Huage (化哥) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Huage as an aristocrat, envoy, family member, and general. This record brings together 19 passages from 6 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Huage	化哥	Huàgē
Title	Commissioner of Military Affairs	樞密使
Courtesy name	Hongyin	弘隱	Hóngyǐn
Given	Huage	化哥	Huàgē
Personal name	Huage	化哥	Huàgē
Title	Prince of Bin	豳王
Title	Tiyin Huage	惕隱化哥
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yelu
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yēlǜ
Personal name	Yelu Huage	耶律化哥	Yelu Huage
Personal name	Yelu Huage	耶律化哥	Yēlǜ Huàgē

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:009:s0040, liaoshi:095:s0002
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:012:s0055, liaoshi:014:s0149, liaoshi:094:s0077
Value: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:093:s0120

Roles

Aristocrat
Envoy
Family Member
General
Military Officer
Official
Statesman
Tribal Leader

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died in office/after appointment / 卒
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0094

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾亨元年 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 979
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:009:s0040
Source Date: Text: 乾亨初 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 979
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:094:s0079
Source Date: Text: 十六年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 16 · Western Year: AD 998
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0082
Source Date: Text: 二年 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 980
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:009:s0081
Source Date: Text: 開泰二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1013
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:093:s0120, liaoshi:093:s0117
Source Date: Text: 統和23年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 23 · Western Year: AD 1005
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0149
Source Date: Text: 統和四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0080
Source Date: Text: 統和六年九月丙申 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 988
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:012:s0055
Source Date: Text: 統和間 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Western Interval: Start: AD 983 · End: AD 1012
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:095:s0002, liaoshi:095:s0003
Source Date: Text: 開泰元年 · Western Year: AD 1012
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0083

Family

Descendant of Mengfu Prince of Chu (孟父楚國王)
Kinship Term: ancestor of / 之後 · Line: paternal
Kinship Term: descendant of / 之後 · Line: paternal
Sibling of Honggu (弘古)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: elder · Parentage: biological

Origins and identity

Lineage: descendant of the Mengfu Prince of Chu / 孟父楚國王之後 · Ancestor Person Id: Mengfu Prince of Chu (孟父楚國王)
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0077

Career and standing

Label: garrison commander of the Supreme Capital / 上京留守 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0081
Label: secretary of the Northern Court / 北院林牙 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 乾亨初 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 979
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:094:s0079
Label: Southern Court Great King / 南院大王 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:014:s0149
Label: vice director with nominal Datong army military commissioner / 侍中遙領大同軍節度使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0094
Label: Grand Commandant / 太尉 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二年 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 980
Explicit · liaoshi:009:s0081
Label: Commissioner of Military Affairs / 樞密使 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0002
Label: tiyin / 惕隱 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:014:s0149
Label: northern great king / 北院大王 · Action: promoted
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0081
Label: southern great king / 南院大王 · Action: promoted
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0082
Label: northern privy council director / 北院樞密使 · Action: transferred
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0082
Title: Prince of Bin / 豳王 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開泰元年 · Western Year: AD 1012
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:094:s0084, liaoshi:094:s0083
Status: surrender · Action: submitted
Explicit · liaoshi:009:s0040
Status: stripped-of-princely-title · Action: punished · Label: stripped of princely rank / 削王爵
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0093

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:009:s0040, liaoshi:009:s0081, liaoshi:014:s0149, liaoshi:094:s0079, liaoshi:095:s0002
Place: Supreme Capital / 上京 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0081

Learning and skills

Skill: mounted archery / 騎射 · Level: renowned
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0078

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: addressee · Other Person Id: Li (裏)
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0089, liaoshi:094:s0090

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned-against-Zubu · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開泰元年 · Western Year: AD 1012
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0083
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: captured-spy-and-secured-Ping · Place: Ping Prefecture / 平州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0080
Kind: military · Role: vanguard · Action: defeated-enemy · Place: Suicheng / 遂城 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十六年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 16 · Western Year: AD 998
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0082
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: plundered-Aslan-Uyghurs · Place: Babelie / 白拔烈
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0088
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: presented-Tangut-captives · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二年 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 980
Explicit · liaoshi:009:s0081
Kind: diplomatic · Role: tribute-bearer · Action: presented-tribute
Explicit · liaoshi:012:s0055
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: remanged-western-frontier
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0085, liaoshi:094:s0086, liaoshi:094:s0087
Kind: political · Role: actor · Action: returned-captives
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0091

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: commended-by-emperor · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0084
Assessment: prized-captives-and-lost-frontier-allegiance · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0075

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · liaoshi:014:s0149

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 9Volume 9 Annals 9: Jingzong 2 · 2 passages

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三月辛巳，速撒遣人以別部化哥等降，納之。 On xinsi day in the third month Susa reported that Huage and other chiefs of a detached division had submitted, and they were received.

三月丁亥，西南面招討副使耶律王六、太尉化哥遣人獻党項俘。 On dinghai day in the third month Southwest Route pacification vice-commissioner Yelü Wangliu and Grand Commandant Huage sent men with Tangut prisoners.

History of Liao, Chapter 12Volume 12 Annals 12: Shengzong 3 · 1 passage

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九月丙申，化哥與朮不姑舂古裏來貢。 On bingshen day of the ninth month Huage, Zhubugu, and Chunguli sent tribute.

History of Liao, Chapter 14Volume 14 Annals 14: Shengzong 5 · 1 passage

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以惕隱化哥為南院大王，行軍都監老君奴為惕隱。 Tiyin Huage was appointed Southern Court Great King, and mobile army supervisor Laojunnu was appointed tiyin.

History of Liao, Chapter 93Volume 93 Biographies 23: Xiao Hui, Xiao Yulu, Xiao Tuyu, Yelu Duozhen · 1 passage

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明年，北院樞密使耶律化哥引兵來救，圖玉遣人誘諸部皆降。 The following year Northern Court privy councilor Yelu Huage marched to relieve him; Tuyu sent envoys to win over the tribes, and all surrendered.

History of Liao, Chapter 94Volume 94 Biographies 24: Yelu Huage, Yelu Wola, Yelu Susa, Xiao Aludai, Yelu Naye, Yelu Helusaogu, Yelu Shiliang · 13 passages

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耶律化哥耶律斡臘耶律速撒蕭阿魯帶耶律那也耶律何魯掃古耶律世良 Yelu Huage, Yelu Wola, Yelu Susa, Xiao Aludai, Yelu Naye, Yelu Helusaogu, and Yelu Shiliang.

耶律化哥，字弘隱，孟父楚國王之後。 Yelu Huage, whose courtesy name was Hongyin, was a descendant of the Mengfu Prince of Chu.

統和四年，南侵宋，化哥擒諜者，知敵由海路來襲，即先據平州要地。 In Tonghe 4, during a southern campaign against Song, Huage captured a spy, learned the enemy would strike by sea, and at once seized the key positions around Ping Prefecture.

開泰元年，伐阻卜，阻卜棄輜重遁走，俘獲甚多。 In Kaitai 1, on campaign against the Zubu, the Zubu abandoned their baggage train and fled, and Huage took a great haul of captives and booty.

帝嘉之，封豳王。 The emperor praised him and enfeoffed him as Prince of Bin.

後邊吏奏，自化哥還闕，糧乏馬弱，勢不可守，上復遣化哥經略西境。 Later frontier officials reported that after Huage returned to court, supplies ran short, horses were weakened, and the frontier could not be held; the emperor sent Huage back to manage the western border.

化哥與邊將深入，聞蕃部逆命，居翼只水，化哥徐以兵進。 Huage marched deep into the frontier with border generals; learning that rebel tribes were encamped on the Yizhi River, he advanced his army at a measured pace.

都監裏繼至，謂化哥曰：「君誤矣！ Chief overseer Li arrived and told Huage, "My lord is mistaken!

化哥悉還所俘。 Huage returned all the captives.

時邊部拒命，詔北院樞密使耶律化哥將兵，以世良為都監，往禦之。 When frontier tribes defied orders, the court ordered the northern privy council director Yelu Huage to take the field, with Shiliang as chief overseer, to repel them.

明年，化哥還，將罷兵，世良上書曰：「化哥以為無事而還，不思師老糧乏，敵人已去，焉能久守？ The following year Huage returned and was about to disband the army; Shiliang memorialized, "Huage thinks all is well and comes home, heedless of our weary troops and empty stores; the enemy has only withdrawn—how can they be held at bay for long?

帝即命化哥益兵，與世良追之。 The emperor at once ordered Huage to add troops and pursue with Shiliang.

化哥利俘獲，而諸蕃不附，何魯掃古誤擊磨古斯，而阻卜叛命，是皆喜於一旦之功，而不圖後日之患，庸何議焉。 Huage prized captives while the frontier tribes would not attach themselves; Helusaogu struck Mogusi by mistake and the Zubu rebelled—these men rejoiced in a single day's gain and gave no thought to tomorrow's trouble; what is there to commend?

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 · 1 passage

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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.