Yuan · Scholar and Teacher

Liu Yin 劉因

Died AD 1293

Passages
26
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Yin as an official, philosopher, scholar, and teacher. This record brings together 26 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

PeriodYuan

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Liu Yin 劉因 Liu Yin
Title Duke of Rongcheng Commandery 容城郡公
Surname Liu 劉 Liu
Courtesy Mengji 夢吉 Mengji
Courtesy Mengji 夢驥 Mengji
Posthumous Wenjing 文靖 Wenjing
Given Yin 因 Yin
Alternate Yin 駰 Yin

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Official
  • Philosopher
  • Scholar
  • Teacher
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元三十年夏四月十有六日 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 30 · Western Year: AD 1293 · Place: Unknown
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0056

Age

  • Age: 45 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元三十年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 30 · Western Year: AD 1293
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0056

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 至元十九年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 19 · Western Year: AD 1282
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0027
  • Source Date: Text: 至元二十八年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 28 · Western Year: AD 1291
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0031
  • Source Date: Text: 至元三十年夏四月十有六日 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 30 · Western Year: AD 1293
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0056
  • Source Date: Text: 延祐中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1314 · End: AD 1320
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0058

Family

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  • Descendant of Liu Cong (琮)
    Kinship Term: fifth-generation ancestor / 五世祖 · Generation Distance: 5 · Line: paternal
  • Child of Liu Shu (述)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Son of Liu Yin (劉因子)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Child of Stepmother of Liu Yin (劉因繼母)
    Kinship Term: stepmother / 繼母 · Parentage: step · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Career and standing

  • Label: private teacher / 家居教授
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0023
  • Label: Gentleman for Supporting Virtue / 承德郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元十九年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 19 · Western Year: AD 1282
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0027
  • Label: Right Assistant to the Heir Apparent / 右贊善大夫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元十九年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 19 · Western Year: AD 1282
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0027
  • Label: Academician of the Hall of Gathered Worthies / 集賢學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元二十八年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 28 · Western Year: AD 1291 · Negated: true
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0031
  • Label: Academician of the Hall of Gathered Worthies / 集賢學士 · Action: declined · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元二十八年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 28 · Western Year: AD 1291
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0031
  • Label: Grand Master for Discussion of Governance / 嘉議大夫 · Action: declined · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元二十八年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 28 · Western Year: AD 1291
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0031
  • Label: Commander of the Upper Army / 上護軍 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 延祐中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1314 · End: AD 1320
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0058
  • Label: Grand Master for Fostering Goodness / 資善大夫 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 延祐中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1314 · End: AD 1320
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0058
  • Title: Duke of Rongcheng Commandery / 容城郡公 · Action: posthumously-enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 延祐中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1314 · End: AD 1320
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0058
  • Label: Hanlin Academician / 翰林學士 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 延祐中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1314 · End: AD 1320
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0058
  • Title: Wenjing / 文靖 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 延祐中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1314 · End: AD 1320
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0058

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Skill: poetry and prose / 詩文 · Level: extraordinary
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0011

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: burial · Role: organizer · Action: buried-father-and-grandfather
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0021
  • Kind: declined-appointment · Role: subject · Action: declined · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元二十八年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 28 · Western Year: AD 1291
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0031, yuanshi:171:s0055
  • Kind: mourning · Role: subject · Action: mourned-mother
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0030
  • Kind: resignation · Role: subject · Action: resigned-for-mother-illness
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0029
  • Kind: appointment · Role: appointee · Action: summoned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元十九年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 19 · Western Year: AD 1282
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0027
  • Relation: student-of · Person Id: Yan Mijian (硯彌堅)
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0013

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: extraordinary native talent · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0010
  • Assessment: would not take what was not rightfully his · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0022
  • Kind: physical-illness · Statement: frail constitution; malaria and abdominal bleeding
    Explicit · yuanshi:171:s0045, yuanshi:171:s0046

Source notes

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 171Volume 171 Biographies 58: Liu Yin, Wu Cheng · 26 passages
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世為儒家，五世祖琮生敦武校尉、臨洮府錄事判官昉，昉生奉議大夫、中山府錄事俁，俁生秉善，金貞祐中南徙。 The family had been Confucian scholars for generations. Liu Yin's fifth-generation ancestor Cong had a son Fang, who served as Dunwu Company Commander and Assistant Administrative Officer of Lintao Prefecture; Fang's son You held the rank of Grand Master for Discussion of Governance and was record keeper of Zhongshan Prefecture; You's son Bingshan moved the family south during the Jin dynasty's Zhenyou period.
因生四十三年，未嘗效尺寸之力，以報國家養育生成之德，而恩命連至，因尚敢偃蹇不出，貪高尚之名以自媚，以負我國家知遇之恩，而得罪於聖門中庸之教也哉！ I have lived forty-three years without rendering even the smallest service to repay the state's grace in nourishing and sustaining my life. Yet favor after favor has arrived, and I still dare hold back and refuse to serve, cherishing a reputation for lofty withdrawal to flatter myself—thus failing the state's kindness and offending against the doctrine of the Mean taught by the sages!
至二十一日，使者持恩命至，因初聞之，惶怖無地，不知所措，徐而思之，竊謂供職雖未能扶病而行，而恩命則不敢不扶病而拜。 On the twenty-first day the envoy arrived bearing the imperial appointment. When I first heard it I was terrified beyond measure and did not know what to do. Slowly considering the matter, I thought that although I could not travel to my post while ill, I dared not fail to rise and bow to the imperial favor despite my illness.