Quan Yu (全昱) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Quan Yu as an aristocrat, military officer, and royal family member. This record brings together 13 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	Quan Yu	全昱	Quán Yù
Posthumous	Dejing	德靖	Déjìng
Descriptive kinship	his brother Quanyu	兄全昱
Title	Prince of Guang	廣王	Guǎng Wáng
Title	Prince of Guang	廣王	Guang Wang
Personal	Quanyu	全昱	Quanyu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Aristocrat
Military Officer
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 貞明二年 · Western Year: AD 916
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾化元年 · Western Year: AD 911
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Source Date: Text: 受禪後 · Western Year: AD 907
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Source Date: Text: 开平元年 · Western Year: AD 907
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Source Date: Text: 貞明二年 · Western Year: AD 916
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Family

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Sibling of Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠)
Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Relative Age: uncertain · Shared Parentage: uncertain
Kinship Term: eldest brother / 長兄 · Parentage: biological · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Birth Order: 1 · Shared Parentage: full
Parent of You Neng (友能)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Parent of You Liang (友諒)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Parent of You Hui (友誨)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: military commissioner of Songzhou / 宋州節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 庶人篡位 · Western Year: AD 912
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Label: Director of the Imperial Secretariat / 尚書令 · Action: posthumously granted
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Title: Prince of Guang / 廣王 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 受禪後 · Western Year: AD 907
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Title: Prince of Guang / 廣王 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 开平元年 · Western Year: AD 907
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Later Liang / 梁 · Relation: enfeoffed-in
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Place: Dangshan / 碭山
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Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Addressee Person Id: Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: single honest speech spared his line · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 12Volume 12 Book of Later Liang 12: Biographies 2: Imperial Family · 12 passages

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廣王全昱，太祖長兄，受禪後封。 Quan Yu, Prince of Guang, was the Founder's eldest brother and received his princely title when the dynasty was founded.

庶人篡位，授宋州節度使。 After the commoner (Zhu Yougui) usurped the throne, Quan Yu was made military commissioner of Songzhou.

〈（《五代會要》：全昱，贈尚書令，諡德靖。 (The 《Five Dynasties Essentials》 records that Quan Yu was posthumously honored as Director of the Imperial Secretariat with the posthumous title Dejing.

《五代史闕文》：全昱，梁祖之兄也。 The 《Lacunae of the History of the Five Dynasties》 identifies Quan Yu as the Liang founder's elder brother.

因為博戲，全昱酒酣，忽起取骰子擊盆迸散，大呼梁祖曰：「朱三，汝碭山一民，因天下饑荒，入黃巢作賊，天子用汝為四鎮節度使，富貴足矣，何故滅他李家三百年社稷，稱王稱朕，吾不忍見血吾族矣，安用博為！」 At dice play Quan Yu, drunk, leaped up, smashed the bowl with his dice, and shouted at the Liang founder: "Zhu Third! You were a peasant from Dangshan who joined Huang Chao's rebels in famine; the throne made you lord of four circuits—that should have been enough. Why wipe out the Li dynasty's three-century altars and call yourself king and Son of Heaven? I will not watch our family slaughtered—why gamble at all!"

臣護按《梁史》《廣王全昱傳》曰：昱樸野，常呼帝為「三」。 Your subject Hu notes in the 《History of Liang》 biography of Prince Guang that Quan Yu was coarse and habitually addressed the emperor as "Third."

及莊宗即位，盡誅朱氏，惟全昱先令終。 When Emperor Zhuangzong came to power he killed the whole Zhu house; only Quan Yu had already died in his bed.

至道初，知單州有稱廣王之後與尼訟田者，豈以一言之善，獨存其嗣耶！）〉 Early in the Zhidao reign a man at Shan prefecture claiming descent from Prince Guang sued a nun over land—did a single honest speech alone spare his line?!)〉

友諒，全昱子，初封衡王，後嗣廣王。 You Liang, Quan Yu's son, was first Prince of Heng and later succeeded to the title Prince of Guang.

友能，全昱子，封惠王，後為宋、滑二州留後。 You Neng, Quan Yu's son, was created Prince of Hui and later served as acting commissioner of Song and Hua.

友誨，全昱子，封邵王。 You Hui, another son of Quan Yu, held the title Prince of Shao.

尋詣廣王於輝州，以訴其冤。 He soon sought out Prince Guang at Hui prefecture to plead his case.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 2Volume 2 Later Liang Annals 2: Taizu 2 · 1 passage

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乙酉，兄全昱為廣王，子友文博王，友文非子而書子，語在家人傳。 On the day yiyou, his brother Quanyu was made Prince of Guang and his son Youwen Prince of Bo; Youwen was not actually his son, but he is written here as "son," as explained in the Biographies of the Imperial Household.