Chou Yin (仇殷) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Chou Yin as an astrologer, diviner, and official. This record brings together 10 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	Chou Yin	仇殷	Chou Yin
Personal name	Chou Yin	仇殷	Chou Yin
Given	Yin	殷	Yin

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0153

Roles

Astrologer
Diviner
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died in office
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0174

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 光化中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 898 · End: AD 901
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0155
Source Date: Text: 開平中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 907 · End: AD 911
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0154, jiuwudaishi:024:s0164

Career and standing

Label: Director of the Directorate of Astronomy / 欽天監 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 907 · End: AD 911
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0154
Label: fines and punishments / 責罰 · Action: suffered
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0173

Learning and skills

Skill: astronomy, calendar, divination / 象緯曆數 · Level: unrivaled
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0154

Events and relationships

Kind: divination · Role: diviner · Action: predicted-no-assault-at-Changlu · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 907 · End: AD 911
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0160, jiuwudaishi:024:s0161, jiuwudaishi:024:s0162, jiuwudaishi:024:s0163
Kind: divination · Role: diviner · Action: predicted-Youlun-victory · Other Person Id: Zhu Youlun (朱友倫) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光化中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 898 · End: AD 901
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0155, jiuwudaishi:024:s0156, jiuwudaishi:024:s0157, jiuwudaishi:024:s0158, jiuwudaishi:024:s0159
Kind: divination · Role: diviner · Action: warned-against-deep-advance · Other Person Id: Wang Jingren (王景仁)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0168, jiuwudaishi:024:s0169, jiuwudaishi:024:s0170
Kind: divination · Role: diviner · Action: warned-of-Liu-Zhijun-revolt · Other Person Id: Jing Xiang (敬翔)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0164, jiuwudaishi:024:s0165, jiuwudaishi:024:s0166, jiuwudaishi:024:s0167

Assessments and attributes

Kind: character · Statement: exceedingly timid and rarely spoke openly
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0172
Kind: speech · Statement: accent hard to understand; often fined
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0173

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 24Volume 24 Book of Later Liang 24: Biographies 14: Li Ting, Lu Ceng, Sun Zhi, Zhang Jun, Zhang Yan, Du Xunhe, Luo Yin, Chou Yin, Duan Shen · 10 passages

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仇殷，不知何郡人也。 Chou Yin came from a commandery that is not recorded.

光化中，太祖在滑，遣密王友倫以兵三萬禦幽州之師十餘萬，深慮其不敵，召殷問曰：「陣可行乎？」 In Guanghua, at Hua, the Founder secretly sent Prince of Mi Wang Youlun with thirty thousand men against more than a hundred thousand from Youzhou; fearing defeat, he asked Yin: "Can we give battle?"

曰：「其十四日過禺中乎！」 Yin said: "On the fourteenth they will pass mid-morning!"

殷曰：「何用？」 Yin said: "What is the use?"

或以所謀告之，殷曰：「我占矣，不見攻壁象，無乃自退乎！」 Told the plan, Yin said: "I have cast the signs—no image of storming walls; they will retreat on their own!"

開平中，殷一日朝罷，過崇政院，使敬翔直閣，翔問之曰：「月犯房次星，其逼若綴，是何祥也？」 In Kaiping, leaving court one day Yin passed the Chongzheng Court where Jing Xiang was on duty; Xiang asked: "The moon encroaches on a star in Fang—the approach looks slow; what omen is this?"

曰：「常度耳。」 Yin said: "Nothing unusual."

殷欲不言，既過數步，自度不可默，乃反言曰：「三兩日當有不順語至，無或驟恐，宜先白上知。」 He meant to say nothing; after a few steps he turned back: "In two or three days bad news will come—do not be alarmed; tell the Emperor first."

殷上言：「太陰虧，不利深入。」 Yin warned: "The moon is waning—deep advance is unlucky."

殷所見觸類如是，不可備錄。 Cases like these fill his record and cannot all be given here.