Five Dynasties · Official and Statesman

Han Yanhui 韓延徽

Died AD 959

Passages
21
Chapters
4
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Han Yanhui as a diplomat, general, official, and statesman. This record brings together 21 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Han Yanhui 韓延徽 Han Yanhui
Courtesy Cangming 藏明 Cángmíng
Surname Han 韓
Surname Han 韓 Hán
Personal name Han Yanhui 韓延徽 Hán Yánhuī
Personal Han Yanhui 韓延徽 Hán Yánhuī
Personal name Han Yanhui 延徽 Yánhuī
Alternate Xialie 匣列 Xiáliè
Given Yanhui 延徽 Yánhuī
Personal name Yanhui 延徽 Yánhuī

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Diplomat
  • General
  • Official
  • Statesman
  • Strategist

Life and dates

Death

  • Age: 78 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 應歷九年 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 959
    Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0074

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 應歷九年 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 959
    Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0072, liaoshi:074:s0074
  • Source Date: Text: 應歷中 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Western Interval: Start: AD 951 · End: AD 969
    Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0072
  • Source Date: Text: 世宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 947 · End: AD 951
    Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0070
  • Source Date: Text: 天祿五年六月 · Western Year: AD 951
    Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0071
  • Source Date: Text: 天贊四年 · Western Year: AD 925
    Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0064
  • Source Date: Text: 天顯元年 · Western Year: AD 926
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0156
  • Source Date: Text: 太宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 947
    Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0068
  • Source Date: Text: 太祖任韓延徽 · Western Interval: Start: AD 907 · End: AD 926
    Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0069
  • Source Date: Text: 太祖朝 · Western Year: AD 916
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:074:s0045, liaoshi:074:s0047
  • Source Date: Text: 神冊初元 · Western Year: AD 916
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:075:s0128, liaoshi:075:s0131

Family

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Career and standing

  • Label: fiscal adviser / 制國用者
    Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0069
  • Label: acting governance director / 守政事令 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0063
  • Label: Chongwen Hall grand academician / 崇文館大學士 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0063
  • Label: Left Vice Director / 左僕射 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0065
  • Label: literary instructor at Youdu / 幽都府文學 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0044
  • Label: Nanjing three bureaus commissioner / 南京三司使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0069
  • Label: Southern chancellor / 南府宰相 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0070
  • Label: Youzhou observation revenue commissioner / 幽州觀察度支使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0044
  • Label: Left Vice Director (Left Pushe) / 左僕射 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:002:s0156
  • Label: Director of State Affairs / 尚書令 · Action: posthumously-granted
    Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0075
  • Label: founding merit minister / 佐命功臣 · Action: ranked
    Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0081
  • Title: Duke of Lu / 魯國公 · Action: enfeoffed
    Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0068
  • Status: retired · Action: entered
    Explicit · liaoshi:074:s0072

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: established institutions and laws · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:075:s0131

Source notes

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 2Volume 2 Annals 2: Taizu 2 · 1 passage
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History of Liao, Chapter 59Volume 59 Treatises 29: Finance and Economics 1 · 1 passage
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History of Liao, Chapter 74Volume 74 Biographies 4: Yelu Dila, Xiao Hendu, Kang Moji, Han Yanhui, Han Zhigu · 18 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 75Volume 75 Biographies 5: Yelu Dilie, Yelu Duozhen, Wang Yu, Yelu Tulujiong · 1 passage
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若默記治獄不冤，頗德持論不撓，延徽立經陳紀，紹勛秉節而死，圖魯窘料敵制勝，豈器博者無近用，道長者其功遠歟？ Consider Kang Moji, who judged cases without injustice; Pode, who held to his principles without yielding; Han Yanhui, who established institutions and set forth the laws; Shaoxun, who died holding to his integrity; and Tulujiong, who read the enemy and secured victory—are men of broad talent useless in the present, and men of far-reaching vision rewarded only in the long run?