Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and Writer

Jiang Yan 江淹

Died AD 505

Passages
37
Chapters
5
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Jiang Yan as a historian, official, poet, and scholar. This record brings together 37 passages from 5 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Jiang Yan 江淹 Jiang Yan
Title Concurrent Commandant of the Guard Jiang Yan 兼衛尉江淹
Title founding Count of Linju 臨沮縣開國伯
Surname Jiang Jiang
Personal name Jiang Yan 江淹 Jiang Yan
Personal name Jiang Yan 江淹
Personal Jiang Yan 江淹
Personal Jiang Yan 江淹 Jiāng Yān
Title Marquis of Liling 醴陵侯
Courtesy name Wentong 文通 Wentong
Posthumous name Xianbo 憲伯 Xianbo
Given Yan Yan
Given name Yan Yan

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Historian
  • Official
  • Poet
  • Scholar
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

  • Date: Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 505 · Age: Value: 62 · Reckoning: sui
    Explicit · liangshu:014:s0302

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: AD 477-482 · Western Interval: Start: AD 477 · End: AD 482
    Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:048:s0062
  • Source Date: Text: Liu Huaiwei's Yongming career · Western Interval: Start: AD 483 · End: AD 491
    Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0119
  • Source Date: Text: 中興元年 · Western Year: AD 501
    Explicit · liangshu:014:s0294
  • Source Date: Text: 二子 · Western Interval: Start: c. AD 444 · End: c. AD 505
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:014:s0283, liangshu:014:s0284
  • Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 505
    Explicit · liangshu:014:s0302
  • Source Date: Text: 天監元年 · Western Year: AD 502
    Explicit · liangshu:014:s0296
  • Source Date: Text: 始江淹已爲十志 · Western Interval: Start: AD 479 · End: AD 505
    Explicit · nanqishu:060:s0002
  • Source Date: Text: 建元初 · Western Year: AD 479
    Explicit · liangshu:014:s0085
  • Source Date: Text: 昇明初 · Western Year: AD 477
    Explicit · liangshu:014:s0065
  • Source Date: Text: 東昏末 · Western Year: AD 501
    Explicit · liangshu:014:s0287
  • Source Date: Text: 永元中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 499 · End: AD 501
    Explicit · liangshu:014:s0102
  • Source Date: Text: 永明初 · Western Year: AD 483
    Explicit · liangshu:014:s0087
  • Source Date: Text: 江淹字文通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 444 · End: AD 505
    Explicit · liangshu:014:s0003
  • Source Date: Text: 義師至 · Western Year: AD 501
    Explicit · liangshu:016:s0105

Family

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  • Parent of Jiang Wei (江蒍)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological

Career and standing

  • Label: 尚書駕部郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 昇明初 · Western Year: AD 477
    Explicit · liangshu:014:s0065
  • Label: South Xuzhou staff officer / 南徐州從事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:014:s0005
  • Label: 御史中丞 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:014:s0090
  • Label: Jian'an magistrate / 建安吳興令 · Action: demoted
    Explicit · liangshu:014:s0063
  • Title: founding Count of Linju / 臨沮縣開國伯 · Action: enfeoffed · Households: 400
    Explicit · liangshu:014:s0296
  • Status: imprisonment · Action: entered
    Explicit · liangshu:014:s0007

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

Source notes

  • Statement: Addressed his sons and younger kinsmen (子弟) about knowing when to stop
    Explicit · liangshu:014:s0297

References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 14Volume 14: Jiang Yan; Ren Fang · 33 passages
Book of Liang, Chapter 16Volume 16: Wang Liang; Zhang Ji; Wang Ying · 1 passage
Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 48Volume 48 Biographies 29: Yuan Tuan, Kong Zhigui, Liu Hui · 1 passage
Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 53Volume 53 Biographies 34: Virtuous Officials · 1 passage
Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 60Preface · 1 passage