Liu Yanlang (劉延朗)

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Yanlang as a courtier and official. This record brings together 13 passages from 7 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liu Yanlang	劉延朗	Liu Yanlang
Personal name	Liu Yanlang	劉延朗	Liu Yanlang
Given name	Yanlang	延朗	Yanlang
Given	Yanlang	延朗	Yanlang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:065:s0138, jiuwudaishi:069:s0213
Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:096:s0205, xinwudaishi:007:s0055, xinwudaishi:016:s0024
Value: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0044

Roles

Courtier
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: executed · Authority Person Id: Gaozu of Jin (晉高祖) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天福元年甲申 · Western Year: AD 936
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Manner: captured and killed / 捕而殺之 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 晉高祖入洛 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:069:s0223

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: AD 934 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:065:s0138
Source Date: Text: AD 936 · Western Year: AD 936
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Source Date: Text: 五月丙午 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:007:s0055
Source Date: Text: 晉高祖入洛 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:069:s0221, jiuwudaishi:069:s0223
Source Date: Text: 末帝朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 934 · End: AD 936
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:096:s0204, jiuwudaishi:096:s0205
Source Date: Text: 清泰初 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:069:s0218
Source Date: Text: 石敬瑭反 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:016:s0024, xinwudaishi:016:s0023
Source Date: Text: 紀年語境（天福1年） · Western Year: AD 936
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Career and standing

Status: powerful-court-favorite · Action: active
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:096:s0205

Places and affiliations

Place: Yucheng in Songzhou / 宋州虞城
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:069:s0213

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:069:s0221

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: pressurer · Action: pressed-emperor-to-march · Other Person Id: Li Congke (李從珂)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:016:s0024

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: foolish darkness · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:069:s0222

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 65Volume 65 Book of Later Tang 41: Biographies 17: Li Jianji, Shi Junli, Gao Xinggui, Zhang Tingyu, Wang Sitong, Suo Zitong · 3 passages

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潞王欲用之，而楊思權之徒恥見其面，屢啟劉延朗，言「思同不可留，慮失士心。」 The prince meant to keep him, but Yang Siquan and the others could not bear to look on him. They told Liu Yanlang again and again, "Sitong must not stay or we will lose the army's loyalty."

又，潞王入長安時，尹暉盡得思同家財及諸妓女，故尤惡思同，與劉延朗亟言之。 When the prince entered Chang'an, Yin Hui had plundered Sitong's house and his singing girls, so he hated Sitong all the more and pressed Liu Yanlang to act.

潞王怒延朗，累日嗟惜之。 The prince raged at Yanlang and mourned the deed for days.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 69Volume 69 Book of Later Tang 45: Biographies 21: Zhang Xian, Wang Zhengyan, Hu Zhuang, Cui Yisun, Meng Hu, Sun Yue, Zhang Yanlang, Liu Yanhao, Liu Yanlang · 5 passages

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劉延朗，宋州虞城人也。 Liu Yanlang was a native of Yucheng in Songzhou.

末帝將圖起義，為捍禦之備，延朗計公私粟帛，以贍其急。 When the Last Emperor was planning to raise an uprising and made preparations for defense, Yanlang calculated public and private grain and cloth to supply the urgent need.

時房皓為樞密使，但高枕閑眠，啟奏除授，一歸延朗，由是得志。 At that time Fang Hao was commissioner of military affairs but only rested his head high and slept at leisure; memorials for appointments and dismissals all went to Yanlang, and thereby he got his way.

凡藩侯郡牧，自外入者，必先賂延朗，後議進貢，賂厚者先居內地，賂薄者晚出邊藩，故諸將屢有怨訕，末帝不能察之。 Whenever frontier lords and prefects came in from outside, they had first to bribe Yanlang and only afterward discuss advancing tribute; those who bribed heavily were first placed in inner territories, those who bribed lightly were sent out late to border commands—therefore the generals often had resentful complaints, which the Last Emperor could not perceive.

及晉高祖入洛，延朗將竄於南山，與從者數輩，過其私第，指而歎曰：「我有錢三十萬貫聚於此，不知為何人所得。」 When the Gaozu of Jin entered Luoyang, Yanlang was about to flee into the southern mountains; with several followers he passed his private residence, pointed at it, and sighed, "I have three hundred thousand strings of cash gathered here—I do not know who will obtain it."

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 96Volume 96 Book of Later Jin 22: Biographies 11: Kong Chongbi, Chen Baoji, Wang Yu, Zhang Jizuo, Zhen Ruan, Hu Rao, Liu Suiqing, Fang Gao, Meng Chenghui, Liu Jixun, Zheng Shouyi, Cheng Xun, Li Yu, Zheng Xuansu, Ma Zhongji, Chen Xuan · 1 passage

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時薛文遇、劉延朗之徒居中用事，暠雖處密地，其聽用之言，十不得三四，但隨勢可否，不為事先。 At that time Xue Wenyü, Liu Yanlang, and their like held sway at court. Though Gao sat in the innermost councils, only three or four of every ten words he spoke were heeded; he merely assented or demurred as the tide flowed, never taking the lead.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 7Volume 7 Later Tang Annals 4: Deposed Emperors · 1 passage

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五月丙午，端明殿學士、左諫議大夫韓昭胤為樞密使，莊宅使劉延朗為樞密副使。 On bingwu of the fifth month Han Zhaoyin, academician of the Duanming Hall and Left Remonstrance counsellor, became Bureau Military Affairs commissioner, with manor commissioner Liu Yanlang as deputy.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 8Volume 8 Later Jin Annals 1: Gaozu · 1 passage

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甲申，大赦，殺張延朗、劉延朗，赦房暠。 On jiashen came a general amnesty. Zhang Yanlang and Liu Yanlang were put to death; Fang Hao was spared.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 16Volume 16: Family of the Tang Deposed Emperor · 1 passage

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廢帝心憚敬瑭，初不欲往，聞重美言，以為然，而劉延皓與劉延朗等迫之不已，廢帝遂如河陽，留重美守京師。 The deposed emperor feared Jingtang and at first did not want to march; hearing Chongmei, he agreed, but Liu Yanhao, Liu Yanlang, and others kept pressing him, so he proceeded to Heyang and left Chongmei to hold the capital.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 26Volume 26 Later Tang Biographies 6: Fu Xi, Wu Zhen, Kong Qian, Zhang Yanlang, Li Yan, Li Renju, Mao Zhang · 1 passage

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晉兵起，廢帝欲親征，而心畏高祖，遲疑不決，延朗與劉延朗等勸帝必行。 When Jin’s armies rose, the deposed emperor meant to take the field himself—but he feared Gaozu and hung back. Yanlang, Liu Yanlang, and others pressed him to march.