Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler of Northern Yan

Feng Ba 馮跋

Attested AD 409 - AD 430

Passages: 15
Chapters: 5
Histories: 3

Overview

Feng Ba was a ruler of Northern Yan.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 409 to AD 430 北燕主
Strongly inferred · Book of Northern Qi 40, passage 19
AD 414 to AD 430 太宗時至馮氏亡前
Dated from the passage context · Book of Wei 93, passages 7, 17
AD 409 to AD 430 晉
Directly stated · History of Liao 39, passage 113
AD 423 to AD 430 馮跋
Directly stated · Book of Wei 30, passage 38
AD 409 to AD 430 馮跋之世
Strongly inferred · Book of Wei 51, passage 109

Family

Ancestor of Feng Zicong (馮子琮)
descendant 之後
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 40, passage 19

Key source chapters

Places and affiliations

Northern Yan 北燕
Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 40, passage 19
Polity Northern Yan 北燕 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Book of Wei 51, passage 109

Events and relationships

Seized territory
Military · Conqueror · At Bei'an / Nuqi area 北安州地
Directly stated · History of Liao 39, passage 113

References in the histories

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History

15 passages

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 40Volume 40 Biographies 32: Yu Jin (Northern Qi); Feng Zicong; Helian Ziyue; Tang Yong; Bai Jian · 1 passage

馮子琮，信都人，北燕主馮跋之後也。 Feng Zicong came from Xindu and was descended from Northern Yan's ruler Feng Ba.

History of Liao, Chapter 39Volume 39 Treatises 9: Geography 3 · 1 passage

晉為馮跋所據。 Jin times saw Feng Ba take it.

Book of Wei, Chapter 30Volume 25: Zhang Sunsong, Zhangsun Daosheng · 2 passages

尚書劉潔、武京侯安原請先平馮跋。 Liu Jie of the Masters of Writing and An Yuan, Marquis of Wujing, urged that Feng Bo be subdued first.

尚書劉潔武京侯安原請先平馮跋卷三０安原傳「武京」作「武原」。 Minister Liu Jie, Marquis of Wujing, Hou Anyuan, and others asked to pacify Feng Bo first: juan 30, Anyuan's life, has "Wujing" as "Wuyuan."

Book of Wei, Chapter 51Volume 46: Dou Jin, Xu Yan, Li Xin · 1 passage

父崇，馮跋吏部尚書、石城太守。 His father Chong had served Feng Ba as Director of the Ministry of Personnel and Administrator of Shicheng.

Book of Wei, Chapter 93Volume 87: Morality and Righteousness: Yu Shenmen, Duan Jin, Shi Wende, Ji Gu, Wang Xuanwei, Lou Ti, Liu Kehou · 10 passages

太宗時為謁者，使喻馮跋。 Under Emperor Mingyuan he served as usher and was dispatched to deliver the court's message to Feng Ba.

及至和龍，住外舍不入，使人謂跋曰：「大魏皇帝有詔，須馮主出受，然後敢入。」 On reaching Helong he stayed in an outer lodge and refused to go in, sending word to Feng Ba: "The emperor of Great Wei has issued an edict. Your lordship must come out to receive it; only then may I enter."

跋使人牽逼令入，見跋不拜，跋令人按其項。 Feng Ba's men seized and hustled him inside. When he saw Feng Ba he would not bow, and Feng Ba ordered someone to press down on his neck.

什門曰：「馮主拜受詔，吾自以賓主致敬，何須苦見逼也！」 Shenmen said, "When my lord of Feng bows to receive the edict, I will offer the respect proper between host and guest. Why torment me like this?"

與跋往復，聲氣厲然，初不撓屈。 He and Feng Ba argued back and forth, his tone fierce throughout, and he never once gave way.

既而跋止什門。 In the end Feng Ba held Shenmen prisoner.

什門於羣眾之中，回身背跋，被袴後襠以辱之。 Before the assembled crowd Shenmen turned his back on Feng Ba, pulled on his trousers with the seat to the front, and presented his backside to insult him.

跋遺以衣服，什門拒而不受。 Feng Ba sent him clothing, but Shenmen refused to take it.

八月遣于什門招諭馮跋，至此年二十一年矣。 In the eighth month Yu Shenmen was sent to summon Feng Ba; by this year twenty-one years had elapsed.

若二十四年，乃在太延三年，而太延二年馮氏亡矣。」 If it were twenty-four years, that would place the return in Taiyan year 3, but the Feng state fell in Taiyan year 2."