Yan Rong 燕榮

Other names

Family

• Child of Yan Kan (燕偘)
  father 父
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 95
• Child of Mother of Yan Rong (燕榮母)
  mother 母
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 105
• Parent of Yan Xun (燕詢)
  son 子
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 136

Career and standing

• Campaign Commander 行軍總管
  AD 588 to AD 589 伐陳之役 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 107
• Acting General-in-Chief of Yangzhou 檢校揚州總管
  AD 589 伐陳後 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 110
• Grand Master for Splendid Happiness with independent establishment 開府儀同三司
  AD 575 to AD 577 伐齊以功 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 97
• Governor of Jinzhou 晉州刺史
  AD 581 高祖受禪 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 98
• Campaign Commander 行軍總管
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 112
• Superior Attendant of the Inner Palace 內侍上士
  AD 557 to AD 581 仕周 · Held
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 96

Places and affiliations

• Polity Northern Zhou 周 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passages 96-97
• Polity Sui 隋 · Relation Served
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 74, passage 98
• At Hongnong in Huayin 華陰弘農
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 94
• AD 588 to AD 589 伐陳之役
  At Donglai 東萊 · Relation Traveled through
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 107
• AD 581 高祖受禪
  At Jinzhou 晉州 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 98
• At Hongnong 弘農 · Relation Native of
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 94

Learning and skills

• Skill martial arts 武藝
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 96

Works and attributed material

• Edict · Addressee · Direct quotation · With Gaozu (高祖)
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 126
• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Yuan Hongsi (元弘嗣) · Mode quotation Speaker Yan Rong (燕榮)
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 127
• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passages 119, 121

Events and relationships

• Appointed Lu clan of Fanyang as lowly clerks to humiliate them
  Administration · Governor · At Fanyang 范陽
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 116
• Assigned granary duty and repeatedly beat short of ten strokes
  Legal · Official · With Yuan Hongsi (元弘嗣)
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passages 128-129
• Attacked Turks
  AD 583 從河間王弘擊突厥 · Military · Officer · With Prince of Hejian Hong (河間王弘)
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 99
• Beat a man who protested a promised pardon
  Legal · Official
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passages 120-122
• Farewell banquet in inner palace
  Ritual · Honoree · At inner palace 內殿 · With Gaozu (高祖)
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 106
• Flogged attendants to a thousand strokes while eating calmly
  Legal · Official
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 117

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment greatly approved · Assessor Person Id Gaozu (高祖) · Mode named-person Source Person Id Gaozu (高祖)
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 103
• Assessment greed, cruelty, and license grew worse by the day · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 124
• Assessment stern and cruel, with a formidable bearing; chief clerks lost composure in fear · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 115
• Assessment stern and martial by nature · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 96
• Assessment travelers from other jurisdictions feared him as bandits · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 102

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 94
• Maggots suddenly appeared by the bushel in his bedchamber, burrowing up from the ground, and he later died at that spot.
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passages 134-135