Five Dynasties · Envoy and Family Member

Gao Qian 高乾

Attested AD 943 - AD 961

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Gao Qian was an envoy and Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 943 to AD 961 五代時
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 289, passages 2, 4-6

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Gao Ba (高霸)
father 父 · paternal line
Strongly inferred · History of Song 289, passage 2
Parent of Gao Qiong (高瓊)
father 父 · paternal line
Directly stated · History of Song 289, passage 2

Kinship Role sons · Count 3
Directly stated · History of Song 289, passage 6

Career and standing

Entered
AD 943 to AD 961 五代時 · Detained · At Haozhou 濠州
Directly stated · History of Song 289, passage 5

Places and affiliations

At Yan 燕 · Relation Ancestral origin
Directly stated · History of Song 289, passages 1-2
At Haozhou 濠州 · Relation Detained at
Directly stated · History of Song 289, passages 5-6
At Mengcheng, Bozhou 亳州之蒙城 · Relation Granted land at
Directly stated · History of Song 289, passage 6

Events and relationships

Accompanied
AD 943 to AD 961 五代時 · Diplomatic · Attendant · With Gao Ba (高霸)
Directly stated · History of Song 289, passage 4
Returned with clan
Migration · Leader · At Central Court 中朝
Directly stated · History of Song 289, passage 6

References in the histories

History of Song, Chapter 289Volume 289 Biographies 48: Gao Qiong, Fan Tingzhao, Ge Ba · 4 passages

祖霸，父乾。 His grandfather was Ba, and his father was Qian.

霸將契丹之命，以乾從行使景。 Ba was entrusted with the Khitan mission and brought Qian along as his attendant on the embassy to Li Jing.

方至江左，諜間北使與中夏構隙，以紓疆場之難，遂殺霸，居乾濠州，聲言為汴人所殺。 When they had just reached the south, spies exploited tensions between the northern envoys and the Central State to relieve frontier pressure. Ba was killed, Qian was detained in Haozhou, and it was publicly declared that the envoy had been murdered by men from Bian.

乾在濠州生三子，以江左蹙弱，尋挈族歸中朝，給田亳州之蒙城，因土著焉。 While detained in Haozhou, Qian had three sons. Finding the south increasingly enfeebled, he eventually brought his entire clan back to the Central Court, received land grants in Mengcheng, Bozhou, and settled there permanently.