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Emperor Yin was a ruler.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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posthumous name Yin 隱
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- Polity Later Han 後漢 · Relation Associated with
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 103Volume 103 Book of Later Han 5: Emperor Yin Annals, Part 2 · 11 passages
乃白太后，以質為兵部侍郎、樞密副使。）〉
He then had Zhi made war vice minister and bureau vice commissioner.)〉
具言軍情有屬，天命已定，瑽執崇手而泣，崇即送瑽就館。）〉
He said the army's will was settled and Heaven's mandate fixed; Yun wept, grasped his hand, and Chong escorted him to his quarters.)〉
明年正月丁卯，太后誥，奉符寶於監國，可即皇帝位。
Next year's first month, dingmao, the dowager delivered the regalia to the regent to take the throne.
是月十五日，周太祖與百僚詣帝殯宮，成服親奠，不視朝七日。
On the fifteenth the Zhou founder and officials went to the late emperor's hall, mourned in person, and suspended court seven days.
又詔太常定謚曰「隱」。
An edict fixed his posthumous title as "Yin."
帝姿貌白晰，眉目疏朗，未即位時，目多閃掣，唾洟不止，即位之始，遽無此態，及內難將作，復如故。
He was fair-skinned with clear, sparse brows and eyes; before reigning his eyes twitched and he spat constantly—at his accession this stopped, but it returned when the palace coup neared.
帝自關西平定之後，稍自驕易，然畏憚大臣，未至縱恣。
After the northwest was pacified he grew somewhat arrogant but still feared his senior ministers and did not run wild.
高祖之征鄴城也，一日，帝語太祖曰：「我夜來夢爾為驢，負我升天，既舍爾，俄變為龍，舍我南去，是何祥也？」
During Gaozu's Yedu campaign the emperor told Guo Wei, "I dreamed you were a donkey carrying me to Heaven, then a dragon that left me south—what omen is that?"
史臣曰：隱帝以尚幼之年，嗣新造之業。
The historian writes: Emperor Yin took a newly founded realm while still very young.
然西摧三叛，雖僅滅於欃槍，而內稔群兇，俄自取於狼狽。
He crushed the three western rebellions yet nurtured palace villains and fell to their treachery.
自古覆宗絕祀之速者，未有如帝之甚也。
No house in history fell faster than his.