Yan Honglu (閻宏魯) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yan Honglu as an administrator, official, and statesman. This record brings together 13 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yan Honglu	閻宏魯	Yan Honglu
Given name	Honglu	宏魯	Honglu
Surname	Yan	閻	Yan
Personal name	Yan Honglu	閻宏魯	Yan Honglu
Personal name	Yan Honglu	閻弘魯	Yán Hónglǔ

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0149, xinwudaishi:053:s0087

Roles

Administrator
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Manner: flogged to death / 笞…肉爛而死
Explicit · xinwudaishi:053:s0093
Manner: killed by Murong Yanchao / 罹其禍 · Other Person Id: Murong Yanchao (慕容彥超)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0154, jiuwudaishi:130:s0155

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 事唐明宗、晉高祖 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 942
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:130:s0151
Source Date: Text: 慕容彥超初臨 · Western Year: AD 951
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:130:s0152
Source Date: Text: 閻弘魯 · Western Year: AD 952
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:053:s0087, xinwudaishi:053:s0103

Family

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Child of Yan Bao (閻寶)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Parent of Yan Xijun (閻希俊)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Spouse of Wife of Yan Honglu (閻弘魯之妻)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: active

Career and standing

Label: former Shanzhou vice prefect / Sima / 前陜州司馬
Explicit · xinwudaishi:053:s0087
Label: general of the Left Brave Guard / 左驍衛大將軍 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · xinwudaishi:053:s0103
Label: General of the Left Brave Guards / 左驍衛大將軍 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0161

Places and affiliations

Place: central Lu / 魯中
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0152

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: victim · Action: killed-on-accusation · Other Person Id: Murong Yanchao (慕容彥超)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0154, jiuwudaishi:130:s0155

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 130Volume 130 Book of Later Zhou 32: Biographies 10: Wang Jun, Murong Yanchao, Yan Honglu, Cui Zhoudu · 5 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.

宏魯事唐明宗、晉高祖，累歷事任。 Honglu served under Emperor Mingzong of Tang and the Jin founder, rising through a series of offices.

聞朝廷出兵堤防，即責宏魯曰：「爾教兒捍我於朝，將覆吾族耶！」 Hearing that the court was sending troops, he at once rebuked Honglu: "You taught your son to oppose me at court—do you mean to destroy my whole clan?"

太祖平兗州，詔曰：「閻宏魯、崔周度，死義之臣，禮加二等，所以滲漏澤而賁黃泉也。 When the founder pacified Yan Prefecture, an edict said, "Yan Honglu and Cui Zhoudu died for righteousness. Their rites shall be raised two grades, that seeping favor may reach them even in the yellow springs.

宏魯可贈左驍衛大將軍，周度可贈秘書少監。」 Honglu shall be posthumously made General of the Left Brave Guards; Zhoudu shall be posthumously made Vice Director of the Secretariat."

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 53Volume 53 Miscellaneous Biographies 33: Wang Jinchong, Zhao Suwan, Murong Yanchao · 8 passages

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已而見圍，因大括城中民貲以犒軍，前陜州司馬閻弘魯懼其鞭撲，乃悉家貲以獻。 When the siege closed in, he extorted the city's wealth to pay his troops. Former Shanzhou vice prefect Yan Honglu, dreading the whip, surrendered his entire estate.

彥超以為未盡，又欲並罪周度，乃令周度監括弘魯家。 Yanchao thought the sum insufficient and wished to punish Zhoudu as well, so he set Zhoudu to oversee the search of Honglu's house.

周度謂弘魯曰：「公命之死生，系財之多少，願無隱也。」 Zhoudu told Honglu: "Your life hangs on how much wealth you reveal—hide nothing."

弘魯遣家僮與周度屬刂掘搜索無所得。 Honglu sent his servants to dig with Zhoudu through every corner of the house, but nothing turned up.