Ancient China · Official and Statesman

Yan Ying 晏嬰

Attested BC 547 - BC 500

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yan Ying was an official and Statesman.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 547 to BC 500 管、晏之屬
Strongly inferred · Book of Han 65, passage 370

Places and affiliations

Polity Qi 齊 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Han 65, passage 370

Assessments and attributes

Assessment hegemon's assistant, likely unequal to Dong Zhongshu · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Liu Xiang (劉向)
Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 370

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 65Volume 56: Dong Zhongshu · 2 passages

贊曰：劉向稱：「董仲舒有王佐之材，雖伊、呂亡以加，管、晏之屬，伯者之佐，殆不及也。」 The encomium says: Liu Xiang wrote, "Dong Zhongshu had the talent to assist a true king. Even Yi Yin and Lü Wang could add nothing to him; Guan Zhong and Yan Ying, ministers to hegemons, likely fell short."

然考其師友淵源所漸，猶未及乎游、夏，而曰管、晏弗及，伊、呂不加，過矣。」 Yet weighed against the lineage that produced Ziyou and Zixia, to call Guan and Yan his inferiors and rank him with Yi and Lü is going too far."