Qin and Han · Official and Writer

Feng Yan 馮衍

Attested AD 9 - AD 57

Passages
38
Chapters
3
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Feng Yan as a general, military officer, official, and scholar. This record brings together 38 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Feng Yan 馮衍 Feng Yan
Surname Feng 馮 Féng
Personal name Feng Yan 馮衍 Feng Yan
Personal name Feng Yan 馮衍 Féng Yǎn
Personal Feng Yan 馮衍
Courtesy name Jingtong 敬通 Jingtong
Alternate name Master Feng 馮子 Féng zǐ
Given Yan 衍 Yǎn
Given 衍 Yan
Surname 馮 Feng

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • General
  • Military Officer
  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

Age

Attested activity

  • Western Interval: Start: AD 25 · End: AD 57 · Source Date: Text: 光武以馮衍才浮其實，故棄而不齒。
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0111
  • Source Date: Text: 建武六年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 30 · End: AD 30
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:031:s0086
  • Source Date: Text: 建武末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 55 · End: AD 56
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:032:s0001
  • Source Date: Text: 昔在更始 · Western Interval: Start: AD 23 · End: AD 25
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:032:s0010
  • Source Date: Text: 更始二年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 24 · End: AD 24
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:031:s0086
  • Source Date: Text: 王莽時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 9 · End: AD 23
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:031:s0086
  • Source Date: Text: 顯宗即位 · Western Year: AD 57
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:032:s0172

Family

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  • Descendant of Feng Yewang (馮野王)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal · Subject Role: grandfather · Object Role: grandson
  • Parent of Eldest son of Feng Yan (馮衍元子)
    Kinship Term: eldest son / 元子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Subject Birth Order: 1
    Kinship Term: eldest son / 元子 · Parentage: biological
  • Child of Father of Feng Yan (先將軍)
    Kinship Term: late father, the general / 先將軍 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
    Kinship Term: former general / 先將軍 · Parentage: biological
  • Parent of Feng Bao (馮豹)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological
  • Spouse of Stepmother of Feng Bao (後母)
    Kinship Term: stepmother [of Bao] / 後母 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Relationship State: active
    Kinship Term: stepmother / 後母 · Union Category: primary-marriage
  • Spouse of Wife of Feng Yan (北地住氏女)
    Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Relationship State: divorced
    Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Relationship State: divorced

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Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

References in the histories

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Book of Later Han, Chapter 31Volume 28a: Biographies of Huan Tan; Feng Yan · 26 passages
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因遣使者招永、衍，永、衍等疑不肯降，而忿邑背前約，衍乃遺邑書曰：蓋聞晉文出奔而子犯宣其忠，趙武逢難而程嬰明其賢，二子之義當矣。 He then sent envoys to summon Bao Yong and Feng Yan; they hesitated and refused to submit, and resenting Tian Yi for breaking their earlier pact, Feng Yan wrote to him: "When Duke Wen of Jin fled into exile, Zi Fan showed his loyalty; when Duke Wu of Zhao met disaster, Cheng Ying proved his worth—both acted as righteousness required."
Book of Later Han, Chapter 32Volume 28b: Biography of Feng Yan · 11 passages
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Book of Song, Chapter 62Volume 62 Biographies 22: Yang Xin, Zhang Fu, Wang Wei · 1 passage
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