Song, Liao, and Jin · Official

Han Derang 韓德讓

Hán Déràng

Attested AD 969 - AD 1012

Passages
52
Chapters
17
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Han Derang as an administrator, aristocrat, family member, and general. This record brings together 52 passages from 17 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Han Derang 韓德讓 Hán Déràng
Title Chancellor 丞相
Changed Dechang 德昌 Déchāng
Changed name Dechang 德昌 Déchāng
Given Derang 德讓 Déràng
Personal Derang 德讓 Déràng
Given name Derang 德讓 Déràng
Personal name Derang 德讓 Déràng
Title Duke of Chu 楚國公
Title Grand Chancellor 大丞相
Title Grand Chancellor Han Derang 大丞相韓德讓
Title Grand Preceptor 太師
Surname Han Hán
Surname Han
Personal Han Dechang 韓德昌 Hán Déchāng
Personal name Han Derang 韓德讓 Hán Déràng
Personal Han Derang 韓德讓
Title King of Jin 晉王
Title King of Qi 齊王
Changed Longyun 隆運 Lóngyùn
Changed name Longyun 隆運 Lóngyùn
Title Northern Chancellery commissioner 北院樞密使
Title Prince of Chu 楚王
Title Prince of Jin 晉國王
Title Prince of Jin 晉王
Title Prince of Qi 齊王
Posthumous Wenzhong 文忠 Wénzhōng
Posthumous name Wenzhong 文忠 Wénzhōng
Surname Yelu 耶律 Yēlǜ
Surname Yelü 耶律 Yelü
Surname Yelü 耶律 Yēlǜ
Changed Yelü Dechang 耶律德昌 Yēlǜ Déchāng
Personal name Yelu Longyun 耶律隆運 Yēlǜ Lóngyùn
Personal Yelü Longyun 耶律隆運 Yēlǜ Lóngyùn

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Aristocrat
  • Family Member
  • General
  • Historian
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 三年冬十一月辛卯 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 3 · Season: winter · Lunar Month: 11 · Sexagenary Day: 辛卯 · Western Year: AD 985
    Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0201
  • Source Date: Text: 乾亨元年 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 979
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:009:s0059
  • Source Date: Text: 統和元年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 983
    Explicit · liaoshi:082:s0096
  • Source Date: Text: 統和十年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 992
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:080:s0042, liaoshi:080:s0043
  • Source Date: Text: 十一年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 11 · Western Year: AD 993
  • Source Date: Text: 十二年六月 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 12 · Western Year: AD 994
  • Source Date: Text: 統和17年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 17 · Western Year: AD 999
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0254
  • Source Date: Text: 統和18年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 18 · Western Year: AD 1000
    Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0065
  • Source Date: Text: 統和19年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 19 · Western Year: AD 1001
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0017
  • Source Date: Text: 統和十九年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 19 · Western Year: AD 1001
    Explicit · liaoshi:082:s0008
  • Source Date: Text: 統和二年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 984
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:079:s0017
  • Source Date: Text: 二十二年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 22 · Western Year: AD 1004
  • Source Date: Text: 統和22年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 22 · Western Year: AD 1004
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0142
  • Source Date: Text: 統和23年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 23 · Western Year: AD 1005
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0175
  • Source Date: Text: 二十八年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 28 · Western Year: AD 1010
  • Source Date: Text: 三年 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 981
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:009:s0113
  • Source Date: Text: 清寧三年 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1057
    Explicit · liaoshi:082:s0119
  • Source Date: Text: 統和三年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 985
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:059:s0031, liaoshi:059:s0030
  • Source Date: Text: 四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
  • Source Date: Text: 統和四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:011:s0122
  • Source Date: Text: 六年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 988
  • Source Date: Text: 統和六年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 988
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:012:s0028, liaoshi:012:s0057, liaoshi:012:s0079
  • Source Date: Text: 統和七年二月 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 989
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:012:s0121
  • Source Date: Text: 九年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 991
  • Source Date: Text: 景宗 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Western Interval: Start: AD 979 · End: AD 982
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:082:s0012
  • Source Date: Text: 統和中 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Western Interval: Start: AD 983 · End: AD 1012
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:083:s0143, liaoshi:083:s0141
  • Source Date: Text: 統和中 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Western Interval: Start: AD 983 · End: AD 1012
    Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0086
  • Source Date: Text: 統和初 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Western Year: AD 983
    Explicit · liaoshi:108:s0041
  • Source Date: Text: 保寧間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 969 · End: AD 979
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:074:s0142, liaoshi:074:s0147
  • Source Date: Text: 天祚立 · Western Year: AD 1101
    Explicit · liaoshi:082:s0120
  • Source Date: Text: 景宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 969 · End: AD 982
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:086:s0037
  • Source Date: Text: 統和末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1011 · End: AD 1012
    Strongly inferred · liaoshi:094:s0054, liaoshi:094:s0057
  • Source Date: Text: 耶律隆運 · Western Interval: Start: AD 982 · End: AD 1011

Family

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  • Kin of Zhixin (制心)
    Kinship Term: nephew / 侄 · Subject Role: uncle · Object Role: nephew · Intermediary Person Ids: Han Dechong (韓德崇)
  • Parent of Aoluwo (敖魯斡)
    Kinship Term: adoptive heir / 繼 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  • Sibling of Han Dechong (韓德崇)
    Kinship Term: brother / 兄 · Shared Parentage: full
  • Child of Han Kuangsi (韓匡嗣)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 2
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Kin of Yelu (耶魯)
    Kinship Term: heir / 嗣 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: adoptive-father · Object Role: adoptive-son
  • Child of Mother of Yelu Longyun (耶律隆運母)
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Kin of Aoluwo (敖盧斡)
    Kinship Term: successor / 繼 · Parentage: adoptive
  • Kin of Dilu (滌魯)
    Kinship Term: uncle / 叔 · Subject Role: grandnephew · Object Role: granduncle
  • Kin of Unworthy son of Dilu's uncle (不肖子)
    Kinship Term: unworthy son / 不肖子 · Parentage: uncertain
  • Sibling of Han Dewei (韓德威)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: administrator of Northern Court privy affairs / 知北院樞密使事 · Action: appointed-concurrent
    Explicit · liaoshi:014:s0254
  • Label: Southern Court Commissioner of Military Affairs / 南院樞密使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 981
    Explicit · liaoshi:009:s0113
  • Label: Situ / 守司徒 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
    Explicit · liaoshi:011:s0161
  • Label: Grand Chancellor / 大丞相 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:082:s0111
  • Label: Northern Chancellery Chancellor / 北府宰相 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:082:s0104
  • Label: Shangjing Military Governor / 上京留守 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:082:s0012
  • Label: Southern Chancellery Privy Councilor / 南院樞密使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:082:s0018
  • Label: Chief Councillor / 政事令 · Action: concurrently-appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年冬十一月辛卯 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 3 · Season: winter · Lunar Month: 11 · Sexagenary Day: 辛卯 · Western Year: AD 985
    Explicit · liaoshi:010:s0201
  • Label: Chief Councillor / 政事令 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
    Explicit · liaoshi:011:s0161
  • Label: Chancellor / 宰相 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和中 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Western Interval: Start: AD 983 · End: AD 1012
    Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0086
  • Label: acting Nanjing regent / 權知南京留守事 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:009:s0059
  • Label: Commissioner of Military Affairs / 樞密使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:012:s0121
  • Label: Commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0043
  • Label: Grand Chancellor / 大丞相 · Action: held
  • Label: Grand Preceptor / 太師 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0031
  • Label: Liaoxing Army Military Commissioner / 遼興軍節度使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:009:s0113
  • Label: Northern Chancellery commissioner / 北院樞密使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0065
  • Label: Northern Court Privy Council Commissioner / 北院樞密使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:083:s0143
  • Label: northern privy council director / 北院樞密使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0054
  • Label: overseer of the Northern Chancellery / 知北院 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0015
  • Label: Minister President / 尚書令 · Action: posthumously-granted
    Explicit · liaoshi:031:s0173
  • Title: King of Chu / 楚國王 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和七年二月 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 989
    Explicit · liaoshi:012:s0121
  • Label: posthumous name Wenzhong / 謚文忠 · Action: bestowed
    Explicit · liaoshi:031:s0173
  • Label: edict of praise and reward / 賜詔褒獎 · Action: received
    Explicit · liaoshi:009:s0059
  • Title: Prince of Qi / 齊王 · Action: granted
    Explicit · liaoshi:082:s0111
  • Title: King of Qi / 齊王 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:014:s0142
  • Title: Prince of Jin / 晉國王 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:031:s0171
  • Title: King of Jin / 晉王 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · liaoshi:014:s0142
  • Title: Prince of Jin / 晉王 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · liaoshi:082:s0114
  • Status: favor · Action: enjoyed-imperial-favor
    Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0086
  • Status: removed-from-palace-register · Action: entered · Label: removed from the palace register / 出宮籍
    Explicit · liaoshi:031:s0172
  • Status: removed-from-palace-household-registry · Action: ordered
    Explicit · liaoshi:014:s0175
  • Status: illness · Action: suffered
    Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0054

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: abundant achievements as general and minister · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:082:s0090
  • Assessment: steadied morale and defended Nanjing walls · Provenance: Mode: edict
    Explicit · liaoshi:009:s0059
  • Assessment: under his oversight many Northern Chancellery duties lapsed · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0015
  • Item: burial land beside imperial tombs / 陪葬地 · Relation: bestowed
    Explicit · liaoshi:082:s0114
  • Item: funeral goods / 葬具 · Relation: bestowed · Label: state-supplied funeral goods / 官給葬具
    Explicit · liaoshi:031:s0175

Source notes

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 9Volume 9 Annals 9: Jingzong 2 · 2 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 10Volume 10 Annals 10: Shengzong 1 · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 11Volume 11 Annals 11: Shengzong 2 · 3 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 12Volume 12 Annals 12: Shengzong 3 · 4 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 14Volume 14 Annals 14: Shengzong 5 · 4 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 31Volume 31 Treatises 1: Management of Guards 1 · 3 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 59Volume 59 Treatises 29: Finance and Economics 1 · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 74Volume 74 Biographies 4: Yelu Dila, Xiao Hendu, Kang Moji, Han Yanhui, Han Zhigu · 2 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 79Volume 79 Biographies 9: Shi Fang, Yelu Xianshi, Nu Li, Guo Xi, Yelu Ameili · 2 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 80Volume 80 Biographies 10: Zhang Jian, Xing Baopu, Ma Dechen, Xiao Pu, Yelu Eight Brothers · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 81Volume 81 Biographies 11: Yelu Shilu, Wang Jizhong, Xiao Xiaozhong, Chen Zhaogun, Xiao Hezhuo · 2 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 82Volume 82 Biographies 12: Yelu Longyun, Yelu Boguzhe, Xiao Yanga, Wu Bai, Xiao Changge, Yelu Hugu · 16 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 83Volume 83 Biographies 13: Yelu Xiuge, Yelu Xiezhen, Yelu Xidi, Yelu Xuegu · 5 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 86Volume 86 Biographies 16: Yelu Hezhu, Liu Jing, Liu Liufu, Ye Luniaolu, Niu Wenshu, Du Fang, Xiao Heshang, Yelu Helizhi, Yelu Pode · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 94Volume 94 Biographies 24: Yelu Huage, Yelu Wola, Yelu Susa, Xiao Aludai, Yelu Naye, Yelu Helusaogu, Yelu Shiliang · 3 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 101Volume 101 Biographies 31: Xiao Taosuwo, Yelu Axibao, Xiao Yixue, Xiao Hudu · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 108Volume 108 Biographies 38: Divination · 1 passage