Li Yan (李燕) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Yan as an editor and official. This record brings together 4 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	Li Yan	李燕	Li Yan
Title	Grand Master of Splendid Happiness	太常卿
Surname	Li	李	Li
Personal name	Li Yan	李燕	Li Yan
Given	Yan	燕	Yan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:031:s0002, jiuwudaishi:147:s0004

Roles

Editor
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 同光二年 · Western Year: AD 924
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:031:s0002
Source Date: Text: 四年十二月 · Western Year: AD 910
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:147:s0005
Source Date: Text: 開平三年十一月 · Western Year: AD 909
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0004

Career and standing

Label: Grand Master of Ceremonies / 太常卿 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同光二年 · Western Year: AD 924
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:031:s0002
Label: Grand Master of Splendid Happiness / 太常卿 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0004

Places and affiliations

Label: Later Liang / 梁 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:147:s0004

Works and attributed material

Work: Newly Fixed Statutes, Ordinances, Formats, and Regulations of Great Liang / 大梁新定格式律令 · Relation: compiler
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0005, jiuwudaishi:147:s0006

Events and relationships

Kind: administrative · Role: compiler · Action: revised-statutes · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平三年十一月 · Western Year: AD 909
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0004, jiuwudaishi:147:s0005
Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Xiao Qi (蕭頃)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0004
Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Wang Shan (王鄯)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0004
Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Cui Yi (崔沂)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0004
Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Cui Gao (崔誥)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0004
Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Zhang Chong (張兗)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0004

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0004

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 31Volume 31 Book of Later Tang 7: Zhuangzong Annals 5 · 2 passages

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壬寅，南郊禮儀使、太常卿李燕進太廟登歌酌獻樂舞名，懿祖室曰《昭德之舞》，獻祖室曰《文明之舞》，太祖室曰《應天之舞》，昭宗室曰《永平之舞》。 On renyin Li Yan, director of southern-suburb rites and Grand Master of Ceremonies, submitted the names of the ascent songs, libation offerings, and dances for the Imperial Ancestral Temple: for the chamber of the Honored Ancestor, 《Dance of Manifest Virtue》; for the Offered Ancestor, 《Dance of Civilizing Brilliance》; for the Grand Ancestor, 《Dance of Responding to Heaven》; and for Zhaozong, 《Dance of Eternal Peace》.

癸卯，以光祿大夫、檢校左僕射、行太常卿李燕為特進、檢校司空，依前太常卿； On guimao Li Yan became Special Counselor and acting Minister of Works while keeping the Grand Mastership;

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 147Volume 147: Treatises 9 Punishment and Law · 2 passages

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梁太祖開平三年十一月，詔太常卿李燕、御史蕭頃、中書舍人張兗、戶部侍郎崔沂、大理卿王鄯、刑部郎中崔誥，共刪定律令格式。 In the eleventh month of the third year of Kaiping, Emperor Taizu of Liang ordered Grand Master of Splendid Happiness Li Yan, Censor Xiao Qing, Secretariat Drafter Zhang Chong, Vice Minister of Revenue Cui Yi, Minister of Justice Wang Shan, and Director of the Bureau of Punishments Cui Gao to revise the statutes, ordinances, formats, and regulations together.

四年十二月，宰臣薛貽矩奏：「太常卿李燕等重刊定律令三十卷，式二十卷，格一十卷，並目錄一十三卷，律疏三十卷，凡五部一十帙，共一百三卷。 In the twelfth month of the fourth year, Chief Minister Xue Yiju reported: "Grand Master of Splendid Happiness Li Yan and his colleagues have newly printed and fixed the statutes in thirty scrolls, formats in twenty, regulations in ten, a table of contents in thirteen, and the statutory commentary in thirty—five parts in ten fascicles, one hundred and three scrolls in all.