Liu Yin (劉隱) | 24 Histories

Overview

Liu Yin was a warlord and Ruler.

Life and dates

Death

AD 911 乾化元年
Age Value: 38 · Reckoning: Sui
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 27

Age

38
AD 911 乾化元年 · Reckoning Sui · At death
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 27

Attested activity

AD 909 三年
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 14
AD 911 乾化元年
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passages 26-27
AD 894 to AD 898 乾寧中
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passages 7-8
AD 908 二年
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 13
AD 905 天祐二年
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 11
AD 907 梁開平元年
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 12

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Descendant of Liu Anren (安仁)
his grandfather 其祖 · paternal line · 2 generations · Through Liu Qian (謙)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 1
Sibling of Liu Tai (台)
elder brother 兄 · Full siblings · paternal line
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 5
Child of Liu Qian (謙)
father 父 · paternal line
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 2
Sibling of Liu Yan (龑)
younger brother 弟 · Paternal half siblings · paternal line
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passages 5, 28-29

Career and standing

acting military commissioner (liuhou) 留後
Acclaimed
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 10
marching army marshal 行軍司馬
AD 894 to AD 898 乾寧中 · Appointed
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 8
military commissioner of the Jinghai Army 靜海軍節度
AD 908 二年 · Appointed
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 13
Protector-General of Annan 安南都護
AD 908 二年 · Appointed
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 13
military commissioner 節度使
AD 905 天祐二年 · Appointed
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 11
prefect of Fengzhou 封州刺史
AD 894 to AD 896 謙卒後 / 乾寧前 · Appointed
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 6

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deputy military commissioner 節度副使
Appointed
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 9
concurrent Director of the Secretariat 兼中書令
AD 909 三年 · Granted
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 14
concurrent Palace Attendant 兼侍中
AD 907 梁開平元年 · Granted
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 12
Prince of Nanping 南平王
AD 909 三年 · Enfeoffed
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 14
Acting Grand Preceptor 檢校太師
AD 909 三年 · Granted
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 14
Acting Grand Commandant 檢校太尉
AD 907 梁開平元年 · Granted
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 12
Prince of Nanhai 南海王
AD 911 乾化元年 · Advanced
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 26
Prince of Nanping 南平王
AD 909 三年 · Enfeoffed
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 14

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Liang 梁 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 12
Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passages 6, 11
At Shangcai 上蔡 · Relation Ancestral
Strongly inferred · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 1
At Fengzhou 封州 · Relation Rose from
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 15
At Southern Sea / Nanhai 南海 · Relation Held
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 15

Events and relationships

Led Fengzhou troops; killed Lu Ju and Tan Qi; welcomed Zhirou
AD 894 to AD 898 乾寧中 · Military · Commander · Defeated · With Lu Ju (盧琚)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 8
Defeated
AD 894 to AD 898 乾寧中 · Military · Commander · With Tan Qi (覃玘)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 8
Relation Student of · Person Yang Dongqian (楊洞潛)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 24
Relation Patron of · Person Liu Jun (劉浚)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passages 19, 22
Relation Patron of · Person Ni Shu (倪曙)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passages 19, 22
Relation Patron of · Person Zhou Jie (周傑)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passages 19, 23

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Relation Patron of · Person Zhao Guangyi (趙光裔)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passages 19, 22
Relation Patron of · Person Wang Dingbao (王定保)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passages 19, 22
Relation Patron of · Person Li Heng (李衡)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passages 19, 22

Assessments and attributes

Assessment delighted in worthy scholars · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 65, passage 16

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劉隱，其祖安仁，上蔡人也，後徙閩中，商賈南海，因家焉。 Liu Yin’s grandfather Anren was a native of Shangcai. The family later moved to Minzhong and went into trade in the Southern Sea, where they eventually settled.

謙三子，曰隱、台、巖。 Qian had three sons: Yin, Tai, and Yan.

謙卒，廣州表隱代謙封州刺史。 After Qian died, Guangzhou recommended Yin to succeed him as prefect of Fengzhou.

隱以封州兵攻殺琚、玘，迎知柔，知柔辟隱行軍司馬。 Yin led Fengzhou troops against Lu Ju and Tan Qi, killed them, and welcomed Zhirou into the city. Zhirou then appointed Yin marching army marshal.

其後徐彥若代知柔，表隱節度副使，委以軍政。 Later Xu Yanruo replaced Zhirou as commander, recommended Yin as deputy military commissioner, and entrusted him with military and civil affairs.

彥若卒，軍中推隱為留後。 When Yanruo died, the troops acclaimed Yin as acting commissioner.

天祐二年，拜隱節度使。 In the second year of Tianyou, Yin was appointed military commissioner.

三年，加檢校太師、兼中書令，封南平王。 In the third year he was given the additional titles of Grand Preceptor and concurrent Director of the Secretariat and was enfeoffed as Prince of Nanping.

隱父子起封州，遭世多故，數有功於嶺南，遂有南海。 Yin and his father had risen from Fengzhou. In those troubled times they won repeated merit in Lingnan and eventually came to hold the Southern Sea.

隱復好賢士。 Yin also delighted in worthy scholars.

王定保、倪曙、劉浚、李衡、周傑、楊洞潛、趙光裔之徒，隱皆招禮之。 Wang Dingbao, Ni Shu, Liu Jun, Li Heng, Zhou Jie, Yang Dongqian, Zhao Guangyi, and others — Yin sought them out and treated them with honor.

皆辟置幕府，待以賓客。 Yin appointed them all to his staff and received them as honored guests.

傑善星歷，唐司農少卿，因避亂往，隱數問以災變，傑恥以星術事人，常稱疾不起，隱亦客之。 Jie was skilled in astronomy and calendrics and had been a Tang Vice Minister of Agriculture; he too had fled the chaos. Yin often asked him about omens and calamities, but Jie was ashamed to serve a patron with star lore and usually pleaded illness and would not attend. Yin still treated him as an honored guest.

洞潛初為邕管巡官，秩滿客南海，隱常師事之，後以為節度副使，及龑僭號，為陳吉兇禮法。 Dongqian had first served as a Yongguan circuit patrol officer; when his term ended he stayed on in the Southern Sea, and Yin often treated him as a teacher. Later Yin made him deputy military commissioner, and when Yan declared himself emperor, Dongqian laid out the rites and laws of the new state.

乾化元年，進封隱南海王。 In the first year of Qianhua, Yin was advanced to Prince of Nanhai.