Yang Siquan (楊思權)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Siquan as a military officer and soldier. This record brings together 3 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 Siquan	楊思權	Yang Siquan
Personal name	Yang Siquan	楊思權	Yang Siquan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:065:s0124
Sex: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:007:s0013

Roles

Military Officer
Soldier

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: AD 934 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:065:s0124
Source Date: Text: 三月丙辰 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:007:s0013

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: defector · Action: surrendered · Other Person Id: Li Congke (李從珂) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三月丙辰 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit · xinwudaishi:007:s0013

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 65Volume 65 Book of Later Tang 41: Biographies 17: Li Jianji, Shi Junli, Gao Xinggui, Zhang Tingyu, Wang Sitong, Suo Zitong · 2 passages

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時羽林指揮使楊思權引軍自西門先入，思同未之知，猶督士登城。 Imperial-guard commander Yang Siquan had already slipped in through the west gate. Sitong knew nothing of it and still drove his men up the ladders.

潞王欲用之，而楊思權之徒恥見其面，屢啟劉延朗，言「思同不可留，慮失士心。」 The prince meant to keep him, but Yang Siquan and the others could not bear to look on him. They told Liu Yanlang again and again, "Sitong must not stay or we will lose the army's loyalty."

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 7Volume 7 Later Tang Annals 4: Deposed Emperors · 1 passage

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三月丙辰，思同兵潰，嚴衛指揮使尹暉、羽林指揮使楊思權以其軍叛降於從珂。 On bingchen of the third month Sitong’s force collapsed. Yin Hui of the Yanwei command and Yang Siquan of the Yulin command took their units over to Congke.