Overview
The translated histories identify Yan Ying as an aristocrat, named individual, official, and statesman. This record brings together 27 passages from 11 chapters across 5 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Yan Ying | 晏 | Yan |
| Courtesy | Ping Zhong | 平仲 | Ping Zhong |
| Personal | Yan | 晏 | Yan |
| Surname | Yan | 晏 | Yan |
| Surname | Yan | 晏 | Yàn |
| Alternate name | Yan Pingzhong | 晏平仲 | Yan Pingzhong |
| Personal | Yan Ying | 晏 | Yan Ying |
| Personal name | Yan Ying | 晏嬰 | |
| Personal name | Yan Ying | 晏嬰 | Yan Ying |
| Personal name | Yan Ying | 晏嬰 | Yàn Yīng |
| Personal | Yan Ying | 晏嬰 | Yan Ying |
| Alternate | Yan Zi | 晏子 | Yan Zi |
| Personal name | Yanzi | 晏子 | Yanzi |
| Given | Ying | 嬰 | Ying |
| Given name | Ying | 嬰 | Yīng |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: male
- Sex: male
- Value: maleStrongly inferred · shiji:074:s0050
Roles
- Aristocrat
- Named Individual
- Official
- Statesman
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: BC 556-500 · Western Interval: Start: BC 556 · End: BC 500Strongly inferred · houhanshu:032:s0130
- Source Date: Text: 事齊靈公、莊公、景公 · Western Interval: Start: BC 581 · End: BC 500Explicit event contextual date · shiji:062:s0036
- Western Interval: Start: BC 589 · End: BC 500 · Source Date: Text: 其諫說，慕晏嬰之為人也，然而承意觀色為務。Strongly inferred · shiji:074:s0050
- Source Date: Text: 後百餘年而有晏子焉 · Western Year: c. BC 545Explicit event contextual date · shiji:062:s0034
- Source Date: Text: 春秋之世 · Western Interval: Start: BC 580 · End: BC 500Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:031:s0161
- Source Date: Text: 春秋齊 · Western Year: BC 500Strongly inferred · zhoushu:023:s0360
- Source Date: Text: 時人比之晏嬰 · Western Interval: Start: BC 589 · End: BC 500Explicit · weishu:030:s0081
- Source Date: Text: 談者皆擬於阿衡 · Western Year: BC 500Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:099:s0067
- Source Date: Text: 齊景公時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 548 · End: BC 490Explicit event contextual date · shiji:064:s0002, shiji:064:s0004
Family
- Kinship Role: concubines · Quantity: plural-unspecified · Statement: concubines did not wear silkExplicit · shiji:062:s0037
Career and standing
- Label: prime minister of Qi / 相齊 · Action: heldExplicit · shiji:062:s0037, shiji:062:s0054
Places and affiliations
- Polity: Qi / 齊 · Relation: served
- Place: Yiwei in Lai / 萊之夷維Explicit · shiji:062:s0035
Works and attributed material
- Work: Yan Zi's Spring and Autumn / 晏子春秋 · Relation: authorExplicit · shiji:062:s0064
- Explicit · shiji:064:s0004
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Units: s0047Explicit · shiji:062:s0047
Events and relationships
- Kind: political · Role: recommender · Action: recommended-as-grand-officer · Other Person Id: Charioteer of Yan Ying (晏子車御)Explicit · shiji:062:s0063
- Explicit · shiji:062:s0044
- Explicit · shiji:062:s0071
- Relation: served · Person Id: Duke Zhuang of Qi (齊莊公)Explicit · shiji:062:s0036
- Relation: served · Person Id: Duke Jing of Qi (齊景公)Explicit · shiji:062:s0036
- Relation: served · Person Id: Duke Ling of Qi (齊靈公)Explicit · shiji:062:s0036
- Relation: recommender-of · Person Id: Rangju (穰苴)Explicit · shiji:064:s0004
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: conduct admired by Chunyu Kun · Provenance: Mode: narrative · Witness Person Id: Chunyu Kun (淳于髡)Explicit · shiji:074:s0050
- Assessment: famous among the feudal lords for three generations · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · shiji:062:s0042
- Assessment: in civil affairs can win troop allegiance; in martial affairs can overawe the enemy · Other Person Id: Rangju (穰苴) · Provenance: Mode: named-speech · Speaker Person Id: Yan Ying (晏)Explicit · shiji:064:s0004
- Assessment: remonstrated to the point of offending the ruler · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · shiji:062:s0072
- Assessment: see what is right and act with courage · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · shiji:062:s0071
- Assessment: worthy grandee; wore one fox-fur thirty years; left one cart · Provenance: Mode: speech · Speaker Person Id: Ma Yao (麻瑤)Explicit · zhoushu:023:s0360, zhoushu:023:s0361
- Kind: character · Statement: frugal and diligently uprightExplicit · shiji:062:s0036, shiji:062:s0037
- Kind: physical-description · Statement: less than six chi tallExplicit · shiji:062:s0058
- Item: left trace horse / 左驂 · Relation: used-to-redeemExplicit · shiji:062:s0044
References in the histories
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