Shi Yanchao (史彥超)

Overview

The translated histories identify Shi Yanchao as a general and military officer. This record brings together 5 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Shi Yanchao	史彥超	Shǐ Yànchāo
Personal name	Shi Yanchao	史彥超	Shǐ Yànchāo
Personal	Shi Yanchao	史彦超
Personal	Shi Yanchao	史彥超	Shi Yanchao
Title	Vanguard Commander Shi Yanchao
Personal	Yanchao	彥超

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:077:s0010, xinwudaishi:012:s0045
Value: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:070:s0043

Roles

General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: killed-in-battle · Place: Xinkou / 忻口 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 显德元年五月 · Western Year: AD 954
Explicit · xinwudaishi:012:s0045
Manner: killed-in-battle
Explicit · xinwudaishi:070:s0059

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 周侵漢時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 951 · End: AD 960
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0216
Source Date: Text: 显德元年五月 · Western Year: AD 954
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:012:s0045
Source Date: Text: 顯德元年三月 · Western Year: AD 954
Explicit · xinwudaishi:070:s0043

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 77Volume 77 Biographies 7: Yelu Wuzhi, Yelu Hou, Yelu Antuan, Yelu Wa, Yelu Tuiyu, Yelu Talie · 1 passage

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撻烈擊敗之，獲其將史彥超，周軍遁歸，復所陷城邑，漢主詣撻烈謝。 Talie defeated them, captured their general Shi Yanchao, the Zhou army fled, the lost cities were recovered, and the Han ruler came in person to thank him.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 12Volume 12 Later Zhou Annals 3: Shizong, Emperor Gong · 1 passage

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符彦卿及契丹战于忻口，败绩，先锋都指挥使史彦超死之。 Fu Yanqing met the Khitan at Xinkou and was beaten; Vanguard Commander Shi Yanchao fell in the fight.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 70Volume 70: Hereditary House of Eastern Han · 3 passages

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顯德元年三月親征，甲午，戰於高平，李重進、白重贊將左，樊愛能、何徽將右，向訓、史彥超居中軍，張永德以禁兵衛蹕。 Third month, Xiande 1: he marched in person. On jiawu day the armies met at Gaoping—Li Chongjin and Bai Chongzan on the left, Fan Aineng and He Hui on the right, Xiang Xun and Shi Yanchao in the center, Zhang Yongde shielding the imperial train with the palace guard.

進攻太原，遣符彥卿、史彥超北控忻口，以斷契丹援路。 He advanced on Taiyuan, posting Fu Yanqing and Shi Yanchao at Xin Ford to sever Khitan aid.

太原城方四十里，周師去城三百步，圍之匝，自四月至於六月，攻之不克，而彥卿等為契丹所敗，彥超戰歿，世宗遽班師。 The forty-li walls defied them from April through June; Yanqing's force was routed by Khitan; Yanchao fell; Shizong hurried south.