Liu Jingyan (劉景巖)

Overview

Liu Jingyan was an official.

PeriodFive Dynasties

IdentityHistorical · Male

Roles

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Life and dates

Death

AD 948 to AD 950 是歲冬
Killed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 125, passage 166

Attested activity

AD 920 to AD 950 劉景巖…是歲冬被殺
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 125, passages 163, 166

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Parent of Wife of Gao Yunquan (高允權妻之父或母)
grandfather (via child) 祖 · paternal line
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 125, passage 163
Kin of Gao Yunquan (高允權)
wife's grandfather 妻之祖
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 125, passage 163

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 125Volume 125 Book of Later Zhou 27: Biographies 5: Lie Chuanwu, Zhao Hui, Wang Shou'en, Kong Zhijun, Wang Jihong, Feng Hui, Gao Yunquan, Zhe Congruan, Wang Rao, Sun Fangjian · 4 passages

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太子太師致仕劉景巖，允權妻之祖也，退老於州之別墅。 Liu Jingyan, a retired Grand Preceptor of the Heir Apparent, was Yunquan's wife's grandfather and lived in retirement at a villa in the prefecture.

景巖舊事高氏為牙校，亦嘗為延帥，甚得民心。 Jingyan had once served the Gao family as a military adjutant and had also been military governor of Yan. He enjoyed great popular support.

景巖以允權婚家後輩，心輕之。 Jingyan looked down on Yunquan as a junior in the family by marriage.

允權恒忌其強，是歲冬，盡殺景巖之家，收其家財萬計，以謀叛聞，朝廷不能辨。 Yunquan constantly resented his influence. That winter he slaughtered Jingyan's entire household, seized family wealth numbering in the tens of thousands, and reported it as a rebellion. The court could not determine the truth.