Liu Yan (劉晏) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Yan as an administrator and official. This record brings together 7 passages from 5 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liu Yan	劉晏	Liu Yan
Surname	Liu	劉	Liu
Personal name	Liu Yan	劉晏	Liú Yàn
Personal name	Liu Yan	劉晏	Liu Yan
Title	Transport Commissioner	轉運使	Zhuanyun shi
Given	Yan	晏	Yan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · xintangshu:051:s0158, xintangshu:172:s0195
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xintangshu:052:s0197, xintangshu:161:s0124

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 劉晏領使時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 760 · End: AD 780
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:052:s0197
Source Date: Text: 唐代本傳敘事 · Western Interval: Start: c. AD 755 · End: c. AD 858
Explicit · xintangshu:172:s0195
Source Date: Text: 大歷中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 766 · End: AD 779
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:161:s0124
Source Date: Text: 永泰二年 · Western Year: AD 766
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:051:s0157, xintangshu:051:s0158
Source Date: Text: 經紀其家 · Western Year: AD 762
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:141:s0065

Career and standing

Label: Transport Commissioner / 轉運使 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永泰二年 · Western Year: AD 766
Explicit · xintangshu:051:s0158
Label: salt-iron commissioner / 鹽鐵使 · Action: held
Explicit · xintangshu:052:s0197

Places and affiliations

Polity: Tang / 唐 · Relation: served
Explicit · xintangshu:051:s0158

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: subject · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Wang Bo (王播)
Explicit · xintangshu:052:s0197

Events and relationships

Kind: fiscal · Role: commissioner · Action: led-eastern-circuits · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永泰二年 · Western Year: AD 766
Explicit · xintangshu:051:s0158
Kind: personal · Role: patron · Action: married off Jingshan orphaned daughter · Other Person Id: Orphaned daughter of Deng Jingshan
Explicit · xintangshu:141:s0065
Kind: administrative · Role: commissioner · Action: personally audited zu and yong to know prefectural fiscal conditions
Explicit · xintangshu:052:s0197

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · xintangshu:051:s0158, xintangshu:172:s0195

References in the histories

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 51Volume 51 Treatises 47: Finance and Economics 1 · 2 passages

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東都畿內、河南、淮南、江東西、湖南、荊南、山南東道，以轉運使劉晏領之； The eastern circuits—including the capital region, Henan, Huainan, and the lower Yangzi—fell to Transport Commissioner Liu Yan;

及琦貶，以戶部侍郎、判度支韓滉與晏分治。 After Qi's demotion, Han Huang as vice minister of revenue shared fiscal duties with Yan.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 52Volume 52 Treatises 48: Finance and Economics 2 · 1 passage

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鹽鐵使王播言：「劉晏領使時，自按租庸，然後知州縣錢穀利病虛實。」 Wang Bo said: "When Liu Yan headed the commission, he audited zu and yong himself to learn each prefecture's true fiscal condition."

New Book of Tang, Chapter 141Volume 141 Biographies 66: Cui, Deng, Wei, Wei, Li Han, Lu, Gao · 1 passage

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景山與劉晏善，其後家寒窶，晏屢經紀之，嫁其孤女。 Jingshan was friendly with Liu Yan; afterward his family was poor and needy, and Yan repeatedly managed affairs for him and married off his orphaned daughter.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 161Volume 161 Biographies 86: Zhang, Zhao, Li, Zheng, Xu, Wang, Feng, Yu · 1 passage

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大歷中，劉晏表為校書郎。 In the Dali era Liu Yan memorialized him as collator.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 172Volume 172 Biographies 97: Yu, Wang, Two Du's, Fan · 2 passages

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元載得罪，亞與劉晏等劾治。 When Yuan Zai was brought down, Ya stood with Liu Yan and others to impeach and try him.

劉晏抵罪，貶睦州刺史。 When Liu Yan fell, Ya was demoted to prefect of Muzhou.