Yang Hongyu (楊洪裕)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Hongyu as an administrator, family member, and official. This record brings together 4 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yang Hongyu	楊洪裕	Yang Hongyu
Personal name	Hongyu	洪裕	Hongyu
Alternate name	Hongyu	宏裕	Hongyu
Personal name	Hongyu	弘裕	Hóngyù
Surname	Yang	楊
Surname	Yang	楊	Yáng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0033, xinwudaishi:019:s0009

Roles

Administrator
Family Member
Official

Life and dates

Age

Statement: too old to travel
Explicit · xinwudaishi:019:s0018

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 廣順元年 · Western Year: AD 951
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:019:s0015, xinwudaishi:019:s0018
Source Date: Text: 河朔三鎮全盛之時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 900 · End: AD 921
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:121:s0033, jiuwudaishi:121:s0038

Family

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Parent of Lady of Cultivated Virtue Yang (淑妃楊氏)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Parent of Yang Tingzhang (楊廷璋)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Spouse of Mother of Lady Yang (淑妃楊氏之母)
Union Category: marriage

Career and standing

Label: vice prefect of Zhending / 真定少尹 · Action: appointed-at-home
Explicit · xinwudaishi:019:s0018
Label: Grand Master of Splendid Happiness with Golden Seal and Purple Ribbon / 金紫光祿大夫 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:019:s0018
Label: Vice Magistrate of Zhending / 真定少尹 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0033
Label: vice prefect of Zhending / 真定少尹 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:019:s0009

Source notes

Field: given-name · Statement: 洪裕 vs 宏裕 · Witness: Eastern Capital Miscellany / 東都事略
Textual variant · jiuwudaishi:121:s0033, jiuwudaishi:121:s0035

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 121Volume 121 Book of Later Zhou 23: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 2 passages

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父洪裕，真定少尹。 Her father Hongyu served as Vice Magistrate of Zhending.

〈（《東都事略·楊廷璋傳》云：父宏裕，少漁貂裘陂，有以二石雁授之者，其翼一掩左，一掩右，曰：「吾北嶽使也。」 (The 《Eastern Capital Miscellany》, Biography of Yang Tingzhang, relates that his father Hongyu fished as a youth at Diaojiuqi Pond when someone presented him with two stone geese, one wing covering the left and one the right, saying, "I am an envoy of the Northern Peak."

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 19Volume 19: Taizu of Later Zhou's Family · 2 passages

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父弘裕，真定少尹。 Her father Hongyu served as vice prefect of Zhending.

即召弘裕，弘裕老不能行，乃就其家拜金紫光祿大夫、真定少尹。 He immediately summoned Hongyu. Too frail to travel, Hongyu received at home the titles Grand Master of Splendid Happiness with Golden Seal and Purple Ribbon and vice prefect of Zhending.