Song, Liao, and Jin · Official and Diplomat

Xiao Yaoshinu 蕭藥師奴

Died AD 1101

Passages
9
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Xiao Yaoshinu as a diplomat, envoy, military officer, and official. This record brings together 9 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Xiao Yaoshinu 蕭藥師奴 Xiao Yaoshinu
Descriptive kinship nephew of Xiao Paizhe
Surname Xiao Xiao
Alternate Yaoshinu 藥師奴 Yaoshinu
Personal Yaoshinu 藥師奴 Yàoshīnú

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Diplomat
  • Envoy
  • Military Officer
  • Official

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: died · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾統初 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1102
    Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0070

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 大康中 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Western Interval: Start: AD 1075 · End: AD 1084
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:091:s0066
  • Source Date: Text: 乾統初 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1102
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:091:s0070
  • Source Date: Text: 壽隆三年十一月 · Western Year: AD 1097
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:026:s0076
  • Source Date: Text: 壽隆五年 · Western Year: AD 1099
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:026:s0097, liaoshi:026:s0101
  • Source Date: Text: 壽隆四年十一月 · Western Year: AD 1098
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:026:s0092

Family

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Career and standing

  • Label: Director of the Xingsheng Palace / 興聖宮使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康中 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Western Interval: Start: AD 1075 · End: AD 1084
    Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0066
  • Label: Military Commissioner of Andong Army / 安東軍節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾統初 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1102
    Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0070
  • Label: administrator of Right yilibi affairs / 知右夷離畢 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:026:s0076
  • Label: Attendant Gentleman / 祗候郎君 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0065
  • Label: Deputy Commissioner of the Han traveling palace / 漢人行宮副部署 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0069
  • Label: Southern Court palace academician / 南面林牙 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:026:s0101
  • Label: Southern Forest Ya / 南面林牙 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0069
  • Label: Vice Director of the Palace Front Inspection Office / 同知殿前點檢司事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0066
  • Label: associate Southern Court privy commissioner / 同知南院樞密使事 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:026:s0076
  • Label: Right Yilibi / 右夷離畢 · Action: promoted
    Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0067

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

  • Kind: memorial · Role: author · Statement: Song had ceased hostilities
    Explicit · liaoshi:026:s0097

Events and relationships

  • Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: sent to Song asking cessation of hostilities against Xia; Song agreed · Other Person Id: Li Qianshun (李乾順)
    Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0068
  • Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: sent-to-Song · Other Label: Song / 宋
    Explicit · liaoshi:026:s0092

Assessments and attributes

  • Kind: character · Statement: clever from childhood; careful in ritual and law
    Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0065

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 26Volume 26 Annals 26: Daozong 6 · 4 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 91Volume 91 Biographies 21: Yelu Hanba, Yelu Tanggu, Xiao Paizhe, Yelu Jue, Yelu Pulidu · 5 passages