Luo Yin (羅隱) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Luo Yin as an official, poet, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 21 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Luo Yin	羅隱	Luo Yin
Style	Eastern River Student	江東生	Jiangdong Sheng
Surname	Luo	羅	Luo
Personal name	Luo Yin	羅隱	Luo Yin
Personal name	Yin	隱	Yin
Given	Yin	隱	Yin
Courtesy	Zhaojian	昭諫	Zhaojian

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0194, jiuwudaishi:024:s0110

Roles

Official
Poet
Scholar
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Place: Dingshan township / 定山鄉 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平三年 · Western Year: AD 909 · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Jianquan Diary / 澗泉日記
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0127
Place: Qiantang / 錢塘
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0121

Age

Age: 80 · Qualifier: over · Place: Qiantang / 錢塘
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0121

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 光啟三年 · Western Year: AD 887
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0123
Source Date: Text: 唐廣明中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 880 · End: AD 881
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0118
Source Date: Text: 天祐二年至三年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 905 · End: AD 906
Explicit event contextual date · jiutangshu:185:s0194, jiutangshu:185:s0175, jiutangshu:185:s0181
Source Date: Text: 開平三年 · Western Year: AD 909
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0126, jiuwudaishi:024:s0127
Source Date: Text: 開平二年 · Western Year: AD 908
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0125
Source Date: Text: 開平初 · Western Year: AD 907
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0119

Family

Kin of Luo Shaowei (羅紹威)
Kinship Term: claimed nephew / 侄 · Relationship State: uncertain · Note: claimed kinship in source
Kinship Term: claimed uncle-nephew / 叔侄 · Relationship State: uncertain · Note: claimed kinship in source
Kin of Luo Wei (羅威)
Kinship Term: paternal uncle / 叔父 · Parentage: claimed · Subject Role: nephew · Object Role: paternal-uncle · Line: paternal

Career and standing

Label: magistrate of Qiantang / 錢塘令 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光啟三年 · Western Year: AD 887
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0123
Label: staff to Qian Liu / 從事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 廣明中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 880 · End: AD 881
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0118
Label: grain transport commissioner / 發運使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平三年 · Western Year: AD 909
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0126
Label: Attendant Gentleman / 給事中 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0120, jiuwudaishi:024:s0125
Label: Right Remonstrance Counselor / 右諫議大夫 · Action: offered-and-refused · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平初 · Western Year: AD 907
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0119

Places and affiliations

Place: Qiantang / 錢塘
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0194
Place: Yuhang / 餘杭
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0113
Place: Dingshan township / 定山鄉 · Relation: buried-at · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平三年 · Western Year: AD 909
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0127
Place: Qiantang / 錢塘 · Relation: native-of
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0194

Learning and skills

Skill: historical verse / 詠史 · Level: renowned
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0114

Works and attributed material

Work: Applied Collection of Xiangnan / 湘南應用集 · Relation: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0131
Work: Book of Satire / 讒書 · Relation: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0131
Work: collected works / 文集 · Relation: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0129
Work: his collected poems / 其詩 · Relation: author
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0196
Work: Jia-yi Collection / 甲乙集 · Relation: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0131
Work: Parables of Huaihai / 淮海寓言 · Relation: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0131
Work: Satire Originals / 讒本 · Relation: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0131
Kind: dialogue · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Master Luo (羅尊師)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0133, jiuwudaishi:024:s0140, jiuwudaishi:024:s0142

Events and relationships

Kind: examination · Role: candidate · Action: failed-six-times
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0132
Kind: scholarly · Role: author · Action: sent-poem-collection · Other Person Id: Luo Wei (羅威)
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0196
Relation: kinsman-claiming-uncle-of · Person Id: Luo Shaowei (羅紹威)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0147, jiuwudaishi:024:s0150

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: had contemporary poetic fame · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0194
Kind: physical-description · Statement: appearance archaic and uncomely
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0115
Item: million cash and gifts / 百萬 · Relation: received · Other Person Id: Luo Shaowei (羅紹威)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0152

Source notes

Field: death-date · Statement: Main text: died over eighty at Qiantang; Jianquan Diary: died Kaiping 3 and buried at Dingshan
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0121, jiuwudaishi:024:s0127
Kind: style · Name: Eastern River Student / 江東生
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0194

References in the histories

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 185Volume 181 Biographies 131: Shi Xiancheng, Zi Xiaozhang, He Jintao, Han Yunzhong, Li Yanzhen, Luo Hongxin · 3 passages

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錢塘人羅隱者，有當世詩名，自號「江東生」。 Luo Yin of Qiantang enjoyed great renown as a poet of his day and styled himself "Eastern River Student."

威遣使賂遺，敘其宗姓，推為叔父。 Wei sent envoys with gifts, traced their shared clan ancestry, and treated Yin as his uncle.

隱亦集其詩寄之。 Yin in turn sent Wei a collection of his poems.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 24Volume 24 Book of Later Liang 24: Biographies 14: Li Ting, Lu Ceng, Sun Zhi, Zhang Jun, Zhang Yan, Du Xunhe, Luo Yin, Chou Yin, Duan Shen · 18 passages

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羅隱， Luo Yin,

〈（《唐才子傳》：隱字昭諫。）〉 (The 《Biographies of Tang Talents》 gives his style as Zhaojian.)〉

隱雖負文稱，然貌古而陋。 For all his literary fame, Yin looked old and plain.

畋女幼有文性，嘗覽隱詩卷，諷誦不已，畋疑其女有慕才之意。 Tian's daughter was literary; reading Yin's poems she could not stop reciting them, and Tian thought she admired the poet.

一日，隱至第，鄭女垂簾而窺之，自是絕不詠其詩。 When Yin visited the house the girl peeked through the curtain; from then on she never read his verse again.

梁開平二年，授給事中。 In Kaiping 2 of Liang he became Attendant Gentleman.

《五代史補》：羅隱在科場，恃才傲物，尤為公卿所惡，故六舉不第。 The 《Supplement to the History of the Five Dynasties》 says: In the examinations Yin leaned on his talent, was proud and rude, and was so hated by the great families that he failed six times.

時長安有羅尊師者，深於相術，隱以貌陋，恐為相術所棄，每與尊師接談，常自大以沮之。 In Chang'an there was a Master Luo skilled in physiognomy; Yin, fearing his looks would doom him, always bragged when they met to discourage a reading.

隱懵然不知所措者數日。 Yin was stunned and for days could not decide.

隱謂知之，因盡以尊師之言告之。 Thinking she might understand, he told her everything the master had said.

媼歎曰：「秀才何自迷甚焉，且天下皆知羅隱，何須一第然後為得哉！ She sighed: "Scholar, you fool yourself! Everyone knows Luo Yin—why must a degree be your only success?