Yang Hua 楊華

Other names

Family

• Child of Yang Dayan (楊大眼)
  father 父
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 39, passage 73

• Kinship Role wife and children · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 39, passage 77

Career and standing

• Director of the Imperial Stud 太僕卿
  Held
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 39, passage 76
• Left Commandant of the Heir Apparent’s Guard 太子左衛率
  Held
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 39, passage 76
• Marquis of Yiyang county 益陽縣侯
  Enfeoffed
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 39, passage 76

Places and affiliations

• Polity Liang 梁 · Relation Defected to
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 39, passage 74
• Polity Northern Wei 魏 · Relation Fled
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 39, passage 74
• At Chouchi in Wudu 武都仇池
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 39, passage 72

Learning and skills

• Skill startling cavalry maneuvers 驚軍騎 · Level renowned
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 39, passage 68

Events and relationships

• Forced into intimacy
  Personal · Victim · With Empress Dowager Hu (胡太后)
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 39, passage 74
• Led troops to surrender
  Political · Defector
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 39, passage 74
• Surrendered after family seized
  AD 547 to AD 549 太清中 · Military · Surrenderer · With Hou Jing (侯景)
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 39, passage 77
• Won merit in campaigns
  Military · Campaigner
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 39, passage 76

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment marvel of agility; deeply admired by Emperor Wu · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 39, passage 68
• courageous and strong with heroic bearing in youth
  Physical description
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 39, passage 74

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Strongly inferred · Book of Liang 39, passage 2