Xidi (奚底) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xidi as a general, military officer, official, and royal family member. This record brings together 20 passages from 7 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xidi	奚底	Xīdǐ
Title	Northern Chancellery Great King	北院大王
Title	Northern Chancellor	北院大王
Personal	Xidi	奚低	Xīdī
Personal name	Xidi	奚底	Xīdǐ
Alternate	Xidi	奚底
Alternate	Xidi	奚低
Personal name	Xidi	奚底	Xidi
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yēlǜ
Personal	Yelu Xidi	耶律奚低	Yēlǜ Xīdī
Personal	Yelu Xidi	耶律奚底

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:008:s0037, liaoshi:066:s0415, liaoshi:083:s0106
Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:009:s0041, liaoshi:066:s0147, liaoshi:082:s0014, liaoshi:084:s0045, liaoshi:085:s0124

Roles

General
Military Officer
Official
Royal Family Member
Tribal Leader

Life and dates

Death

Cause: illness
Explicit · liaoshi:083:s0117

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾亨元年 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 979
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:009:s0041, liaoshi:083:s0008
Source Date: Text: 乾亨初 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 979
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:085:s0124
Source Date: Text: 統和四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:083:s0110
Source Date: Text: 乾亨初 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Western Year: AD 979
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:084:s0045
Source Date: Text: 保寧三年 · Western Year: AD 971
Explicit · liaoshi:008:s0037
Source Date: Text: 遼 · Western Interval: Start: AD 916 · End: AD 1125
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:066:s0147
Source Date: Text: 遼皇族表 · Western Interval: Start: AD 916 · End: AD 1125
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:066:s0415
Source Date: Text: 高梁河 · Western Year: AD 979
Explicit · liaoshi:082:s0014

Family

Descendant of Yanmu (巖木)
Kinship Term: descendant of / 之後
Descendant of Prince of Chu (楚國王)
Kinship Term: descendant / 後 · Line: paternal
Descendant of Liao Taizu (遼太祖)
Kinship Term: descended from / 係出 · Line: paternal
Descendant of Jundeshi (勻德實)
Kinship Term: descended from / 係出

Origins and identity

Label: Liao imperial clan / 遼皇族
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:066:s0415

Career and standing

Label: Right Pishi Xiangwen / 右皮室詳穩 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
Explicit · liaoshi:083:s0110
Label: Northern Chancellery Great King / 北院大王 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:066:s0415
Label: Northern Court Great King / 北院大王 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:009:s0041, liaoshi:009:s0051
Label: Right Pishi Detail Commander / 右皮室詳穩 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:066:s0147
Label: right yilijin / 右夷離畢 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:008:s0037
Status: corporal-punishment · Action: beaten-with-sword-flat · Reason: retreated-before-enemy · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾亨元年 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 979
Explicit · liaoshi:009:s0063

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: associated-with
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:066:s0415
Polity Id: liao · Relation: belonged-to
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:066:s0147
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:008:s0037
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:009:s0041, liaoshi:083:s0109, liaoshi:084:s0045

Learning and skills

Skill: bow and horse / 弓馬 · Level: skilled
Explicit · liaoshi:083:s0108

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: fought-at · Place: Sha River / 沙河 · Outcome: defeat · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾亨元年 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 979
Explicit · liaoshi:009:s0051, liaoshi:009:s0052
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: garrison-Yan · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾亨元年 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 979
Explicit · liaoshi:009:s0041
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: resisted-with · Other Person Id: Taogu (討古) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾亨初 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Western Year: AD 979 · Outcome: defeat
Explicit · liaoshi:084:s0045
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: sent-Dilie-captives · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保寧三年正月 · Western Year: AD 971
Explicit · liaoshi:008:s0037
Kind: military · Role: archer · Action: shot · Other Person Id: Yang Jiye (楊繼業)
Explicit · liaoshi:083:s0114

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · liaoshi:008:s0037

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 8Volume 8 Annals 8: Jingzong 1 · 1 passage

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三年春正月甲寅，右夷離畢奚底遣人獻敵烈俘，詔賜有功將士。 In the third year, on jiayin day in the first spring month, right yilijin Xidi sent men with captives taken from Dilie; an edict rewarded the officers and soldiers who had earned merit.

History of Liao, Chapter 9Volume 9 Annals 9: Jingzong 2 · 4 passages

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丙戌，漢遣使謝撫諭軍民，詔北院大王奚底、乙室王撒合等以兵戍燕。 On bingxu day Han sent envoys thanking the court for reassuring troops and civilians; an edict ordered Northern Court Great King Xidi, Prince of Yishi Sahe, and others to garrison Yan.

丁卯，北院大王奚底、統軍使蕭討古、乙室王撒合擊之。 On dingmao day Northern Court Great King Xidi, army commander Xiao Taogu, and Prince of Yishi Sahe moved to intercept them.

丁丑，詔諭耶律沙及奚底、討古等軍中事宜。 On dingchou day an edict addressed Yelü Sha, Xidi, Taogu, and the other commanders on conduct of the campaign.

奚底遇敵而退，以劍背擊之； Xidi, who had retreated before the enemy, was beaten with the flat of a sword;

History of Liao, Chapter 66Volume 66 Tables 4: Imperial Family · 2 passages

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右皮室詳穩奚低。 Xidi, Right Pishi Detail Commander.

北院大王奚底。 Xidi, Northern Chancellery Great King.

History of Liao, Chapter 82Volume 82 Biographies 12: Yelu Longyun, Yelu Boguzhe, Xiao Yanga, Wu Bai, Xiao Changge, Yelu Hugu · 1 passage

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宋兵取河東，侵燕，五院糺詳穩奚底、統軍蕭討古等敗歸，宋兵圍城，招脅甚急，人懷二心。 When Song forces seized Hedong and pressed into Yan, the Five Yuan detailed commandants Xidi and Grand General Xiaotaogu were driven back in defeat. The Song army laid siege to the city, its summons and threats pressing hard, and loyalty within the walls began to falter.

History of Liao, Chapter 83Volume 83 Biographies 13: Yelu Xiuge, Yelu Xiezhen, Yelu Xidi, Yelu Xuegu · 10 passages

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乾亨元年，宋侵燕，北院大王奚底、統軍使蕭討古等敗績，南京被圍。 In the first year of Qianheng, when Song invaded Yan, the Northern Court Great King Xidi, army commander Xiao Taogu, and others suffered defeat and the Southern Capital came under siege.

帝命休哥代奚底，將五院軍往救。 The emperor ordered Xiuge to replace Xidi and march to the relief with the armies of the Five Corps.

是年秋，宋下河東，乘勝襲燕，北院大王耶律奚底與蕭討古逆戰，敗績，退屯清河北。 That autumn Song overran Hedong and, pressing their advantage, struck at Yan; Great King of the Northern Court Yelu Xidi and Xiao Taogu met them in battle, were routed, and fell back to encamp north of the Qing River.

斜軫取奚底等青幟軍於得勝口以誘敵，敵果爭赴。 Xiezhen took Xidi's green-banner force at Desheng Pass to lure the enemy, and the enemy rushed to meet them as expected.

耶律奚低 Yelu Xidi

耶律奚低，孟父楚國王之後。 Yelu Xidi was a descendant of the Prince of Chu of the Mengfu lineage.

時宋將楊繼業陷山西郡縣，奚低從樞密使斜軫討之。 When the Song general Yang Ye overran the Shanxi commanderies, Xidi followed Privy Council Commissioner Xiezhen against him.

奚低望袍影而射，繼業墮馬。 Xidi caught sight of a robe's shadow and shot; Ye fell from his horse.

先是，軍令須生擒繼業，奚低以故不能為功。 Earlier orders had required Ye to be taken alive, so for that reason Xidi could not claim the credit.

始至京，宋敗耶律奚底、蕭討古等，勢益張，圍城三周，穴地而進，城中民懷二心。 When he first reached the capital, Song had already defeated Yelu Xidi, Xiao Taogu, and others. Their momentum swelled; they besieged the city on three sides, tunneled underground to advance, and the townspeople wavered in loyalty.

History of Liao, Chapter 84Volume 84 Biographies 14: Yelu Sha, Yelu Mozhi, Xiao Gan, Yelu Shanbu, Yelu Haili · 1 passage

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乾亨初，宋侵燕，討古與北院大王奚底拒之，不克，軍潰。 Early in Qianheng, when the Song invaded Yan, Taogu and the Northern Chancellor Xidi tried to hold them off but failed and their army broke in rout.

History of Liao, Chapter 85Volume 85 Biographies 15: Xiao Talin, Xiao Guanyinnu, Yelu Tizi, Yelu Xieli, Yelu Nugua, Xiao Liu, Gao Xun, Xi Heshuonu, Xiao Taliege, Yelu Sahe · 1 passage

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乾亨初，宋來侵，詔以本部兵守南京，與北院大王奚底、統軍蕭討古等逆戰，奚底等敗走，獨撒合全軍還。 Early in Qianheng, when Song invaded, an edict ordered his tribal troops to defend the Southern Capital. He joined Northern Chancellery Great King Xidi, Commander Xiao Taogu, and others to meet the enemy; Xidi's forces were routed, but Sahe alone brought his army back intact.