Mai Yunyan (麥允言) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Mai Yunyan as an attendant and eunuch. This record brings together 1 passage from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Mai Yunyan	麥允言	Mài Yǔnyán
Title	Inner Attendant Mai Yunyan	內侍麥允言
Personal name	Mai Yunyan	麥允言	Mài Yǔnyán

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · songshi:076:s0011

Roles

Attendant
Eunuch

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 皇祐初 · Western Year: AD 1049
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Career and standing

Label: Inner Attendant / 內侍 · Action: held
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Song / 宋 · Relation: served
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Events and relationships

Kind: administrative · Role: supervisor · Action: oversaw-construction
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References in the histories

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History of Song, Chapter 76Volume 76 Treatises 29: Measures and Calendar 9 · 1 passage

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皇祐初，又命日官舒易簡、于淵、周琮等參用淳風、令瓚之制，改鑄黃道渾儀，又為漏刻、圭表，詔翰林學士錢明逸詳其法，內侍麥允言總其工。 Early in the Huangyou era, the court again ordered the solar officials Shu Yijian, Yu Yuan, and Zhou Cong to draw on the designs of Li Chunfeng and Liang Lingzan, recast an ecliptic armillary sphere, and also build clepsydra graduations and a gnomon table; Hanlin Academician Qian Mingyi was directed to work out the methods, and Inner Attendant Mai Yunyan to supervise construction.