Song, Liao, and Jin · Yelü Clanswoman, Writer, and Exemplary Woman

Changge 常哥

Attested AD 1065 - AD 1077

Passages
5
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Changge as an aristocrat, family member, poet, and writer. This record brings together 5 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Changge 常哥 Changge
Childhood name Changge 常哥 Changge
Alternate name Woman of the Yelü clan 耶律氏 Yelü shi
Surname Yelü 耶律 Yelü
Descriptive kinship Younger sister of Grand Preceptor Shilu 太師適魯之妹

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Female

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • Family Member
  • Poet
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 大康三年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1077
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:107:s0041, liaoshi:107:s0042
  • Source Date: Text: 咸雍間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1065 · End: AD 1074
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:107:s0024

Family

  • Sibling of Shilu (適魯)
    Kinship Term: younger sister / 妹 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger · Subject Role: younger sister · Object Role: elder brother

Career and standing

Places and affiliations

  • Polity Id: liao · Relation: lived-under
  • Place: Zhen Prefecture / 鎮州 · Relation: accompanied-exile-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康三年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1077
    Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0042

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: personal · Role: mourner · Action: grieved when heir apparent was killed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康三年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1077
    Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0045
  • Kind: personal · Role: ascetic · Action: plain clothes and simple food during brother's exile
    Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0042
  • Kind: literary · Role: author · Action: sent palindrome verse to Yelü Yixin
    Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0039
  • Relation: satirized · Person Id: Yelü Yixin (耶律乙辛)

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: worthy woman: kept herself pure, unmarried, yet loyal to her sovereign · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0096
  • Kind: vow · Statement: vowed never to marry
    Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0021

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 107Volume 107 Biographies 37: Exemplary Women · 5 passages