Shi Yi (史懿) | 24 Histories

Overview

Shi Yi was a general and Official.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Jimei	繼美	Jimei

Life and dates

Death

AD 954 顯德元年
Age 63 · At Luoyang 洛
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 113

Age

63
Reckoning Sui
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 113

Attested activity

AD 926 天成中
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 101
AD 940 天福中
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 104
AD 951 廣順初
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 109
AD 936 晉初
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 102
AD 944 開運初
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 105
AD 954 顯德元年
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 110

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Shi Jiantang (史建瑭)
father 父
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 99
Sibling of Shi Han (史翰)
younger brother 弟 · Full siblings
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 103

Career and standing

military governor of Jingyuan 涇原
AD 946 開運三年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 106
Duke of Bin 邠國公
AD 951 廣順初 · Enfeoffed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 109

Places and affiliations

At Dai Commandery 代郡
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 97

Source notes

original given name changed due to Taizu temple taboo
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 98

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 124Volume 124 Book of Later Zhou 26: Biographies 4: Wang Yin, He Fejin, Liu Ci, Wang Jin, Shi Yanchao, Shi Yi, Wang Lingwen, Zhou Mi, Li Huaizong, Bai Wenke, Bai Yanyu, Tang Jinsi · 5 passages

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史懿，字繼美，代郡人也。 Shi Yi, whose courtesy name was Jimei, was a native of Dai Commandery.

莊宗之伐鎮陽，時建瑭為流矢所中而卒，懿時年甫弱冠，莊宗以其父歿於王事，召拜昭德軍使，俄遷先鋒左右廂都校，俾嗣其家聲。 When Emperor Zhuangzong campaigned against Zhenyang, Jiantang was struck by a stray arrow and killed. Yi was then barely twenty. Zhuangzong, honoring his father's death in the state's service, summoned him and appointed him commissioner of the Zhaode army, and soon made him colonel of the left and right wings of the vanguard so that he might carry on his family's martial renown.

晉祖以其弟翰尚晉國長公主，故尤所註意。 Because Yi's younger brother Han had married the eldest princess of Jin, the Jin founder took special notice of him.

未幾，契丹入中原，時四方征鎮為契丹所召者靡不灊至，惟懿堅壁拒命，仍送款於漢祖。 Before long the Khitans overran the Central Plains. Of the military commissioners summoned by them across the realm, scarcely one failed to submit. Yi alone held his walls and refused their orders, while sending pledges of loyalty to the founder of Later Han.

〈（《東都事略·楊廷璋傳》：周太祖常諭廷璋圖涇帥史懿，廷璋屏左右，示以詔書，懿受代入朝，遂免禍。）〉 (The 《Eastern Capital Summary, Biography of Yang Tingzhang》 records that Zhou Taizu often directed Tingzhang to move against Shi Yi, commander at Jing. Tingzhang dismissed his attendants and showed him the edict. Yi accepted recall and came to court, thereby escaping disaster.)〉