member
Military Officer
Named Individual
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Age: 80
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0231
Explicit · liaoshi:090:s0077

Age

Age: 80 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0231

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 大康元年 (son's biography note at father's death) · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1075
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:092:s0085, liaoshi:092:s0086
Source Date: Text: 乾統元年 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1101
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:100:s0105
Source Date: Text: 乾統元年六月 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1101
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:027:s0017
Source Date: Text: 二年六月戊申 · Reign Id: liao-daan · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1086
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:024:s0191
Source Date: Text: 大康三年二月甲申 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1077
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:023:s0124
Source Date: Text: 大康九年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 1083
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:090:s0065
Source Date: Text: 清寧九年 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 1063
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0224
Source Date: Text: 大安初 · Reign Id: liao-daan · Western Year: AD 1085
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0225
Source Date: Text: 大康中 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Western Interval: Start: AD 1075 · End: AD 1084
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0087, liaoshi:095:s0086
Source Date: Text: 乾統間 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1110
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:111:s0092
Source Date: Text: 清寧初 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Western Year: AD 1055
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0222
Source Date: Text: AD 1101 · Western Year: AD 1101
Explicit · liaoshi:098:s0119
Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 1083
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:024:s0108
Source Date: Text: 咸雍五年 · Western Year: AD 1069
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:101:s0009, liaoshi:101:s0010
Source Date: Text: 四年十月 · Western Year: AD 1088
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:025:s0062
Source Date: Text: 壽隆元年 · Western Year: AD 1095
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0226
Source Date: Text: 壽隆元年十二月 · Western Year: AD 1095
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:026:s0031
Source Date: Text: 大康中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1075 · End: AD 1084
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:090:s0056, liaoshi:090:s0055
Source Date: Text: 灤河之變 · Western Year: AD 1063
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0193

Family

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Child of Yelu Dumei (耶律獨攧)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Sibling of Yelü Yixin (耶律乙辛)
Kinship Term: younger brother by the same mother / 同母弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger
Kinship Term: younger brother by the same mother / 同母弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother
Child of Yela (叠剌)
Parentage: biological
Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father
Child of Mother of Yelü Yixin (耶律乙辛之母)
Parentage: biological
Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother

Career and standing

Label: administrator of Northern Court great king affairs / 知北院大王事 · Action: appointed-concurrent
Explicit · liaoshi:024:s0191
Label: Khitan mobile palace deployment director / 契丹行宮都部署 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:024:s0108
Label: Northern Court privy commissioner / 北院樞密使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:026:s0031
Label: Privy Commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:090:s0063
Label: Northern Court privy commissioner / 北院樞密使 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾統元年 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1101
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0105
Label: Khitan mobile palace deployment director / 契丹行宮都部署 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:024:s0191
Label: Northern Court privy commissioner / 北院樞密使 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0017
Label: Privy Commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0092
Office: 北院樞密使 / Northern Chancellery Privy Commissioner · Western Year: AD 1101 · Source Date: Text: Daozong final illness
Explicit · liaoshi:098:s0119
Title: Prince of Qishui Commandery / 漆水郡王 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四年冬十月己丑 · Western Year: AD 1088
Explicit · liaoshi:025:s0062
Title: yuyue / 於越 · Action: promoted
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0017
Status: hereditary-selection-northern-southern-privy
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0124

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:024:s0191, liaoshi:026:s0031, liaoshi:090:s0001, liaoshi:092:s0086, liaoshi:095:s0087, liaoshi:096:s0004, liaoshi:096:s0193, liaoshi:100:s0105, liaoshi:101:s0010
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:111:s0092

Works and attributed material

Work: separate biography / 有傳 · Relation: subject-of
Explicit · liaoshi:092:s0086
Kind: memorial · Role: author
Explicit · liaoshi:090:s0065

Events and relationships

Kind: corruption · Role: bribe-taker · Action: accepted bribes and released many offenders
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0106
Kind: political · Role: obstructor · Action: blocked-advancement · Other Person Id: Xiao Taosuwan (蕭陶蘇斡)
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0011
Kind: regency-trust · Action: Jointly received the final imperial command with Yelu Yan.
Explicit · liaoshi:098:s0119
Kind: military · Role: killer · Action: killed · Other Person Id: Nielugu (涅魯古) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 灤河之變 · Western Year: AD 1063
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0193
Relation: co-actor-with · Person Id: Xiao De (蕭德)
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0193
Relation: resented · Person Id: Xiao Taosuwan (蕭陶蘇斡)
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0010
Relation: co-conspirator-with · Person Id: Xiao Ahudai (蕭阿忽帶)
Explicit · liaoshi:090:s0069

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: contributed force to the suppression of the rebels by killing Nielugu · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0193

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0017

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 23Volume 23 Annals 23: Daozong 3 · 1 passage

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甲申，詔北院樞密使魏王耶律乙辛同母兄大奴、同母弟阿思世預北、南院樞密之選，其異母諸弟世預夷離堇之選。 On jiashen day an edict ordered Northern Court privy commissioner Prince of Wei Yelü Yixin's elder brother by the same mother Danu and younger brother by the same mother Asi to be hereditary in selection for Northern and Southern Court privy commissioner; his younger brothers by different mothers were hereditary in selection for yilibi.

History of Liao, Chapter 24Volume 24 Annals 24: Daozong 4 · 2 passages

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甲子，以耶律阿思為契丹行宮都部署，耶律慎思北院樞密副使。 On jiazi day Yelü Asi was made Khitan mobile palace deployment director; Yelü Shensi Northern Court associate privy commissioner.

戊申，以契丹行宮都部署耶律阿思兼知北院大王事。 On wushen day Khitan mobile palace deployment director Yelü Asi was also made administrator of Northern Court great king affairs.

History of Liao, Chapter 25Volume 25 Annals 25: Daozong 5 · 1 passage

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己丑，知北院樞密使事耶律阿思封漆水郡王。 On jichou day Yelü Asi, who administered Northern Court privy affairs, was enfeoffed Prince of Qishui Commandery.

History of Liao, Chapter 26Volume 26 Annals 26: Daozong 6 · 1 passage

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十二月癸亥朔，以知北院樞密使事耶律阿思為北院樞密使。 On the guihai new moon of the twelfth month, because he administered Northern Court privy affairs Yelü Asi was made Northern Court privy commissioner.

History of Liao, Chapter 27Volume 27 Annals 27: Emperor Tianzuo 1 · 1 passage

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丁未，北院樞密使耶律阿思加於越。 On dingwei day Northern Court privy commissioner Yelü Asi was promoted yuyue.

History of Liao, Chapter 90Volume 90 Biographies 20: Xiao Ala, Yelu Yixian, Xiao Taowei, Xiao Talage, Yelu Dilu · 10 passages

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上嘗謂群臣曰：「北樞密院軍國重任，久闕其人，耶律阿思、蕭斡特剌二人孰愈？」 The emperor once asked the ministers, "The Northern Privy Council carries the weight of army and realm, yet the post has stood empty; between Yelü Asi and Xiao Wotela, which man is superior?"

阿思有才而貪，將為禍基。 Asi has ability but is greedy; he will be the seed of calamity.

然竟以阿思為樞密使。 Yet in the end Asi was appointed Privy Commissioner.

由是阿思銜之。 From then on Asi resented him.

九年，西圉不寧，阿思奏曰：「邊隅事大，可擇重臣鎮撫。」 In the ninth year, when the western border was troubled, Asi memorialized, "The frontier is grave business; send a senior minister to steady it."

阿思曰：「誠如聖旨。」 Asi replied, "Precisely as Your Majesty says."

阿思陰與蕭阿忽帶誣奏賊掠漠南牧馬及居民畜產，陶隗不急追捕，罪當死，詔免官。 Asi conspired with Xiao Ahudai to accuse him falsely of failing to pursue raiders who had seized herd horses and civilian livestock in the Southern Desert; the offense was capital, but an edict merely removed him from office.

見權貴無少屈，竟為阿思所陷，時人惜之。 Before the mighty he never yielded an inch; in the end Asi brought him down, and contemporaries mourned him.

阿思死，始獲進用。 Only after Asi's death did they come into favor.

阿剌以諂諛不法折蕭革，陶隗以用必基禍言阿思，塔剌葛以忍行不義徒自取赤族之罪責察割，其心可謂忠矣。 Ala rebuked Xiao Ge for sycophancy and lawlessness; Taowei warned that employing Asi must lay the root of disaster; Talage blamed Chaguo that by persisting in injustice he would only bring annihilation on his own clan — their hearts may be called loyal.

History of Liao, Chapter 92Volume 92 Biographies 22: Xiao Duola, Xiao Puda, Yelu Houshen, Yelu Guyue, Yelu Dumei, Xiao Hanjia, Xiao Wuye · 1 passage

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子阿思，有傳。 His son Asi has a separate biography.

History of Liao, Chapter 95Volume 95 Biographies 25: Yelu Honggu, Yelu Maliu, Xiao Dilie, Yelu Shilu, Yelu Chenjianu, Yelu Teme, Yelu Xiantong, Xiao Susa, Yelu Dabeinu · 1 passage

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與樞密使耶律阿思論事不合，見忌，出為馬群太保。 He clashed with Commissioner of Military Affairs Yelu Asi over policy and, being resented by him, was sent out as Grand Protector of the Horse Herds.

History of Liao, Chapter 96Volume 96 Biographies 26: Yelu Renxian, Yelu Liang, Xiao Hanjianu, Xiao De, Xiao Weixin, Xiao Leyinnu, Yelu Dilie, Yao Jingxing, Yelu Asi · 5 passages

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耶律良蕭韓家奴蕭德蕭惟信蕭樂音奴耶律敵烈姚景行耶律阿思 Yelu Liang, Xiao Hanjianu, Xiao De, Xiao Weixin, Xiao Leyinnu, Yelu Dilie, Yao Jingxing, and Yelu Asi

耶律阿思，字撒班。 Yelu Asi, whose style name was Saban.

錄乙辛黨人，罪重者當籍其家，阿思受賂，多所寬貰。 When Yixin's partisans were registered, those whose crimes were grave should have had their households confiscated, but Asi took bribes and pardoned many.

蕭合魯嘗言當修邊備，阿思力沮其事，或譏其以金賣國。 Xiao Helu once argued that frontier defenses should be strengthened, but Asi strenuously blocked the proposal, and some mocked him for selling the state for gold.

良以反謀白太后，韓家奴以逆順降奚人，德與阿思殺涅魯古，皆有討賊之力焉。 Liang reported the plot of rebellion to the Empress Dowager; Hanjianu, by distinguishing loyalty from rebellion, caused the Xi to submit; Xiao De and Yelu Asi killed Nielugu — all contributed force to the suppression of the rebels.

History of Liao, Chapter 98Volume 98 Biographies 28: Xiao Wuna, Yelu Yan, Liu Shen, Yelu Hulu · 1 passage

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帝大漸，儼與北院樞密使阿思同受顧命。 When the emperor fell gravely ill, Yan and Northern Chancellery Privy Commissioner Asi jointly received the final imperial command.

History of Liao, Chapter 100Volume 100 Biographies 30: Yelu Tanggu, Xiao Delidi, Xiao Chouwo, Yelu Zhangnu, Yelu Paizhe · 2 passages

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乾統元年，為北面林牙、同知北院樞密事，受詔與北院樞密使耶律阿思治乙辛餘黨。 In the first year of Qiantong he was made northern linya and associate privy commissioner of the Northern Court, and received orders to work with Northern Court privy commissioner Yelü Asi in rooting out Yixin's remaining followers.

阿思納賄，多出其罪； Asi took bribes and let many offenders off;

History of Liao, Chapter 101Volume 101 Biographies 31: Xiao Taosuwo, Yelu Axibao, Xiao Yixue, Xiao Hudu · 2 passages

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會有訴北南院聽訟不直者，事下，陶蘇斡悉改正之，為耶律阿思所忌。 When a petitioner alleged that the North and South Councils had heard cases unfairly, the matter came before Taosuwo, who corrected every ruling—earning the enmity of Yelu Asi.

帝欲召用，輒為所沮。 The emperor wished to bring him into higher office, but each time Yelu Asi blocked it.

History of Liao, Chapter 111Volume 111 Biographies 41: Treacherous Ministers 2 · 2 passages

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乾統間，詔樞密使耶律阿思大索乙辛黨人，達魯古以賂獲免。 During Qiantong, when an edict ordered Privy Commissioner Yelü Asi to conduct a sweeping purge of Yixin's faction, Dalugu bought his way free.

及樞密使耶律阿思大索乙辛舊黨，塔不也以賂獲免。 When Privy Commissioner Yelü Asi launched a sweeping purge of Yixin's old faction, Tabuye bought his way free.