Honggu (弘古) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Honggu as an aristocrat, general, official, and royal family member. This record brings together 9 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Honggu	弘古	Hónggǔ
Given name	Honggu	弘古	Hónggǔ
Courtesy name	Hudujin	胡篤堇	Hūdújǐn
Courtesy	Penne Yin	盆訥隱	Penne Yin
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yēlǜ
Surname	Yelü	耶律	Yelü
Personal name	Yelu Honggu	耶律弘古	Yēlǜ Hónggǔ
Personal	Yelü Honggu	耶律弘古	Yelü Honggu
Title	Yuyue	於越

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:066:s0151, liaoshi:088:s0173, liaoshi:095:s0002

Roles

Aristocrat
General
Official
Royal Family Member
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died in office after reappointment
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0010
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0180

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 太平元年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1021
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0004
Source Date: Text: 統和十三年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 13 · Western Year: AD 995
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:088:s0175
Source Date: Text: 統和三十年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 30 · Western Year: AD 1012
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:088:s0178
Source Date: Text: 太平六年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1026
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0005
Source Date: Text: 統和間 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Western Interval: Start: AD 983 · End: AD 1012
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0003
Source Date: Text: 統和初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 983 · End: AD 984
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:088:s0174
Source Date: Text: 遼 · Western Interval: Start: AD 916 · End: AD 1125
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:066:s0151
Source Date: Text: 重熙六年 · Western Year: AD 1037
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0008
Source Date: Text: 重熙十二年 · Western Year: AD 1043
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0009

Family

Descendant of Yanmu (巖木)
Kinship Term: descendant of / 之後
Descendant of Khan Xianzhi (鮮質可汗)
Kinship Term: descendant / 之後
Descendant of Jundeshi (勻德實)
Kinship Term: descended from / 係出
Sibling of Huage (化哥)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: elder · Parentage: biological

Career and standing

Label: Military Commissioner of the Shunyi Army / 順義軍節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和間 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Western Interval: Start: AD 983 · End: AD 1012
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:095:s0003
Label: Northern Chancellor Linya / 北面林牙 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和間 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Western Interval: Start: AD 983 · End: AD 1012
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:095:s0003
Label: Attendant-in-Chief / 侍中 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0180
Label: Chancellor of the Southern Office / 南府宰相 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0007
Label: Detailed Commandant of Zhuala / 拽剌詳穩 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0174
Label: Garrison Commander of the Supreme Capital / 上京留守 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0007
Label: Grand Commander of armies and horses of the Shanbei Circuit / 山北道兵馬都部署 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 太平元年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1021
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0004
Label: Grand Councilor of the Secretariat / 同政事門下平章事 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 太平元年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1021
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0004
Label: Great King of the Southern Court / 南院大王 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 重熙六年 · Western Year: AD 1037
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0008
Label: Military Commissioner of the Zhangguo Army / 彰國軍節度使 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 太平元年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1021
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0004
Label: Regent of the Eastern Capital / 東京留守 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0176
Label: Texun / 惕隱 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 太平六年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1026
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0005
Label: yuyue / 于越 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:066:s0151
Label: Military Commissioner of the Wuding Army / 武定軍節度使 · Action: reappointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙十二年 · Western Year: AD 1043
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0010
Label: Military Commissioner of Nanjing / 南京統軍使 · Action: transferred
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0174
Label: Military Commissioner of the Wuding Army / 武定軍節度使 · Action: transferred · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 太平元年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1021
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0004
Title: Duke of Chu / 楚國公 · Action: enfeoffed
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0176
Title: Yuyue / 於越 · Action: granted · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 重熙十二年 · Western Year: AD 1043
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0009

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: belonged-to
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:066:s0151
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0174, liaoshi:095:s0003

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned-against · Counterpart: Zubu / 阻卜
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0006
Kind: military · Role: deputy-vanguard · Action: captured-Kang-Zhao · Other Person Ids: Yelü Pennu (耶律盆奴), Kang Zhao (康肇)
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0177
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated-enemy-at-Siyue-Bridge
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0175
Relation: blood-oath-friend-of · Person Id: Yelü Longxu (耶律隆緒)
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0007
Relation: subordinate-commander-to · Person Id: Yelü Nugua (耶律奴瓜)
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0178
Relation: recommender-of · Person Id: Yelü Maliu (耶律馬六)
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0016

References in the histories

Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.

History of Liao, Chapter 66Volume 66 Tables 4: Imperial Family · 1 passage

Open chapter

侍中化哥。于越弘古。 Huage, Palace Attendant. Honggu, yuyue.

History of Liao, Chapter 88Volume 88 Biographies 18: Xiao Dilie, Yelu Pennu, Xiao Paiya, Yelu Zizhong, Yelu Yaozhi, Yelu Honggu, Gao Zheng, Yelu Delu, Da Kangyi · 3 passages

Open chapter

耶律資忠耶律瑤質耶律弘古高正耶律的錄大康乂 Yelü Zizhong, Yelü Yaozhi, Yelü Honggu, Gao Zheng, Yelü Delu, and Da Kangyi

盆奴率耶律弘古擊破三水營，擒肇，李玄蘊等軍望風潰。 Pennu led Yelü Honggu, broke the Three Waters camp, and captured Zhao. The forces of Li Xuanyun and others fled at the sight of them.

耶律弘古，字盆訥隱，遙輦鮮質可汗之後。 Yelü Honggu, whose style name was Penne Yin, was descended from Khan Xianzhi of the Yaolian clan.

History of Liao, Chapter 95Volume 95 Biographies 25: Yelu Honggu, Yelu Maliu, Xiao Dilie, Yelu Shilu, Yelu Chenjianu, Yelu Teme, Yelu Xiantong, Xiao Susa, Yelu Dabeinu · 5 passages

Open chapter

耶律弘古耶律馬六蕭滴冽耶律適祿耶律陳家奴耶律特麼耶律仙童蕭素颯耶律大悲奴 Yelu Honggu, Yelu Maliu, Xiao Dilie, Yelu Shilu, Yelu Chenjianu, Yelu Teme, Yelu Xiantong, Xiao Susa, and Yelu Dabeinu

耶律弘古，字胡篤堇，樞密使化哥之弟。 Yelu Honggu, whose style name was Hudujin, was the younger brother of Huage, Commissioner of Military Affairs.

聖宗嘗刺臂血與弘古盟為友，禮遇尤異，拜南府宰相，改上京留守。 Emperor Shengzong once drew blood from his own arm to seal a bond of friendship with Honggu and treated him with exceptional honor. Honggu was appointed Chancellor of the Southern Office, then reassigned as Garrison Commander of the Supreme Capital.

與耶律弘古為刺血友，弘古為惕隱，薦補宿直官。 He and Yelu Honggu had sworn a blood-oath friendship; when Honggu became Texun, he recommended Maliu for appointment as a palace duty officer.

是以於耶律弘古輩諸將，不能無慨然也。 For this reason, in reading of generals such as Yelu Honggu and his peers, one cannot help feeling a deep stirring of regret.