Nie Yu (聶嶼) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Nie Yu as an envoy, monk, official, and poet. This record brings together 6 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Nie Yu	聶嶼	Nie Yu
Personal name	Nie Yu	聶嶼	Nie Yu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:073:s0031

Roles

Envoy
Monk
Official
Poet

Life and dates

Death

Manner: ordered suicide · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天成中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 930
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:073:s0043

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天成中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 930
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:073:s0043
Source Date: Text: 天成初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 930
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:073:s0037

Family

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Betrothed to Wife of Guo Chongtao's second son (郭氏次子之婦)
Kinship Term: sent betrothal gifts / 納幣 · Union Category: betrothal · Relationship State: formed
Spouse of Former wife of Nie Yu (聶嶼故偶)
Kinship Term: spouse / 偶 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: widowed

Career and standing

Label: aide to the Ye garrison commander / 鄴都留守判官 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天成初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 930
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:073:s0037
Label: diarist / 起居舍人 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 933
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:073:s0035
Label: remonstrance officer / 拾遺 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:073:s0034
Label: secretary at Zhen Prefecture / 鎮州書記 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:073:s0034

Places and affiliations

Place: Ye / 鄴中
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:073:s0031

Learning and skills

Credential: presented scholar / examination graduate / 登第 · Action: earned
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Belief: Buddhism / 僧 · Relation: adherent-of
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Events and relationships

Relation: client-of · Person Id: Guo Chongtao (郭崇韜)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:073:s0034, jiuwudaishi:073:s0040
Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Lü Mengqi (呂夢奇)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:073:s0037
Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Zhao Jingyi (趙敬怡)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:073:s0037

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: disgraceful conduct · Provenance: Mode: named-person-report · Speaker Person Id: Li Siyuan (李嗣源)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:073:s0042
Kind: physical-description · Statement: eyes bulged prominently
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:073:s0036

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 73Volume 73 Book of Later Tang 49: Biographies 25: Mao Zhang, Nie Yu, Wen Tao, Duan Ning, Kong Qian, Li Ye · 6 passages

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聶嶼，鄴中人。 Nie Yu came from Ye.

鄭玨之再主禮闈也，與鄉人趙都俱赴鄉薦，都納賄於玨，人報翌日登第，嶼聞不捷，詬來人以嚇之，玨懼，俾俱成名。 When Zheng Jue again oversaw the civil examinations, Nie and his fellow townsman Zhao Du both sought provincial recommendation. Du paid Jue a bribe, and word spread that he would pass the next day. On learning he had failed, Nie cursed the messenger in a deliberate attempt to intimidate him. Frightened, Jue saw to it that both men passed.

或達於重誨，會敬怡入為樞密使，與夢奇同構殺之。 Word of this reached An Chonghui. When Jingyi entered the capital as director of the Bureau of Military Affairs, he and Mengqi together plotted to have Nie killed.

嶼早依郭崇韜門庭，致身朱紫，名登兩史，浙江使回，生涯巨萬。 Nie had risen through Guo Chongtao's patronage to high office, earned mention in both official histories, and after returning from an envoy mission to Zhejiang had accumulated a fortune numbering in the tens of thousands.

嶼內河東節判時，郭氏次子之婦，孀居於家，嶼喪偶未久，復忍而納幣，人皆罪之。 While serving as internal secretary and circuit judge in Hedong, Nie learned that the wife of Guo's second son was living at home as a widow. Though he had himself been widowed only recently, he brazenly sent betrothal gifts to her, to universal condemnation.

明宗在藩邸時，素聞其醜聲。 Even when Mingzong was still a prince, he had heard repeated reports of Nie's disgraceful conduct.