Sui and Tang · Statesman and Official

Lu Yan 路巖

Lù Yán

Attested AD 860

Passages
12
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Lu Yan as an official and statesman. This record brings together 12 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Lu Yan 路巖 Lù Yán
Courtesy Luzhan 魯瞻 Lǔzhān

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: ordered suicide · Place: Xinzhou / 新州 · Postmortem Treatment: throat cut out and submitted to authorities

Age

  • Age: 36 · Event: became Grand Councillor · Source Date: Text: 咸通初 · Western Year: AD 860

Attested activity

Family

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  • Child of Lu Qun (路群)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

  • Label: Grand Councillor / 同中書門下平章事 · Action: appointed
  • Label: Hanlin Academician / 翰林學士 · Action: appointed
  • Label: Prefect of Xinzhou / 新州刺史 · Action: demoted
  • Label: Military Governor of Jiannan West / 劍南西川節度使 · Action: dismissed-to
  • Label: Outer-Court Member of the Ministry of Revenue / 屯田員外郎 · Action: held
  • Label: Vice Minister of War / 兵部侍郎 · Action: held
  • Label: Concurrent Director of the Secretariat / 兼中書令 · Action: promoted
  • Label: Left Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs / 尚書左仆射 · Action: promoted
  • Label: Military Governor of Jingnan / 荊南節度使 · Action: transferred
  • Title: Duke of Wei / 魏國公 · Action: enfeoffed
  • Status: held chief-ministerial power for eight years
  • Status: stripped of office, exiled to Danzhou, and household confiscated

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: trafficked in bribes and acted extravagantly and lawlessly · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  • Kind: physical-description · Statement: tall and handsome with a fine beard; both temples turned white by Jiangling
  • Kind: youthful-ability · Statement: exceptionally clever in youth

References in the histories

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 184Volume 184 Biographies 109: Ma, Yang, Lu, Lu · 12 passages