Liu Yue (劉嶽) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Yue as an official, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 8 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liu Yue	劉嶽	Liu Yue
Personal	Liu Yue	劉嶽
Personal name	Liu Yue	劉岳	Liu Yue
Personal name	Yue	嶽	Yue
Courtesy name	Zhaofu	昭輔	Zhaofu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:037:s0101
Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0051
Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:042:s0063

Roles

Official
Scholar
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Age: Value: 56
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0066

Age

Stated Age: 56 · Context: at death
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天成中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 930
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Source Date: Text: 天成元年 · Western Year: AD 926
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Source Date: Text: 梁貞明初 · Western Year: AD 915
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Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
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Family

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Descendant of Liu Zhenghui (劉政會)
Generation Distance: 8 · Kinship Term: eighth-generation ancestor / 八代祖
Child of Liu Gui (劉珪)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Parent of Liu Wensou (劉溫叟)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Child of Mother of Liu Yue
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological

Origins and identity

Statement: forebears from Xiangping in Liaodong; moved via Dai with Northern Wei
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Career and standing

Label: Hanlin Academician / 翰林學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 梁貞明初 · Western Year: AD 915
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Label: Minister of Ceremonies; formerly Director of the Secretariat Archives / 太常卿、秘書監 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
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Label: Minister of Personnel / 吏部侍郎 · Action: appointed
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Label: Minister of Personnel / 吏部尚書 · Action: posthumously-granted
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Status: orphan · Action: entered
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Places and affiliations

Place: Luoyang / 洛陽 · Relation: native
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Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned
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Skill: witty conversation / 談諧 · Level: renowned
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Works and attributed material

Work: New Book of Ritual / 新書儀 · Relation: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天成中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 930
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Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: mourner · Action: mourned-mother · Other Person Id: Mother of Liu Yue
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0064

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: ritual expertise; model for gentry · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 37Volume 37 Book of Later Tang 13: Mingzong Annals 3 · 1 passage

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以兵部侍郎劉嶽為吏部侍郎，以戶部侍郎、充端明殿學士馮道為兵部侍郎，以中書舍人、充端明殿學士趙鳳為戶部侍郎，並依前充職。 Liu Yue moved from War to Personnel; Feng Dao from Revenue to War while keeping Duanming Hall; Zhao Feng from drafting to Revenue while keeping Duanming—all at rank.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 1 passage

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丁丑，以秘書監劉嶽為太常卿。 On dingchou Liu Yue became minister of ceremonies.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 6 passages

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劉岳，字昭輔。 Liu Yue, whose style was Zhaofu.

嶽少孤，亦進士擢第，曆戶部巡官、鄭縣簿、直史館，轉左拾遺、侍御史。 Orphaned young, Yue also earned his jinshi degree and served in succession as a touring official in the Ministry of Revenue, registrar of Zheng County, and direct historian in the History Office, then as left remonstrance official and attending censor.

嶽為文敏速，尤善談諧，在職累遷戶部侍郎，在翰林十二年。 Yue wrote with quick facility and had a gift for witty conversation. He rose to vice minister of revenue and spent twelve years in the Hanlin.

莊宗入汴，隨例貶均州司馬，尋丁母憂，許自貶所奔喪，服闋，授太子詹事。 When Zhuangzong took Bian, Yue was demoted under the usual purge to defender of Junzhou. He soon entered mourning for his mother and was allowed to leave his post of exile for the funeral; when the mourning ended he was appointed grand mentor of the heir apparent.

岳文學之外，通於典禮。 Apart from his literary gifts, Yue was deeply versed in ritual protocol.

如廷珪之文學，崔沂之剛正，劉嶽之典禮，舜卿之掌誥，洎夢徵而下，皆蔚有貞規，無虧懿範，固可以為搢紳之圭表，聳朝廷之羽儀，以之垂名，夫何不韙。 Men such as Tinggui in letters, Yi in integrity, Yue in ritual, Shunqing in edict drafting, and from Mengzheng downward all upheld steadfast standards without blemish on their reputations. They may serve as models for the official class and ornaments of the court. To leave such names to posterity — what could be more fitting?