Mother of Li Yan (李嚴之母)

Overview

The translated histories identify Mother of Li Yan as a family member. This record brings together 3 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese
Personal	Mother of Li Yan	李嚴之母
Descriptive kinship	Mother of Li Yan	嚴之母
Descriptive kinship	Mother of Li Yan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Anonymous individuated
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:070:s0126
Value: female
Explicit · xinwudaishi:026:s0133

Roles

Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: AD 933 · Western Year: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:026:s0133
Source Date: Text: 長興初 · Western Year: AD 930
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:070:s0127

Family

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Parent of Li Yan (李嚴)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Li Yan (李嚴) · Quoted: true
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:070:s0127, jiuwudaishi:070:s0128

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: wise and virtuous · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:070:s0126

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 70Volume 70 Book of Later Tang 46: Biographies 22: Yuan Xingqin, Xia Luqi, Yao Hong, Li Yan, Li Renju, Kang Sili, Zhang Jingda · 2 passages

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嚴之母，賢明婦人。 Yan's mother was a wise and virtuous woman.

初，嚴將赴蜀，母曰：「汝前啟破蜀之謀，今又入蜀，將死報蜀人矣！ When Yan was about to depart for Shu, his mother said, "You first proposed the plan to destroy Shu, and now you enter Shu again. You will die repaying the people of Shu!

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 26Volume 26 Later Tang Biographies 6: Fu Xi, Wu Zhen, Kong Qian, Zhang Yanlang, Li Yan, Li Renju, Mao Zhang · 1 passage

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將行，其母曰：「汝前啟破蜀之謀，今行，其以死報蜀人矣！」 Before he left, his mother said: “You were the one who opened the road to break Shu. Go now, and Shu will repay you with death.”