Emperor Yin (隱帝) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Yin as a royal family member and ruler. This record brings together 83 passages from 16 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Emperor Yin	隱帝	Yin di
Personal	Chengyou	承祐	Chéngyòu
Personal name	Chengyou	承祐	Chéngyòu
Given name	Chengyou	承祐	Chéngyòu
Title	emperor	帝
Title	Emperor	帝
Posthumous	Emperor Yin	隱帝	Yin di
Title	Emperor Yin	隱帝	Yǐn dì
Temple name	Emperor Yin	隱帝	Yǐndì
Temple	Emperor Yin	隱帝	Yindi
Temple name	Emperor Yin	隱帝	Yǐn dì
Temple	Emperor Yin	隱帝	Yin Di
Temple	Emperor Yin of Han	漢隱帝	Han Yindi
Temple name	Emperor Yindi	隱帝	Yindi
Title	Emperor Yindi of Later Han	漢隱帝	Han Yindi
Temple	Emperor Yindi of Later Han	漢隱帝	Hàn Yǐndì
Title	Han Hidden Emperor	漢隱帝
Title	Han Yindi	漢隱帝
Title	Han Yindi	漢隱帝	Han Yindi
Title	Hidden Emperor
Temple	Hidden Emperor	隱帝	Yindi
Temple name	Hidden Emperor	隱帝	Yǐndì
Surname	Liu	劉	Liú
Title	Prince of Zhou	周王
Title	Yin
Title	Yin Emperor
Temple	Yindi	隱帝	Yindi
Posthumous	Yindi	隱帝	Yǐndì
Title	young emperor	少主
Title	young emperor	少主	shào zhǔ

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:102:s0001, jiuwudaishi:138:s0020, jiuwudaishi:139:s0036, jiuwudaishi:147:s0017
Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:104:s0011, jiuwudaishi:105:s0085, jiuwudaishi:121:s0062, jiuwudaishi:130:s0009, liaoshi:005:s0045, xinwudaishi:011:s0017, xinwudaishi:018:s0023, xinwudaishi:018:s0027, xinwudaishi:031:s0003, xinwudaishi:053:s0013
Value: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:070:s0006

Roles

Royal Family Member
Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Place: Zhao Village / 趙村 · Cause: assassinated · Authority Person Id: Guo Yunming (郭允明)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:011:s0053
Manner: regicide · Cause: murdered by Guo Wei / 郭威弒其主 · Killer Person Id: Guo Wei (郭威) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天祿五年 · Western Year: AD 951
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:005:s0051
Date: Source Date: Text: 帝立三年崩 · Western Year: AD 950 · Manner: assassination
Explicit · xinwudaishi:018:s0029, xinwudaishi:018:s0078
Manner: assassinated · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit · xinwudaishi:070:s0013
Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾祐三年冬十一月 · Western Year: AD 950 · Manner: killed-in-palace-upheaval
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:105:s0086, jiuwudaishi:105:s0036, jiuwudaishi:105:s0069
Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾祐三年十一月乙酉 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0172
Date Context: Source Date: Text: 在位三年，崩時年二十 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:104:s0033
Manner: assassinated / 遇弒 · Place: northern suburbs / 北郊
Explicit · xinwudaishi:053:s0076
Manner: assassinated / 遇弒
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0108

Age

Age: 20 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 崩時 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0172
Age: 20 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 崩時年二十 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:104:s0033
Age: 20 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 帝立三年崩 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit · xinwudaishi:018:s0078

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:070:s0013
Source Date: Text: 乾祐三年 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:139:s0036
Source Date: Text: 乾祐三年冬十一月 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:105:s0086
Source Date: Text: 乾祐三年十一月；崩 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0172
Source Date: Text: 乾祐三年十一月 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:011:s0053
Source Date: Text: 乾祐二年 · Western Year: AD 949
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:102:s0065
Source Date: Text: 乾祐元年 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:011:s0018
Source Date: Text: 乾祐元年 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit · xinwudaishi:018:s0025, xinwudaishi:018:s0027
Source Date: Text: 乾祐元年二月；即位 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0067, xinwudaishi:010:s0068
Source Date: Text: 在位三年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 948 · End: AD 950
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:104:s0033
Source Date: Text: 天祿二年 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:005:s0045
Source Date: Text: 天祿五年 · Western Year: AD 951
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:005:s0051
Source Date: Text: 帝立三年崩 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit · xinwudaishi:018:s0078, xinwudaishi:018:s0029
Source Date: Text: 漢隱帝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 948 · End: AD 950
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:130:s0009
Source Date: Text: 漢隱帝 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:031:s0003, xinwudaishi:031:s0004
Source Date: Text: 漢隱帝已殺大臣 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:050:s0002
Source Date: Text: 漢隱帝時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 948 · End: AD 950
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:138:s0020, jiuwudaishi:138:s0040
Source Date: Text: 漢隱帝末 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0062, jiuwudaishi:147:s0017
Source Date: Text: 隱帝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 948 · End: AD 950
Explicit · xinwudaishi:053:s0013
Source Date: Text: 隱帝即位 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:104:s0011
Source Date: Text: 隱帝時 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit · xinwudaishi:070:s0006

Family

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Child of Empress Li (李氏)
Kinship Term: bore / 生 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: empress dowager / 皇太后 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Sibling of Cheng Xun (承訓)
Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Birth Order: 1 · Object Birth Order: 2
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Shared Parentage: full
Sibling of Princess Yongning (永寧公主)
Kinship Term: elder sister / 姊 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: younger · Subject Role: younger-brother · Object Role: elder-sister · Object Birth Order: 21
Child of Empress Dowager (太后)
Kinship Term: Empress Dowager / 太后 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Kin of Zhang Yancheng (張彥成)
Kinship Term: father-in-law / 外戚 · Subject Role: father-in-law · Object Role: son-in-law
Child of Later Han Gaozu (漢高祖)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Gaozu of Han (漢高祖)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Birth Order: 2
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 2
Spouse of Daughter of Zhang Yancheng (彥成女)
Kinship Term: married / 娶 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: active
Child of Empress Li (李氏)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Sibling of Chengxun (承勳)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Shared Parentage: full
Sibling of Xun (勛)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 皇弟 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother

Kinship Role: empress · Count: 0 · Negated: true
Explicit · xinwudaishi:018:s0077, xinwudaishi:018:s0078

Career and standing

Label: emperor / 帝
Explicit · xinwudaishi:018:s0027
Title: Prince of Zhou / 周王 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾祐元年二月辛巳 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0067
Status: no-empress-invested · Negated: true
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:104:s0031, jiuwudaishi:104:s0033
Status: minor-sovereign · Note: young; power with ministers
Explicit · xinwudaishi:070:s0007
Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾祐元年二月辛巳 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0067, xinwudaishi:010:s0068
Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天祿二年 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:005:s0045
Date Context: Source Date: Text: 隱帝即位 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:104:s0011
Date Context: Source Date: Text: 隱帝嗣位 · Western Interval: Start: AD 948 · End: AD 950
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:105:s0085, jiuwudaishi:105:s0006
Explicit · xinwudaishi:011:s0018

Places and affiliations

Label: Han / 漢 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · liaoshi:005:s0045
Label: Later Han / 漢 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:105:s0085, jiuwudaishi:147:s0017, xinwudaishi:018:s0027
Polity: Later Han / 漢 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:104:s0011, jiuwudaishi:121:s0062, jiuwudaishi:139:s0036
Place: Yingling / 潁陵 · Relation: buried-at · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 周廣順元年 · Western Year: AD 951
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0173

Works and attributed material

Kind: edict · Role: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:102:s0001, jiuwudaishi:102:s0002, jiuwudaishi:102:s0003, jiuwudaishi:102:s0004, jiuwudaishi:102:s0005, jiuwudaishi:102:s0006, jiuwudaishi:102:s0007, jiuwudaishi:102:s0008, jiuwudaishi:102:s0009, jiuwudaishi:102:s0010, jiuwudaishi:102:s0011, jiuwudaishi:102:s0012, jiuwudaishi:102:s0013, jiuwudaishi:102:s0014, jiuwudaishi:102:s0015, jiuwudaishi:102:s0016, jiuwudaishi:102:s0017, jiuwudaishi:102:s0018, jiuwudaishi:102:s0019, jiuwudaishi:102:s0020, jiuwudaishi:102:s0021, jiuwudaishi:102:s0022, jiuwudaishi:102:s0023
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Guo Wei (郭威)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:011:s0020
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Empress Li (李氏)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:018:s0003
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quote: true · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Zizhi tongjian / 通鑒
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:104:s0016

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: victim · Action: died-in-palace-upheaval
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:105:s0086
Kind: legal · Role: ruler · Action: executed-ministers
Explicit · xinwudaishi:031:s0004
Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: law-books-lost-at-end-of-reign
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0017
Kind: political · Role: conspirator · Action: plotted-executions · Other Person Id: Yang Bin (楊邠)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:018:s0007
Kind: political · Role: conspirator · Action: plotted-to-execute-yang-bin · Other Person Id: Yang Bin (楊邠) · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Zizhi tongjian / 通鑒
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:104:s0014
Kind: ritual · Role: proposer · Action: sought-empress-funeral-for-lady-geng · Other Person Id: Lady Geng (耿夫人)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:104:s0032
Kind: military · Role: ruler · Action: went-out-to-battle-and-met-disaster
Explicit · xinwudaishi:018:s0013
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: wished-to-encourage-troops · Place: Liuzipo / 劉子陂 · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Zizhi tongjian / 通鑒
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:104:s0018, jiuwudaishi:104:s0020
Relation: favored · Person Id: Lady Geng (耿夫人)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:104:s0032

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: taboo clash of personal name Chengyou with era Qianyou was a great contemporary fault · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0169

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:139:s0036, jiuwudaishi:147:s0017

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 102Volume 102 Book of Later Jin 4: Emperor Yin Annals 2 · 4 passages

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辛丑，幸道宮禱雨。 On xinchou, the emperor visited a Daoist temple to pray for rain.

〈（《宋史·段思恭傳》：隱帝蝗詔遍祈山川。 (《Song History·Biography of Duan Sigong》: Emperor Yin's locust edict ordered prayers throughout mountains and rivers.

帝然之，於是宏肇與宰相、樞密使、三司使，次第加恩。 The emperor approved, and then Hongzhao, the chief ministers, the Bureau of Military Affairs commissioner, and the Commissioner of the Three Departments received favors in sequence.

壬午，皇帝二十一姊永寧公主進封秦國長公主。 On renwu, the emperor's twenty-first elder sister, Princess Yongning, was advanced to Grand Princess of Qin.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 104Volume 104 Book of Later Jin 6: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 8 passages

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隱帝即位，尊為皇太后。 When Emperor Yin succeeded she became empress dowager.

據《通鑒》云：隱帝與李業等謀誅楊邠等，議既定，入白太后，太后曰：「茲事何可輕發，更宜與宰相議之。」 The 《Zizhi tongjian》 records that Emperor Yin and Li Ye resolved to kill Yang Bin; when they told the dowager she said, "Do not rush this; take it to the chief ministers first."

太后復以為言，帝忿曰：「國家之事，非閨門所知。」 She pressed again; the emperor snapped, "State business is no concern of women's quarters."

又云：南北軍遇於劉子陂，帝欲自出勞軍，太后曰：「郭威吾家故舊，非死亡切身，何以至此！ The same work adds: at Liuzipo the young ruler meant to ride out to hearten the lines; the dowager cried, "Guo Wei is family to us—would he rebel without mortal cause!

帝不從。）〉 The young ruler brushed aside her warning. (End of editorial note.)〉

〈（案：隱帝未立皇后，據薛史《張彥成傳》云：隱帝娶彥成女。 Editor's note: Yin never crowned a queen; the Old History biography of Zhang Yancheng says he wed Zhang Yancheng's daughter.

《楊邠傳》云：隱帝所愛耿夫人，欲立為後，邠以為太速，夫人卒，隱帝欲以後禮葬，邠又止之。 The 《Yang Bin zhuan》 adds that Yin doted on Lady Geng and wanted her as empress; Yang Bin called it premature. When she died Yin demanded an empress's funeral, and Yang Bin blocked that too.

蓋隱帝在位三年，崩時年二十，故未及冊立皇后也。 He ruled barely three years and died at twenty, so he never crowned a queen.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 105Volume 105 Book of Later Jin 7: Biographies 2: Imperial Family · 5 passages

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隱帝即位，加檢校太師。 After Emperor Yin succeeded, Xin was made honorary Grand Preceptor.

隱帝嗣位，加檢校太尉、同平章事，遙領興元尹，俄代侯益為開封尹，進位檢校太師、兼侍中。 When Emperor Yin succeeded, he was made honorary Grand Marshal and vice grand councilor, with distant command as Xingyuan prefect; soon he replaced Hou Yi as Kaifeng prefect and was promoted to honorary Grand Preceptor and Palace Attendant.

乾祐三年冬十一月，蕭墻之亂，隱帝崩，軍情欲立勛為嗣。 In the eleventh month of Qianyou 3, at the palace upheaval Emperor Yin died, and the armies wanted to make Xun heir.

郭威既敗慕容彥超於北郊，隱帝遇弒，威入京師，謂諸大臣密相推戴，及見宰相馮道等，道殊無意。 After Guo Wei routed Murong Yanchao north of the capital and Emperor Yin was murdered, Wei entered the city and asked the chief ministers to back him in secret; when he met Feng Dao and the rest, Dao showed no inclination whatsoever.

周祖之入京師也，少主崩於北岡，周主命宰相馮道迎湘陰公，將立之。 When the Zhou founder entered the capital, the young emperor died on the northern ridge; the Zhou ruler ordered Feng Dao to escort the Duke of Xiangyin and install him.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 121Volume 121 Book of Later Zhou 23: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage

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漢隱帝末，蕭墻變起，屠害大臣，太祖在鄴都被讒，妃與諸皇屬同日遇害於東京舊第。 At the end of Han Yindi's reign palace intrigue erupted and ministers were slaughtered; slandered while in Ye, the Emperor could not save her—she and the imperial kin were killed on the same day at his old residence in the Eastern Capital.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 130Volume 130 Book of Later Zhou 32: Biographies 10: Wang Jun, Murong Yanchao, Yan Honglu, Cui Zhoudu · 5 passages

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及趙思綰作亂於永興，漢隱帝命郭從義討之，以峻為兵馬都監。 When Zhao Siwan rose in rebellion at Yongxing, Emperor Yindi of Later Han ordered Guo Congyi to crush him and appointed Jun director of armies and cavalry.

隱帝蕭墻變起，峻亦為群小所構，舉家見害。 When the palace coup struck under Emperor Yindi, Jun too was framed by petty schemers, and his entire household was slaughtered.

彥超鎮兗州，漢隱帝欲殺周太祖，召彥超，方食，釋匕箸而就道。 While Yanchao governed Yan Prefecture, Emperor Yindi of Later Han plotted to kill Guo Wei and summoned him. Yanchao was in the middle of a meal but set down his utensils and set out at once.

周兵犯京師，隱帝出勞軍，太后使彥超衛帝，彥超曰：「北兵何能為，當於陣上唱坐使歸營。」 When Zhou troops marched on the capital, Yindi went out to review the army. The empress dowager ordered Yanchao to protect the emperor. Yanchao said, "What can northern soldiers do? I will stand on the field and call the commissioner to return to camp."

彥超敗，奔兗，隱帝遇弒。 Yanchao was beaten, fled to Yan, and Yindi was murdered.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 138Volume 138: Foreign States Biographies 2: Tubo, Huihu, Goryeo, Bohai Tungusic Tribes, Heishui Tungusic Tribes, Silla, Tangut, Kunming Tribes, Yutian, Champa, Zangkeman · 2 passages

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至漢隱帝時，涼州留後折逋嘉施來請命，漢即以爲節度使。 Under Emperor Yindi of Later Han, Zhebo Jiashi, acting governor of Liangzhou, came to seek appointment, and the Han court at once made him military governor.

至漢隱帝時，猶來朝，後遂不復至，史亦失其君世雲。 Under Emperor Yindi of Later Han they still came to court, but afterward they ceased coming altogether, and the histories no longer record their royal succession.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 139Volume 139: Treatises 1 Astronomy · 1 passage

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漢隱帝乾祐三年，十一月甲子朔，日有蝕之。 In the third year of Qianyou under Han Yindi, on the new moon of the eleventh month (jiazi), the sun was eclipsed.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 147Volume 147: Treatises 9 Punishment and Law · 1 passage

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先是，漢隱帝末，因兵亂法書亡失，至是大理奏重寫律令格式、統類編敕，凡改點畫及義理之誤字凡二百一十有四，以晉、漢及國初事關刑法敕條，凡二十六件，分為二卷，附於編敕，目為《大周續編敕》，命省、寺行用焉。 Earlier, at the end of the Han reign of Emperor Yin, the law books had been lost in the wars. The Court of Judicial Review now memorialized for a rewrite of the statutes, ordinances, formats, comprehensive categories, and compiled edicts, correcting two hundred and fourteen mistaken characters in form or meaning, and gathering twenty-six edict articles on penal law from the Jin and Han periods and the founding of the state into two scrolls appended to the compiled edicts under the title Great Zhou Supplementary Compiled Edicts, with orders for the ministries and courts to put them into use.

History of Liao, Chapter 5Volume 5 Annals 5: Shizong · 2 passages

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漢主劉知遠殂，子承祐立。 Han ruler Liu Zhiyuan died, and his son Chengyou succeeded him.