Huang Yan (黃儼) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Huang Yan as an eunuch. This record brings together 5 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	Huang Yan	黃儼	Huang Yan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

Eunuch

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 十年 · Western Year: AD 1412
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:008:s0033
Source Date: Text: 宦寺黃儼等 · Western Year: AD 1399
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:008:s0020
Source Date: Text: 明年 · Western Year: AD 1418
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:008:s0035

Career and standing

Status: executed · Action: executed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 事覺伏誅 · Western Year: AD 1418
Explicit · mingshi:008:s0037
Status: imprisoned · Action: imprisoned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十年 · Western Year: AD 1412
Explicit · mingshi:008:s0033

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: conspirator · Action: plotted to install Gao Sui · Other Person Id: Zhu Gaosui (朱高燧)
Explicit · mingshi:008:s0037
Relation: ally-of · Person Id: Zhu Gaosui (朱高燧)
Explicit · mingshi:008:s0020

References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 8Volume 8 Annals 8: Renzong · 5 passages

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而高煦從軍有功，宦寺黃儼等復党高燧，陰謀奪嫡，譖世子。 Gao Xu had campaigned with distinction; the eunuch Huang Yan and his faction backed Gao Sui, scheming in secret to supplant the heir and traducing him at court.

而儼先潛報成祖曰：「世子與朝廷通，使者至矣。」 Huang Yan had already whispered to Chengzu, "The heir is in league with the court—the envoy has arrived."

十年，北征還，以太子遣使後期，且書奏失辭，悉徵宮僚黃儼等下獄。 In Yongle 10, on returning from the north, Chengzu blamed the heir's late dispatch of envoys and lapses in memorial wording and threw Huang Yan and the rest of the household staff into prison.

明年，黃儼等復譖太子擅赦罪人，宮僚多坐死者。 The following year Huang Yan's party accused the heir of unauthorized amnesties, and many of his attendants were executed.

其後黃儼等謀立高燧，事覺伏誅，高燧以太子力解得免，自是太子始安。 Later Huang Yan's group tried to place Gao Sui on the throne; the plot was uncovered and they were put to death; Gao Sui was spared only because the heir pleaded for him, and at last the crown prince could rest secure.