Fan Aineng (樊愛能) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Fan Aineng as a general and military officer. This record brings together 7 passages from 4 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Fan Aineng	樊愛能	Fan Aineng
Personal	Aineng	愛能
Personal	Fan Aineng	樊爱能
Personal name	Fan Aineng	樊愛能	Fán Àinéng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:012:s0030
Value: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:070:s0043

Roles

General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution · Authority Person Id: Shizong (世宗)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:070:s0057
Manner: execution · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 显德元年三月己亥 · Western Year: AD 954
Explicit · xinwudaishi:012:s0030
Manner: beheaded · Place: Luzhou / 潞州
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:119:s0128

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 世宗戰高平 · Western Year: AD 954
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0089
Source Date: Text: 显德元年三月己亥 · Western Year: AD 954
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:012:s0030
Source Date: Text: 顯德元年三月 · Western Year: AD 954
Explicit · xinwudaishi:070:s0043
Source Date: Text: 高平之役 · Western Year: AD 954
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:119:s0123

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: retreating-commander · Action: fell-back
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:119:s0123
Kind: military · Role: right-wing-commander · Action: fled
Explicit · xinwudaishi:070:s0043, xinwudaishi:070:s0050

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 119Volume 119 Book of Later Zhou 21: Shizong Annals 6 · 2 passages

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親軍帥樊愛能等各退衄，世宗赫怒，躍馬入陣，引五十人直沖崇之牙帳。 Guard commanders such as Fan Aineng fell back in defeat. Shizong blazed with anger, spurred his horse into the line, and with fifty men charged straight at Chong's headquarters.

凱旋，駐蹕潞州，且欲出其不意以誅退衄者，乃置酒高會，指樊愛能等數人責之曰：「汝輩皆累朝宿將，非不能用兵者也，然退衄者無他，誠欲將寡人作物貨賣與劉崇爾。 Returning in triumph, he halted at Luzhou and planned to catch the defeated commanders off guard. At a grand banquet he pointed at Fan Aineng and several others and rebuked them: "You are veteran generals of successive reigns, not men who cannot fight—yet you fell back because you wished to sell me to Liu Chong like goods on the market.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 12Volume 12 Later Zhou Annals 3: Shizong, Emperor Gong · 1 passage

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己亥，侍卫马军都指挥使樊爱能、步军都指挥使何徽伏诛。 On jihai Fan Aineng, commander of the palace horse guard, and He Hui, commander of the palace foot guard, were put to death.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 50Volume 50 Miscellaneous Biographies 30: Wang Jun, Wang Yin, Liu Ci, Wang Huan, Zhe Congruan · 1 passage

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世宗戰高平，樊愛能等軍敗南走，遇詞而止之曰：「軍敗矣，可無前也。」 At Gaoping, Fan Aineng’s men broke south. They met Ci and cried: "The army is lost—go no farther."

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 70Volume 70: Hereditary House of Eastern Han · 3 passages

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顯德元年三月親征，甲午，戰於高平，李重進、白重贊將左，樊愛能、何徽將右，向訓、史彥超居中軍，張永德以禁兵衛蹕。 Third month, Xiande 1: he marched in person. On jiawu day the armies met at Gaoping—Li Chongjin and Bai Chongzan on the left, Fan Aineng and He Hui on the right, Xiang Xun and Shi Yanchao in the center, Zhang Yongde shielding the imperial train with the palace guard.

即麾元徽，元徽擊周右軍，兵始交，愛能、徽退走，其騎軍亂，步卒數千棄甲叛降元徽，呼萬歲聲振川谷。 He waved Yuanhui on. Yuanhui charged the Zhou right; at first clash Fan Aineng and He Hui fled; cavalry broke; thousands of infantry threw down arms and surrendered to Yuanhui, shouting "Long live!" till valleys echoed.

世宗休軍潞州，大宴將士，斬敗將樊愛能、何徽等七十餘人，軍威大振。 Shizong paused at Luzhou, banqueted his captains, and beheaded seventy-odd failed commanders, Fan and He among them; discipline surged.