Khan Xianzhi (鮮質可汗)

Overview

The translated histories identify Khan Xianzhi as a clan leader, general, ruler, and tribal leader. This record brings together 5 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Khan Xianzhi	鮮質可汗	Xianzhi Kehan
Title	khan	可汗
Regnal	Khan Xianzhi	鮮質可汗	Xianzhi Kehan
Personal	Khan Xianzhi	鮮質可汗
Title	Khan Xianzhi	鮮質可汗
Title	Khan Xianzhi of the Yaolian clan	遙輦鮮質可汗
Title	Xianzhi Khan	鮮質可汗	Xiānzhì Kèhán
Personal	Xianzhi Khan	鮮質可汗

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:033:s0231, liaoshi:095:s0024
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:074:s0010

Roles

Clan Leader
General
Ruler
Tribal Leader

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 遙輦鮮質可汗 · Western Year: AD 900
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:074:s0010
Source Date: Text: 重熙初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1032 · End: AD 1033
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:091:s0072, liaoshi:091:s0073
Source Date: Text: 重熙初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1032 · End: AD 1055
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:095:s0024, liaoshi:095:s0025
Source Date: Text: 鮮質可汗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 859 · End: AD 873
Explicit · liaoshi:033:s0231, liaoshi:033:s0083

Family

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Ancestor of Yelu Jue (耶律玦)
Kinship Term: descendant / 之後 · Line: paternal
Parent of Yelu Dila (耶律敵剌)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: ruled-or-served
Explicit · liaoshi:033:s0231

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned-against-xi · Other Person Id: Tulesi (吐勒斯) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 鮮質可汗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 859 · End: AD 873
Explicit · liaoshi:033:s0231
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: captured-seven-hundred-xi-households
Explicit · liaoshi:033:s0231, liaoshi:033:s0083

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 33Volume 33 Treatises 3: Management of Guards 3 · 2 passages

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遙輦鮮質可汗討之，俘其拒敵者七百戶，摭其降者。 Khan Xianzhi of the Yaolian line campaigned against him, capturing seven hundred households of those who resisted and gathering those who surrendered.

本鮮質可汗所俘奚七百戶，太祖即位，以為十四石烈，置為部。 Originally seven hundred Xi households captured by Khan Xianzhi; when Taizu took the throne they were made fourteen shile and established as a division.

History of Liao, Chapter 74Volume 74 Biographies 4: Yelu Dila, Xiao Hendu, Kang Moji, Han Yanhui, Han Zhigu · 1 passage

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耶律敵剌，字合魯隱，遙輦鮮質可汗之子。 Yelu Dila, whose courtesy name was Heluyin, was a son of the Xianzhi Khan of the Yaolian clan.

History of Liao, Chapter 91Volume 91 Biographies 21: Yelu Hanba, Yelu Tanggu, Xiao Paizhe, Yelu Jue, Yelu Pulidu · 1 passage

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耶律玦，字吾展，遙輦鮮質可汗之後。 Yelu Jue, style name Wuzhan, was a descendant of Khan Xianzhi of the Yaolian.

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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蕭滴冽，字圖寧，遙輦鮮質可汗宮人。 Xiao Dilie, whose style name was Tuning, had been a palace attendant of Khan Xianzhi of the Yaolian clan.