Overview
Yan was an aristocrat.
PeriodFive Dynasties
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Attested activity
- AD 907 to AD 923 岩、縠非賢，遽泯其嗣Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 14, passage 230
Family
- Kinship Role heirs · Count 0 · Negated trueDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 14, passage 230
Works and attributed material
- Historical comment · Subject · Direct quotation · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 14, passage 230
Events and relationships
- Together with Gu, extinguished their successionDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 14, passage 230
- Relation Kin of · Person Gu (縠)Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 14, passage 230
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment not worthy; the line was soon extinguished—pity · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 14, passage 230
Source notes
- Historicity historicalDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 14, passage 230
References in the histories
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