Yan Bao (閻寶) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yan Bao as a general, military officer, named individual, and rebel. This record brings together 20 passages from 8 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yan Bao	閻寶	Yan Bao
Given	Bao	寶	Bao
Given name	Bao	寶	Bao
Title	Prince of Taiyuan	太原王
Courtesy	Qiongmei	瓊美	Qiongmei
Surname	Yan	閻	Yan
Personal name	Yan Bao	閻寶	Yan Bao
Personal name	Yan Bao	阎宝	Yan Bao
Personal name		寶

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:006:s0138, xinwudaishi:003:s0039, xinwudaishi:038:s0027, xinwudaishi:044:s0071
Sex: male
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Roles

General
Military Officer
Named Individual
Rebel

Life and dates

Death

Cause: boils from shame and rage
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: AD 921 · Western Year: AD 921
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Source Date: Text: 乾化元年十月 · Western Year: AD 911
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Source Date: Text: 十九年三月 · Western Year: AD 922
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Source Date: Text: 十八年 · Western Year: AD 921
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Source Date: Text: 後唐邢州節度使 · Western Interval: Start: AD 923 · End: AD 926
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Source Date: Text: 明年三月 · Western Year: AD 922
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Source Date: Text: 是歲八月 · Western Year: AD 921
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Source Date: Text: 晉天福中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 936 · End: AD 944
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Source Date: Text: 貞明三年 · Western Year: AD 917
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Source Date: Text: 贞明二年秋七月 · Western Year: AD 916
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Source Date: Text: 閻寶從旁解承業手 · Western Interval: Start: AD 912 · End: AD 923
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Source Date: Text: 閻寶解承業手 · Western Interval: Start: AD 908 · End: AD 917
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:072:s0047

Family

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Parent of Yan Honglu (閻宏魯)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: Pacification commissioner / 招討使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十八年 · Western Year: AD 921
Explicit · xinwudaishi:044:s0086
Label: Acting Grand Mentor; Secretariat co-equal; military governor of Tianping; southeastern pacification commissioner / 檢校太尉、同中書門下平章事，領天平軍節度使、東南面招討使 · Action: appointed
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Label: imperial camp commissioner / 御營使 · Action: appointed
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Label: Military governor of Baoyi / 保義軍節度使 · Action: appointed
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Label: army chief of staff / 諸軍都虞候 · Action: held
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Label: military governor of Anguo / 安国军节度使 · Action: held
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Label: Grand Preceptor / 太師 · Action: posthumously-granted
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Title: Prince of Taiyuan / 太原王 · Action: posthumously-enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 晉天福中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 936 · End: AD 944
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Places and affiliations

Place: Yunzhou / 鄆州
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Works and attributed material

Work: Tang History / 唐書 · Relation: subject-of-biography
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang (後唐莊宗)
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned-against-Wenli
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated-by-Chujin · Other Person Id: Zhang Chujin (張處瑾) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十九年三月 · Western Year: AD 922
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Kind: military · Role: defector · Action: defected-to-Jin · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 贞明二年秋七月 · Western Year: AD 916
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Kind: political · Role: actor · Action: surrendered · Label: surrendered to Jin / 降晉
Explicit · xinwudaishi:044:s0077
Kind: military · Role: advisor · Action: urged-counterattack · Place: Huliu / 胡柳
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Relation: accused-of-siding-with · Person Id: Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠)
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Relation: former-associate-of · Person Id: Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:038:s0027
Relation: served-under · Person Id: Zhu Jin (朱瑾)
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References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 6Volume 6 Book of Later Liang 6: Taizu Annals 6 · 1 passage

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制以郢王友圭充控鶴指揮使，諸軍都虞候閻寶為御營使。 Prince of Ying Yougui was made Crane-Control commander and Yan Bao, army chief of staff, imperial camp commissioner.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 62Volume 62 Book of Later Tang 38: Biographies 14: Meng Fangli, Zhang Wenli, Dong Zhang · 2 passages

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是歲八月，莊宗遣閻寶、史建瑭及趙將符習等率王鎔本軍進討。 In the eighth month Zhuangzong sent Yan Bao, Shi Jiantan, and the Zhao general Fu Xi with Wang Rong's former army to suppress him.

十九年三月，閻寶為處瑾所敗，莊宗以李嗣昭代之。 In the third month of the nineteenth year Yan Bao was defeated by Chujin, and Zhuangzong replaced him with Li Sizhao.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 72Volume 72 Book of Later Tang 48: Biographies 24: Zhang Chengye, Zhang Juhan, Ma Shaohong, Meng Hangqiong · 2 passages

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閻寶解承業手，令退。 Yan Bao loosened Chengye's grip and made him withdraw.

承業詬寶曰：「黨朱溫逆賊，未嘗有一言效忠，而敢依阿諂附。」 Chengye reviled Bao, saying, "You sided with the rebel Zhu Wen and never once spoke a word of loyalty — yet you dare fawn and flatter."

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 130Volume 130 Book of Later Zhou 32: Biographies 10: Wang Jun, Murong Yanchao, Yan Honglu, Cui Zhoudu · 2 passages

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閻宏魯者，後唐邢州節度使寶之子也。 Yan Honglu was the son of Yan Bao, military governor of Xing Prefecture under Later Tang.

寶，《唐書》有傳。 Bao has a biography in the Tang History.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 3Volume 3 Later Liang Annals 3: Later Emperors · 1 passage

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秋七月，晋人取相州，张筠奔于京师，安国军节度使阎宝叛附于晋。 In the seventh month of autumn the Jin took Xiangzhou. Zhang Yun fled to the capital, and Yan Bao, military governor of Anguo, defected to the Jin.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 26Volume 26 Later Tang Biographies 6: Fu Xi, Wu Zhen, Kong Qian, Zhang Yanlang, Li Yan, Li Renju, Mao Zhang · 1 passage

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莊宗壯之，乃遣閻寶、史建瑭等助習討文禮，以習為鎮州兵馬留後。 Zhuangzong was moved. He sent Yan Bao and Shi Jiantan to help Xi crush Wenli and made Xi acting commander of Zhenzhou’s forces.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 38Volume 38 Biographies 18: Zhang Chengye, Zhang Juhan · 1 passage

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閻寶從旁解承業手令去，承業奮拳毆寶踣，罵曰：「閻寶，朱溫之賊，蒙晉厚恩，不能有一言之忠，而反諂諛自容邪！」 Yan Bao pulled him away; Chengye knocked him flat and raged: “Yan Bao—you were Zhu Wen’s man, Jin fed you honor, and you could not utter one honest word, only flatter and crawl?”

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 44Volume 44 Miscellaneous Biographies 24: Liu Zhijun, Ding Hui, He Delun, Yan Bao, Kang Yanxiao · 10 passages

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閻寶，字瓊美，鄆州人也。 Yan Bao, styled Qiongmei, came from Yun.

少為朱瑾牙將，瑾走淮南，寶降於梁。 As a youth he served Zhu Jin; when Jin fled to Huainan, Bao came over to Liang.

至末帝時，以寶為保義軍節度使。 Under the Last Emperor he became military governor of Baoyi.

末帝遣捉生都指揮使張溫將五百騎救寶，溫至內黃，遇晉軍，乃降晉。 The Last Emperor sent Zhang Wen of the prisoner-catching guard with five hundred horse to relieve Bao. At Neihuang Wen met Jin and went over.

晉遣溫將所降梁軍至城下招寶，寶遂降晉。 Jin sent Wen with the surrendered Liang men to call Bao from the wall; Bao came over.

晉王拜寶檢校太尉、同中書門下平章事，領天平軍節度使、東南面招討使，位在諸將上。 The Prince of Jin made him acting Grand Mentor and Secretariat co-equal, military governor of Tianping and southeastern-route pacifier, set above the other generals.

莊宗欲引兵退保臨濮，寶曰：「夫決勝料勢，決戰料情，情勢既得，斷在不疑。 Zhuangzong meant to pull back to Linpu. Bao said: “Victory is momentum; battle is spirit. Once you have both, strike without hesitation.

十八年，晉軍討張文禮於鎮州，以寶為招討使。 Year 18 the Jin host campaigned against Zhang Wenli at Zhen and made Bao pacification commissioner.

明年三月，寶戰敗，退保趙州。 Next year, third month, he lost a battle and fell back to Zhao.

晉天福中，追封太原王。 Under Jin’s Tianfu era he was posthumously made Prince of Taiyuan.