Gao Mohan (高模翰) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Gao Mohan as an aristocrat, general, official, and statesman. This record brings together 20 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Gao Mohan	高模翰	Gāo Móhàn
Surname	Gao	高
Personal name	Gao Mohan	高模翰	Gāo Móhàn
Given name	Mohan	模翰
Alternate name	Song	松	Sōng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:076:s0062

Roles

Aristocrat
General
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Expression: died / 卒 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 應歷九年正月 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0106

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 應歷初 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 951
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0104
Source Date: Text: 應曆2年 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 952
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:006:s0026
Source Date: Text: 應曆3年 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:006:s0047
Source Date: Text: 應歷九年正月 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0106
Source Date: Text: 天祿二年 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0103
Source Date: Text: 天顯十一年七月 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0067, liaoshi:076:s0069
Source Date: Text: 會同元年 · Western Year: AD 938
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0077

Family

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Spouse of Daughter of the King of Goryeo (高麗王女)
Kinship Term: gave a daughter in marriage / 妻以女 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Bohai / 渤海
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0062

Career and standing

Label: Right Chancellor of the Central Secretariat / 中臺省右相 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 應歷初 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 951
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0104
Label: Left Chancellor / 左相 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 應歷九年正月 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0106
Label: deputy army commander / 統軍副使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0081
Label: General-in-Chief / 上將軍 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0076
Label: Grand Tutor / 太傅 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0089
Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0087
Label: Special Advancement and Acting Grand Preceptor / 特進檢校太師 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0101
Label: Central Secretariat Vice Chancellor / 中臺省右相 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:006:s0026
Title: Duke of the Ti Commandery state / 悊郡開國公 · Action: enfeoffed
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0101
Label: imprisonment for killing while drunk / 使酒殺人下獄 · Action: imprisoned
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0066
Label: pardon / 貰之 · Action: pardoned · Authority Person Id: Emperor Taizu of Liao (遼太祖)
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0066

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0066
Place: Bohai / 渤海
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0062
Place: Goryeo / 高麗 · Relation: fled-to
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0064

Learning and skills

Skill: riding and archery / 騎射 · Level: skilled
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0063

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0085, liaoshi:076:s0090, liaoshi:076:s0091, liaoshi:076:s0092

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: besieged · Place: Jin Prefecture / 晉州 · Date: Source Date: Text: 應曆2年十二月 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 952
Explicit · liaoshi:006:s0042
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Zhang Jingda (張敬達) · Place: Taiyuan / 太原 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天顯十一年九月 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0069
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: relieved-Han · Date: Source Date: Text: 應曆2年壬寅 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 952
Explicit · liaoshi:006:s0026
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: repelled-Zhou · Date: Source Date: Text: 應曆3年閏正月 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit · liaoshi:006:s0047

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: fine general who died with reputation intact · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0169
Assessment: foremost merit among more than a hundred battles · Provenance: Mode: quoted-speech · Speaker Person Id: Yaogu (堯骨)
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0075

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 6Volume 6 Annals 6: Muzong 1 · 3 passages

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壬寅，漢為周所侵，遣使求援，命中臺省右相高模翰赴之。 On renyin day, as Zhou invaded Han, Han sent envoys begging aid; the Emperor ordered Central Secretariat Vice Chancellor Gao Mohan to their relief.

十二月癸未朔，高模翰及漢兵圍晉州。 On the guiwei new moon of the twelfth month, Gao Mohan and Han forces laid siege to Jin Prefecture.

三年春閏正月壬午朔，漢以高模翰卻周軍，遣使來謝。 In the third year, on the renwu new moon of the intercalary first spring month, Han sent envoys to give thanks after Gao Mohan had driven back the Zhou army.

History of Liao, Chapter 76Volume 76 Biographies 6: Yelu Jieli, Yelu Balide, Yelu Shuogu, Yelu Lubugu, Zhao Yanshou, Gao Mohan, Zhao Siwen, Yelu Oulisi, Zhang Li · 17 passages

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耶律解裏耶律拔裏得耶律朔古耶律魯不古趙延壽高模翰趙思溫耶律漚裏思張礪 Yelu Jieli, Yelu Balide, Yelu Shuogu, Yelu Lubugu, Zhao Yanshou, Gao Mohan, Zhao Siwen, Yelu Oulisi, and Zhang Li

高模翰，一名松，渤海人。 Gao Mohan, who was also known as Song, came from Bohai.

初，太祖平渤海，模翰避地高麗，王妻以女。 When Taizu first pacified Bohai, Mohan fled to Goryeo, where the king gave him a daughter in marriage.

九月，征兵出雁門，模翰與敬達軍接戰，敗之，太原圍解。 In the ninth month the army was levied and marched out through Yanmen Pass; Mohan engaged Jingda's force, routed it, and the siege of Taiyuan was raised.

帝召模翰等賜以酒饌，親饗士卒，士氣益振。 The emperor summoned Mohan and his fellows, gave them wine and food, and personally feasted the troops, and their spirit soared.

敬達鼠竄晉安寨，模翰獻俘於帝。 Jingda scurried like a rat into Jin'an stockade; Mohan presented prisoners to the emperor.

上諭模翰曰：「朕自起兵，百餘戰，卿功第一，雖古名將無以加。」 The emperor told Mohan, "Since I first took up arms, through more than a hundred battles your merit has stood first; not even the great generals of antiquity could surpass it."

帝指模翰曰：「此國之勇將，朕統一天下，斯人之力也。」 The emperor pointed to Mohan and said, "Here is this state's bravest general; when I brought all under Heaven to heel, it was this man's doing."

模翰為統軍副使，與僧遏前驅，拔赤城，破德、貝諸寨。 Mohan served as deputy army commander; with Senge in the van he captured Chicheng and stormed the stockades at De, Bei, and elsewhere.

三月，敕虎官楊覃赴乾寧軍，為滄州節度使田武名所圍，模翰與趙延壽聚議往救。 In the third month the tiger officer Yang Tan was dispatched to Qianning army, where Cangzhou military governor Tian Wuming besieged him; Mohan and Zhao Yanshou held council and set out to relieve him.

俄有光自模翰目中出，縈繞旗矛，焰焰如流星久之。 Suddenly a light shot from Mohan's eyes, wound around the flags and spears, and blazed like a meteor for a long time.