Five Dynasties · General and Rebel

Yang Guangyuan 楊光遠

Yáng Guāngyuǎn

Attested AD 936

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yang Guangyuan was a general and Rebel.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 936 清泰三年冬十月
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 189

Career and standing

deputy pacification commissioner of Taiyuan camp 太原行營副招討使
Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 189

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Tang 後唐 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 189

Works and attributed material

Better to stake our lives in bloody battle
Speech · Speaker · With Zhang Jingda (張敬達)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 191

Events and relationships

Killed Zhang Jingda and surrendered to Khitan
AD 936 清泰三年閏月甲子 · Violence · Perpetrator · With Zhang Jingda (張敬達)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 48, passages 189, 193

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 48Volume 48 Book of Later Tang 24: Later Emperors Annals 3 · 3 passages

甲子，太原行營副招討使楊光遠殺招討使張敬達於晉安寨，以兵降契丹。 On jiazi Yang Guangyuan, deputy pacification commissioner of the Taiyuan expeditionary camp, killed pacification commissioner Zhang Jingda at Jin'an camp and surrendered his troops to the Khitan.

楊光遠謂敬達曰：「少時人馬俱盡，不如奮命血戰，十得三四，猶勝坐受其弊。」 Yang Guangyuan said to Jingda: "Before long men and horses will all be gone. Better to stake our lives in bloody battle. If three or four out of ten survive, that is still better than sitting here and suffering defeat."

一日，光遠伺敬達無備，遂殺之，與諸將同降契丹。 One day Guangyuan watched for a moment when Jingda was unprepared, then killed him and surrendered to the Khitan together with the other generals.