Huangfu Hui (皇甫暉)

Overview

The translated histories identify Huangfu Hui as a general, military officer, official, and rebel. This record brings together 15 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Huangfu Hui	皇甫暉	Huangfu Hui
Alternate name	Fuhui	暉
Personal name	Huang Fuhui	皇甫暉
Surname	Huangfu	皇甫	Huangfu
Surname	Huangfu	皇甫
Given name	Hui	暉

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

General
Military Officer
Official
Rebel
Soldier

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died of wounds days after audience · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 周師征淮後 · Western Year: AD 956
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 周師征淮 · Western Year: AD 956
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Source Date: Text: 唐莊宗 · Western Year: AD 923
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Source Date: Text: 天福中 · Western Year: AD 937
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Source Date: Text: 契丹滅晉 · Western Year: AD 947
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Source Date: Text: 戍卒皇甫暉聞之 · Western Year: AD 926
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Source Date: Text: 明宗 · Western Year: AD 926
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Career and standing

Label: Wei soldier / 魏軍卒
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Label: prefect of Chen / 陳州刺史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明宗 · Western Year: AD 926
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Label: commander of horse and foot / 馬步軍都指揮使 · Action: appointed
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Label: military commissioner of Fenghua / 奉化軍節度使 · Action: appointed
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Label: northern relief commissioner / 北面行營應援使 · Action: appointed
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Label: prefect of Mi / 密州刺史 · Action: appointed
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Label: prefect of She / 歙州刺史 · Action: appointed
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Label: guard general / 衛將軍 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天福中 · Western Year: AD 937
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Status: captivity · Action: entered
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Status: killed · Action: executed · Other Person Id: Yang Rencheng (楊仁晟)
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Southern Tang / 江南 · Relation: served
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Place: Weizhou / 魏州
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Place: Beizhou / 貝州 · Relation: from
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Place: Jiang prefecture / 江州 · Relation: stationed-at
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Place: Waqiao Pass / 瓦橋關 · Relation: garrisoned-at
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Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Other Person Id: Zhao Zaili (趙在禮)
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Other Person Id: Yang Rencheng (楊仁晟)
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated-and-captured · Place: Qingliu Pass / 清流關 · Other Person Id: Yao Feng (姚鳳)
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Kind: extortion · Role: demander · Action: extorted-goods · Other Person Id: Zhao Zaili (趙在禮)
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Kind: flight · Role: leader · Action: fled-south · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 契丹滅晉 · Western Year: AD 947
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Kind: military · Role: instigator · Action: forced-zhao-zaili-to-rebel · Other Person Id: Zhao Zaili (趙在禮) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 戍卒皇甫暉聞之 · Western Year: AD 926
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Kind: atrocity · Role: perpetrator · Action: massacred-households-for-surname-puns · Place: Wei / 魏
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Kind: political · Role: conspirator · Action: plotted-with · Other Person Id: Zhao Zaili (趙在禮)
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Kind: mutiny · Role: leader · Action: seized-commander · Other Person Id: Yang Rencheng (楊仁晟) · Place: Bei / 貝州
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Relation: joined · Person Id: Zhao Zaili (趙在禮)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: fierce and lawless · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Assessment: Zhuangzong’s disaster began with him · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Kind: physical-description · Statement: body covered with golden wounds
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Item: gold belt and saddle horse / 金帶、鞍馬 · Relation: bestowed · Other Person Id: Emperor Shizong (世宗)
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Source notes

Historicity: historical
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References in the histories

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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 37Volume 37 Biographies 17: · 1 passage

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戍卒皇甫暉聞之，由此劫趙在禮作亂。 Garrison soldier Huangfu Hui heard it and forced Zhao Zaili into revolt.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 49Volume 49 Miscellaneous Biographies 29: Di Guangye, Feng Hui, Huang Fuhui, Tang Jingsi, Wang Jin, Chang Si, Sun Fangjian · 14 passages

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皇甫暉 Huang Fuhui

皇甫暉，魏州人也。 Huang Fuhui came from Weizhou.

暉為人驍勇無賴，夜博軍中，不勝，乃與其徒謀為亂，劫其部將楊仁晟曰：「唐能破梁而得天下者，以先得魏而盡有河北兵也。 Fuhui was brutal and reckless. He gambled in camp at night, lost, and with his mates plotted mutiny. They seized their officer Yang Rencheng and said: "Tang broke Liang because it took Wei first and held all Hebei arms.

軍士知不可強，遂斬之，推一小校為主，不從，又斬之，乃攜二首以詣裨將趙在禮，在禮從之，乃夜焚貝州以入於魏，在禮以暉為馬步軍都指揮使。 The soldiers knew they could not force him, so they beheaded him; they pushed a junior officer to be leader, he refused, and they beheaded him too. Carrying the two heads they went to deputy Zhao Zaili; Zaili followed them. That night they burned Bei and entered Wei; Zaili made Fuhui horse-and-foot commander.

暉擁甲士數百騎，大掠城中，至一民家，問其姓，曰：「姓國。」 Fuhui led hundreds of armored horse and plundered the city. At one house he asked the surname; they said: "Guo."

暉曰：「吾當破國！」 Fuhui said: "I shall ruin the state!"

暉曰：「吾殺萬家足矣。」 Fuhui said: "Slaying ten thousand houses is enough."

及明宗入魏，遂與在禮合謀，莊宗之禍自暉始。 When Mingzong entered Wei, Fuhui plotted on with Zaili, and Zhuangzong’s ruin began with Fuhui.

明宗即位，暉自軍卒擢拜陳州刺史，終唐世常為刺史。 Mingzong raised him from the ranks to prefect of Chen, and through Tang he often held a prefecture.

在禮已秉旄節，罷鎮來朝，暉往候之曰：「與公俱起甘陵，卒成大事，然由我發也，公今富貴，能恤我乎？ Zaili already held a commission and came to court on leave. Fuhui visited him: "We rose at Ganling and finished the great work, but I lit the fuse. You are rich now—will you spare me?

在禮懼，遽出器幣數千與之，而飲以酒，暉飲自若，不謝而去。 Zaili feared him, brought out thousands in goods at once, and poured wine. Fuhui drank easy and left without thanks.

契丹犯闕，暉率其州人奔於江南，李景以為歙州刺史、奉化軍節度使，鎮江州。 When the Khitan took the capital, Fuhui fled south with his prefecture. Li Jing made him prefect of She and commissioner of Fenghua at Jiang.

周師征淮，景以暉為北面行營應援使，屯清流關，為周師所敗，並其都監姚鳳皆被擒。 Zhou marched on the Huai. Jing named Fuhui northern relief commissioner and posted him at Qingliu Pass. Zhou broke him and took him with his overseer Yao Feng.

世宗召見，暉金瘡被體，哀之，賜以金帶、鞍馬，後數日卒。 Shizong called him in. Golden wounds covered him; Shizong pitied him, gave belt and horse, and he died days later.