Yang Shou 楊收

Other names

Family

• Ancestor of Yang She (楊涉)
  grandfather 祖 · paternal line · 2 generations
  Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 35, passage 29
• Descendant of Yang Su (楊素)
  ancestor 裔 · paternal line
  Uncertain · New Book of Tang 184, passage 26
• Sibling of Yang Jia (楊假)
  elder brother 兄 · Uncertain siblings
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passages 67, 72
• Sibling of Yang Fa (楊發)
  elder brother 兄 · Uncertain siblings
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 119
• Parent of Yang Yan (楊嚴)
  father 父 · paternal line
  Strongly inferred · New History of the Five Dynasties 35, passages 29-30
• Child of Yang Yizhi (楊遺直)
  father 父
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 27
• Child of Mother of Yang Shou (長孫氏)
  mother 母
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 29
• Parent of Yang Ju (楊鉅)
  son 子
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 116
• Parent of Yang Lin (楊鏻)
  son 子
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 116
• Sibling of Yang Yan (楊嚴)
  younger brother 弟 · Uncertain siblings
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passages 110, 112

• Kinship Role associates punished with exile on his account · Count 11
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 114

Origins and identity

• Ancestor Person Id Yang Su (楊素) · Self claimed · Mode self-report Speaker Yang Shou (楊收)
  Uncertain · New Book of Tang 184, passage 26

Career and standing

• Administrative Aide on Cui Xian’s Huainan Staff 淮南支使
  Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 90
• Attendant Censor 侍御史
  Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 91
• Judge on Du Cong’s Military Staff 節度府判官
  Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 74
• Revenue Case Judge 判度支案
  Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 92
• Vice Prefect of Duanzhou 端州司馬
  Demoted
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 105
• Surveillance Commissioner of Xuanshe 宣歙觀察使
  Dismissed to
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 103

Places and affiliations

• Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 183, passage 44
• Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 183, passage 83
• At Fengyi 馮翊 · Relation Family residence
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 26

Learning and skills

• Student · Teacher Person Id Mother of Yang Shou (長孫氏) · Subject classics 經 · Mastery Age 13
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 29
• Earned
  Credential Presented Scholar 進士
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 69
• Practice abstained from meat from childhood at his mother’s direction
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passages 35-36
• Skill musical pitch identification 知音 · Level expert
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passages 37-38
• Skill literary composition 屬文 · Level prodigious
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passages 30-31

Works and attributed material

• Last speech and letter · Author · Addressed to Emperor Yizong (懿宗) · Summary accepted responsibility and begged that Yang Yan be spared to continue ancestral sacrifices · Mode direct-quotation-and-document Speaker Yang Shou (楊收)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passages 109-113
• Policy advice · Speaker · Addressed to Du Cong (杜悰) · Summary opposed a military-agricultural colony because it would weaken Yao and Xi and aid invaders · Mode direct-quotation Speaker Yang Shou (楊收)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passages 76-80
• Music discourse · Speaker · Addressed to An Shu (安涚) · Summary explained qin strings, ritual pitch systems, ancient sacrificial music, and rotating keys · Mode direct-quotation Speaker Yang Shou (楊收)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passages 39, 41, 43-65
• Memorial · Author · Summary argued that imperial banners should not be administered by the Court of the Imperial Stud · Mode direct-quotation Speaker Yang Shou (楊收)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passages 86-88
• Policy proposal · Author · Summary proposed recruiting thirty thousand Yuzhang troops and establishing the Army to Pacify the South · Mode narrative-attribution Speaker Yang Shou (楊收)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 96
• Quip · Speaker · Summary mocked the crowd that broke his fence · Mode direct-quotation Speaker Yang Shou (楊收)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 32

Events and relationships

• Did not come to a peaceful end
  AD 860 to AD 874 咸通中 · Political · Subject
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 183, passage 83
• Escorted a coffin with his brothers for burial at Yanshi
  Funerary · Escort · Attendance 1000
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 129
• Identified an excavated ancient bell as the Guxian jue pitch
  Antiquarian
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passages 37-38
• Proposed recruiting thirty thousand Yuzhang troops and founding the Army to Pacify the South
  Military policy · Planner
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 96
• Refused a large official boat and traveled in two small boats
  Travel · Exile
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passages 106-107
• Refused to yield to censors and was humiliated by Feng Jian
  Official dispute · Victim
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 19

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment became self-important and ostentatious; his dependents committed abuses · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 100
• Assessment called a prodigy by the people of Wu · Mode collective-reputation
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 30
• Assessment did not come to a peaceful end, matching a calendrical prediction · Mode named-source-report Source Work calendrical expert of the Xiantong era 咸通中治歷者
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 183, passages 81-83
• Assessment Ma Zhi admired his refusal to precede his elder brother · Mode named-person-assessment Source Person Id Ma Zhi (馬植)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 73
• Assessment quiet, broadly learned, exceptionally retentive, and master of many arts · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 34
• Assessment refused commissioners’ allowances and left seven million cash in the treasury · Mode narrative-assessment
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 103

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 183, passages 44, 83