Shi Yanqiong (史彥瓊)

Overview

The translated histories identify Shi Yanqiong as an administrator, eunuch, military officer, and musician. This record brings together 9 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	Shi Yanqiong	史彥瓊	Shi Yanqiong
Personal name	Shi Yanqiong	史彥瓊	Shi Yanqiong
Personal	Shi Yanqiong	史彦瓊	Shi Yanqiong
Given	Yanqiong	彥瓊	Yanqiong
Personal	Yanqiong	彦瓊	Yanqiong

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:069:s0092
Sex: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:037:s0060

Roles

Administrator
Eunuch
Military Officer
Musician
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 三年冬 · Western Year: AD 925
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:069:s0091, jiuwudaishi:069:s0092
Source Date: Text: 同光 · Western Interval: Start: AD 923 · End: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:037:s0060, xinwudaishi:037:s0078
Source Date: Text: 四月丁亥朔 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:037:s0086, xinwudaishi:037:s0088

Career and standing

Label: Military Virtue Commissioner / 武德使 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:037:s0078

Places and affiliations

Place: Ye / 鄴都 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · xinwudaishi:037:s0078

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Sun Duo (孫鐸)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:037:s0087

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: abandoned-ye · Other Person Id: Zhao Zaili (趙在禮)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:037:s0087, xinwudaishi:037:s0088, xinwudaishi:037:s0089

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: foremost among those who ruined government · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · xinwudaishi:037:s0060

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · xinwudaishi:037:s0060

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 69Volume 69 Book of Later Tang 45: Biographies 21: Zhang Xian, Wang Zhengyan, Hu Zhuang, Cui Yisun, Meng Hu, Sun Yue, Zhang Yanlang, Liu Yanhao, Liu Yanlang · 2 passages

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時武德使史彥瓊，監守鄴都，廩帑出納，兵馬製置，皆出彥瓊，將佐官吏，頤指氣使，正言不能以道禦之，但趑趄聽命。 At that time the Military Virtue commissioner Shi Yanqiong supervised and guarded Yedu; granary receipts and disbursements and military arrangements all issued from Yanqiong. Generals, staff, and officials he ordered about imperiously; Zhengyan could not restrain him by principle but only hesitated and obeyed.

至是，貝州戍兵亂，入魏州，彥瓊望風敗走，亂兵剽劫坊市。 At this time the garrison troops of Beizhou mutinied and entered Weizhou; Yanqiong fled at the mere rumor of their approach, and the mutineers plundered the wards and markets.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 37Volume 37 Biographies 17: · 7 passages

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其敗政亂國者，有景進、史彦瓊、郭門高三人為最。 The men who wrecked the realm were three: Jing Jin, Shi Yanqiong, and Men Gao.

史彦瓊者，為武德使，居鄴都，而魏博六州之政皆決彦瓊，自留守王正言而下，皆俛首承事之。 Shi Yanqiong held Ye as Military Virtue Commissioner and ruled Weibo’s six prefectures; from Wang Zhengyan the garrison commander down, everyone kowtowed to him.

友謙子建徽為澶州刺史，有詔彦瓊使殺之，彦瓊秘其事，夜半馳出城。 Youqian’s son Jianhui governed Chanzhou; orders came for Yanqiong to kill him; Yanqiong hid the command and fled the city at midnight.

鄴人見彦瓊無故夜馳出，因驚傳曰：「劉皇后怒崇韜之殺繼岌也，已弑帝而自立，急召彦瓊計事。」 Seeing Yanqiong bolt at midnight without cause, Ye took fright and whispered: “The empress, enraged that Chongtao killed her son, has slain the emperor and seized the throne—she has called Yanqiong in haste to plot.”

在禮已至館陶，鄴都巡檢使孫鐸，見彦瓊求兵禦賊，彦瓊不肯與，曰：「賊未至，至而給兵豈晚邪？」 Zaili was already at Guantao; Sun Duo the patrol commissioner begged Yanqiong for troops; Yanqiong refused: “The rebels aren’t here yet—why not wait until they are?”

已而賊至，彦瓊以兵登北門，聞賊呼聲，大恐，棄其兵而走，單騎歸於京師。 The rebels came; Yanqiong manned the North Gate, heard their battle cries, panicked, threw down his men, and rode alone to the capital.

在禮由是得入於鄴以成其叛亂者，由彦瓊啓而縱之也。 Zaili walked into Ye and made good his revolt—because Yanqiong opened the gate and let him pass.