Guo Yin (郭愔) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Guo Yin as a bandit. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Guo Yin	郭愔	Guo Yin

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

Bandit

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 岐隴賊 · Western Year: AD 760
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:141:s0031

References in the histories

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 141Volume 141 Biographies 66: Cui, Deng, Wei, Wei, Li Han, Lu, Gao · 2 passages

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先是，岐、隴賊郭愔等掠州縣，峙五堡，光遠至，遣官喻降之。 Earlier, the Qishan and Longyou bandits Guo Yin and others had plundered prefectures and counties and held five fortified camps; when Guangyuan arrived, he sent officials to persuade them to surrender.

既而沈飲不親事，愔等陰約党項及奴剌、突厥，敗韋倫於秦、隴，殺監軍使。 Later he sank into drink and neglected affairs; Yin and the rest secretly allied with the Tangut, Nulu, and Turks, defeated Wei Lun in Qin and Long, and killed the army supervisor.