Deng Yan (鄧彥) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Deng Yan as an official and rebel. This record brings together 9 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	Deng Yan	鄧彥	Deng Yan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

Official
Rebel

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 大同十一年 · Western Year: AD 545
Explicit event contextual date · zizhitongjian:159:s0003, zizhitongjian:159:s0003a, zizhitongjian:159:s0171k

Family

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Spouse of Daughter of Rong
Kinship Term: son-in-law / 婿 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband · Intermediary Person Ids: Rong, Prince of Dongyang (東陽王榮) · Relationship State: active

Career and standing

Label: Governor of Guazhou / 刺史 · Action: recognized by Western Wei after seizure · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同十一年 · Western Year: AD 545
Explicit · zizhitongjian:159:s0171m
Action: captured, bound, and sent to Chang'an · Authority Person Id: Shen Hui (申徽) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同十一年 · Western Year: AD 545
Explicit · zizhitongjian:159:s0171s, zizhitongjian:159:s0171t

Events and relationships

Kind: murder and seizure of office · Role: perpetrator · Action: killed Kang and seized the governorship · Other Person Id: Kang (康) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同十一年 · Western Year: AD 545
Explicit · zizhitongjian:159:s0171l

References in the histories

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Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Chapter 159Volume 159 Liang Records 15 · 9 passages

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魏東陽王榮為瓜州刺史，與其婿鄧彥偕行。 Western Wei's Prince of Dongyang, Rong, was governor of Guazhou and traveled with his son-in-law Deng Yan.

榮卒，瓜州首望表榮子康為刺史，彥殺康而奪其位。 Rong died; Guazhou's leading clans nominated his son Kang as governor; Yan killed Kang and seized his post.

魏不能討，因以彥為刺史，屢征不至，又南通吐谷渾。 Western Wei could not punish him and made him governor; repeatedly summoned, he did not come, and also allied south with Tuyuhun.

丞相泰以道遠難於動眾，欲以計取之，以給事黃門侍郎申徽為河西大使，密令圖彥。 Yuwen Tai, finding the road too far for an army, wished to take him by stratagem and made Shen Hui, Attendant of the Yellow Gate, western-route ambassador to plot against Yan in secret.

彥見徽單使，不以為疑。 Yan saw a lone envoy and did not suspect him.

徽遣人微勸彥歸朝，彥不從； Hui secretly urged Yan to return to court; Yan refused;

徽又使贊成其留計，彥信之，遂來至館。 Hui again had men support his plan to remain; Yan believed them and came to the lodge.

徽先與州主簿敦煌令狐整等密謀，執彥於坐，責而縛之； Hui had secretly plotted with the commandery recorder Linghu Zheng of Dunhuang and others; they seized Yan at the seat, reproached and bound him;

因宣詔慰諭吏民，且云「大軍續至」，城中無敢動者，遂送彥於長安。 then proclaimed the edict to comfort officials and people and said "the great army follows at once"; the city dared not move, and they sent Yan to Chang'an.