Chen Yuan (陳源) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Chen Yuan as an eunuch and official. This record brings together 15 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Chen Yuan	陳源	Chen Yuan
Given	Yuan	源

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · songshi:469:s0005

Roles

Eunuch
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 十年春 · Western Year: AD 1183
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:469:s0108
Source Date: Text: 慶元二年 · Western Year: AD 1196
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:469:s0188
Source Date: Text: 淳熙中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1174 · End: AD 1189
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:469:s0101
Source Date: Text: 紹熙四年 · Western Year: AD 1193
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:469:s0183

Career and standing

Label: Escort Leader of the Inner Attendant Directorate / 入內內侍省押班 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 紹熙四年 · Western Year: AD 1193
Explicit · songshi:469:s0183
Label: Superintendent of Deshou Palace / 提舉德壽宮 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 淳熙中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1174 · End: AD 1189
Explicit · songshi:469:s0101
Label: banished to Jian Prefecture / 謫源建州居住 · Action: suffered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 淳熙十年 · Western Year: AD 1183
Explicit · songshi:469:s0110

Places and affiliations

Label: Song / 宋 · Relation: served
Explicit · songshi:469:s0101

Assessments and attributes

Item: Little Retreat garden / 小隱 · Relation: owned
Explicit · songshi:469:s0113

References in the histories

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History of Song, Chapter 469Volume 469 Biographies 228: Eunuchs 4: Shao Chengzhang, Lan Gui Kanglu, Feng Yi, Zhang Quwei, Chen Yuan, Gan Bian, Wang Deqian, Guan Li, Dong Songchen · 15 passages

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馮益張去為陳源甘王德謙關禮董宋臣 Feng Yi, Zhang Quwei, Chen Yuan, Gan Bian, Wang Deqian, Guan Li, and Dong Songchen

陳源，淳熙中提舉德壽宮，頗有寵。 In the Chunxi era Chen Yuan superintended Deshou Palace and enjoyed considerable favor.

源恃恩顓恣，本宮書史徐彥通者為源掌家務，不數歲，官至經武大夫； Yuan grew tyrannical; palace clerk Xu Yantong ran his household and within years became Military Merit Grandee;

甄士昌，源廝役也，工理發，奏補承信郎； his barber Zhen Shichang was memorialized into office as Credentialed Gentleman;

十年春，詔源應奉日久，特落階官，與京祠。 In spring of year 10 the emperor stripped his rank and gave him a capital temple stipend.

台官黃洽等又劾之，乃謫源建州居住，籍其貲進德壽宮。 Censors Huang Qia and others impeached him again; he was exiled to Jian Prefecture and his wealth was seized for Deshou Palace.

言者猶未已，移源郴州。 Critics were still unsatisfied and shifted his exile to Chen Prefecture.

源有園名「小隱」，其制視禁籞有加，高宗以賜王才人。 Yuan owned a garden called "Little Retreat" finer than the imperial park; Gaozong gave it to the Talented Lady Wang.

光宗即位，復召還。 When Guangzong took the throne, Yuan was recalled.

帝以疾不朝重華宮，源與內侍楊舜卿、林億年數有間言。 Ill, the emperor stopped attending Chonghua Palace; Yuan and inner attendants Yang Shunqing and Lin Yinian repeatedly traded slanders.

詔罷源等官，源撫州、億年常州居住，舜卿任便居住。 An edict removed Yuan and the others from office: Yuan to Fuzhou, Yinian to Changzhou, Shunqing free to reside where he wished.