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
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 江 | 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 | 淹 | Yan |
| Given name | Yan | 淹 | Yan |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleExplicit · liangshu:014:s0284, nanqishu:053:s0119
- Sex: male
- Value: maleExplicit · liangshu:014:s0003
Roles
- Historian
- Official
- Poet
- Scholar
- Writer
Life and dates
Death
- Date: Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 505 · Age: Value: 62 · Reckoning: suiExplicit · liangshu:014:s0302
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: AD 477-482 · Western Interval: Start: AD 477 · End: AD 482Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:048:s0062
- Source Date: Text: Liu Huaiwei's Yongming career · Western Interval: Start: AD 483 · End: AD 491Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0119
- Source Date: Text: 中興元年 · Western Year: AD 501Explicit · liangshu:014:s0294
- Source Date: Text: 二子 · Western Interval: Start: c. AD 444 · End: c. AD 505Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:014:s0283, liangshu:014:s0284
- Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 505Explicit · liangshu:014:s0302
- Source Date: Text: 天監元年 · Western Year: AD 502Explicit · liangshu:014:s0296
- Source Date: Text: 始江淹已爲十志 · Western Interval: Start: AD 479 · End: AD 505Explicit · nanqishu:060:s0002
- Source Date: Text: 建元初 · Western Year: AD 479Explicit · liangshu:014:s0085
- Source Date: Text: 昇明初 · Western Year: AD 477Explicit · liangshu:014:s0065
- Source Date: Text: 東昏末 · Western Year: AD 501Explicit · liangshu:014:s0287
- Source Date: Text: 永元中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 499 · End: AD 501Explicit · liangshu:014:s0102
- Source Date: Text: 永明初 · Western Year: AD 483Explicit · liangshu:014:s0087
- Source Date: Text: 江淹字文通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 444 · End: AD 505Explicit · liangshu:014:s0003
- Source Date: Text: 義師至 · Western Year: AD 501Explicit · 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 477Explicit · liangshu:014:s0065
- Label: South Xuzhou staff officer / 南徐州從事 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:014:s0005
- Label: 御史中丞 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:014:s0090
- Label: Jian'an magistrate / 建安吳興令 · Action: demotedExplicit · liangshu:014:s0063
- Title: founding Count of Linju / 臨沮縣開國伯 · Action: enfeoffed · Households: 400Explicit · liangshu:014:s0296
- Status: imprisonment · Action: enteredExplicit · liangshu:014:s0007
Places and affiliations
- Label: Liang / 梁 · Relation: servedExplicit · liangshu:014:s0296
- Label: Southern Qi / 齊 · Relation: servedExplicit · liangshu:014:s0065
- Polity Id: liu-song · Relation: servedExplicit · liangshu:014:s0005, liangshu:014:s0006
- Place: Kaocheng in Jiyang / 濟陽考城Explicit · liangshu:014:s0003
Works and attributed material
- Work: Ten Annals of Qi History / 齊史十志 · Relation: authorExplicit · liangshu:014:s0105
- Work: literary works / 二子之作 · Relation: authorExplicit · liangshu:014:s0283
- Work: ten treatises / 十志 · Relation: authorExplicit · nanqishu:060:s0002
- Work: national history / 國史 · Relation: compilerExplicit · liangshu:014:s0085, liangshu:014:s0087
- Explicit · liangshu:014:s0008, liangshu:014:s0009, liangshu:014:s0010, liangshu:014:s0011, liangshu:014:s0012, liangshu:014:s0013, liangshu:014:s0014, liangshu:014:s0015, liangshu:014:s0016, liangshu:014:s0017, liangshu:014:s0018, liangshu:014:s0019, liangshu:014:s0020, liangshu:014:s0021, liangshu:014:s0022, liangshu:014:s0023, liangshu:014:s0024, liangshu:014:s0025, liangshu:014:s0026, liangshu:014:s0027, liangshu:014:s0028, liangshu:014:s0029, liangshu:014:s0030, liangshu:014:s0031, liangshu:014:s0032, liangshu:014:s0033, liangshu:014:s0034, liangshu:014:s0035, liangshu:014:s0036, liangshu:014:s0037, liangshu:014:s0038, liangshu:014:s0039, liangshu:014:s0040, liangshu:014:s0041, liangshu:014:s0042, liangshu:014:s0043, liangshu:014:s0044, liangshu:014:s0045, liangshu:014:s0046, liangshu:014:s0047, liangshu:014:s0048, liangshu:014:s0049, liangshu:014:s0050
- Kind: speech · Role: speakerExplicit · liangshu:014:s0297, liangshu:014:s0300
Events and relationships
- Kind: scholarly · Role: author · Action: drafted ten treatises for a Qi historyExplicit · nanqishu:060:s0002
- Explicit · liangshu:014:s0094
- Explicit · liangshu:014:s0102
- Explicit · liangshu:014:s0051
- Relation: retainer-of · Person Id: Liu Jingsu (劉景素)Explicit · liangshu:014:s0006, liangshu:014:s0053
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: could hold stillness within; ended in name and rank · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Yao Cha (姚察)Explicit · liangshu:014:s0284
- Assessment: foreknowing, enabling final high rank and gifts · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Yao Cha (姚察)Explicit · liangshu:014:s0285
- Assessment: stern unmatched censor · Provenance: Mode: named-person-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Xiao Luan (蕭鸞)Explicit · liangshu:014:s0097
- Assessment: talent spent in old age · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · liangshu:014:s0104
Source notes
- Statement: Addressed his sons and younger kinsmen (子弟) about knowing when to stopExplicit · liangshu:014:s0297
References in the histories
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