Yan (晏) | 24 Histories

Overview

Yan was a Landowner and Clan Leader.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1228 to AD 1233 紹定間
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 460, passages 205, 207

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Son of Yan
son 子
Directly stated · History of Song 460, passage 206
Spouse of Husband of Yan
wife 婦 · Widowed
Directly stated · History of Song 460, passages 205-206

Career and standing

Granted
Item cap and sash 冠帔
Directly stated · History of Song 460, passage 220
Lady 恭人
Enfeoffed
Directly stated · History of Song 460, passage 220
Refused remarriage
Widow
Directly stated · History of Song 460, passage 206

Places and affiliations

At Ninghua, Tingzhou 汀州寧化
Directly stated · History of Song 460, passage 205
At Ever-Peace stockade 萬安 · Relation Stockade named
Directly stated · History of Song 460, passage 219

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Extent s0209, s0210 · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Yan (晏)
Directly stated · History of Song 460, passages 209-210

Events and relationships

Beat the drum while maids struck gongs; bandits were driven back
Military · Commander
Directly stated · History of Song 460, passages 212-213
Distributed Chen Wei's gold, silks, and paper currency to followers and militia
Gift · Recipient · With Chen Wei (陳韡)
Directly stated · History of Song 460, passages 218-219
Divided Yellow Ox Mountain into five stockades with militia in mutual support
Military · Commander · With Wang Wanquan (王萬全), Wang Lun (王倫)
Directly stated · History of Song 460, passage 216
Foremost in supplying troops and grain against bandits
Military · Supplier
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 460, passage 207
Founded her own stockade on Yellow Ox Mountain
Military · Commander
Directly stated · History of Song 460, passage 208
Preserved tens of thousands of old and young
Rescue · Protector
Directly stated · History of Song 460, passage 217

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Sheltered neighboring families and fed those who could not support themselves
Refuge · Protector
Directly stated · History of Song 460, passages 214-215
Relation Ally of · Person Wang Lun (王倫)
Directly stated · History of Song 460, passages 207, 216
Relation Ally of · Person Wang Wanquan (王萬全)
Directly stated · History of Song 460, passages 207, 216

Assessments and attributes

Item jewelry 首飾 · Relation Given to tenant fighters
Directly stated · History of Song 460, passage 211

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History of Song, Chapter 460Volume 460 Biographies 219: Exemplary Women: Zhu E, Zhang Shi, Peng Lienu, Hao Jiee, Zhu Shi, Cui Shi, Zhao Shi, Ding Shi, Xiang Shi, Wang Shierfu, Xu Shi, Rong Shi, He Shi, Dong Shi, Tan Shi, Liu Shi, Zhang Shi, Shi Shi, Chen Tangqian, Jie Fuliaoshi, Liu Dangkemu, Ceng Shifu, Wang Maoqi, Tu Duanyouqi, Zhan Shinu, Liu Shengqi, Xie Biqi, Xie Fangdeqi, Wang Zhenfu, Zhao Huaiqie, Tan Shifu, Wu Zhongfuqi, Lu Zhong Zhunu, Lin Laonu, Tong Shinu, Han Shinu, Wang Shifu, Liutong Ziqi Mao Xixi · 8 passages

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曾氏婦晏，汀州寧化人。 Yan, wife of the Zeng clan, was from Ninghua in Tingzhou.

紹定間，寇破寧化縣，令佐俱逃，將樂縣宰黃垺令土豪王萬全、王倫結約諸砦以拒賊，晏首助兵給糧，多所殺獲。 During the Shaoding era bandits overran Ninghua County; officials all fled. Huang Fou, magistrate of Jiangle, organized local strongmen Wang Wanquan and Wang Lun to rally the stockades against the bandits; Yan was foremost in supplying troops and grain, and many enemies were killed or captured.

賊忿其敗，結集愈眾，諸砦不能禦，晏乃依黃牛山傍，自為一砦。 Enraged at their defeats, the bandits gathered in greater numbers and the stockades could not hold. Yan then established her own stockade on Yellow Ox Mountain.

一日，賊遣數十人來索婦女金帛，晏召其田丁諭曰：“汝曹衣食我家，賊求婦女，意實在我。 One day the bandits sent dozens of men to demand women and valuables. Yan summoned her tenant farmers and said: 'You live at my household's expense; when they demand women, their target is really me.

晏自捶鼓，使諸婢鳴金，以作其勇。 Yan herself beat the drum while her maidservants struck gongs to rouse their courage.

有不能自給者，晏悉以家糧助之。 Those who could not support themselves she aided with household grain.

知南劍州陳韡遣人遺以金帛，晏悉散給其下； Chen Wei, prefect of Nanjian, sent gold and silks; Yan distributed them all to her followers;

事聞，詔特封晏為恭人，仍賜冠帔，其子特與補承信郎。 When word reached the court, an edict enfeoffed Yan as Lady with cap and sash, and specially appointed her son Gentleman for Trust.