Overview
Yan Rong was an official and Administrator.
PeriodSui and Tang
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Death
- Granted death; died at the place where maggots had emerged from the bedchamber floor · At Rong's family sleeping chamber 榮家寢室Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passages 249-251
Attested activity
- AD 604 仁壽末Strongly inferred · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passages 249, 251, 263
- AD 589 to AD 604 幽州總管任上（平陳之後至仁壽末以前）Dated from the passage context · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passages 233, 261
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
- Parent of Yan Xun (燕詢)son 子Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 252
Career and standing
- regional commander 總管At You Province 幽州 · HeldDirectly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 261
- granted death 賜死Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 249
- recall to the capital 征還京Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 249
- execution 誅SufferedDirectly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 263
Places and affiliations
- Polity Sui 隋 · Relation ServedStrongly inferred · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passages 243, 261
- At You Province 幽州 · Relation Posted toDirectly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passages 241, 261
Works and attributed material
- 豎子何敢弄我！Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 244
- 後有罪，當免。Speech · Speaker · Direct quotationDirectly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 237
- 無過尚爾，況有過邪！Speech · Speaker · Direct quotationDirectly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 239
Events and relationships
- Appointed the eminent Lu clan of Fanyang as clerks and runners to humiliate themLegal · Official · At Fanyang 范陽Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 234
- Beat a man who protested innocence, then beat him again for a later minor fault despite the promised pardonLegal · OfficialDirectly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passages 237-240
- Flogged attendants by the thousand until blood pooled, yet ate and drank as usualLegal · OfficialDirectly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 235
- Imprisoned Hongsi and cut off his foodDirectly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 247
- On inspection tour cut roadside brambles for whips and tested them on peopleLegal · OfficialDirectly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 236
- On tours entered homes and violated officials' wives reported as beautifulPersonal · PerpetratorDirectly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 241
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- Sent Hongsi to supervise granary grain and flogged him fewer than ten strokes two or three times a day for husk or chaffDirectly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 245
- Several hu of maggots emerged from the ground in his bedchamber; he later died thereOmen · SubjectDirectly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passages 250-251
- Terrified senior officials who met himAdministrative · OfficialDirectly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 233
- Relation Enemy of · Person Yuan Hongsi (元弘嗣)Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passages 246, 261
- Relation Superior of · Person Yuan Hongsi (元弘嗣)Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passages 242, 261
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment greed, violence, and license grew daily worse · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 241
- Assessment poisonous, cruel, and corrupt · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Liu Shilong (劉士龍)Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 249
- Assessment severe and cruel by nature, with an intimidating presence · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 233
Source notes
- Historicity historicalDirectly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 87, passage 233
References in the histories
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