Yang Tingzhang (楊廷璋)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Tingzhang as a courtier, general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 8 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yang Tingzhang	楊廷璋	Yang Tingzhang
Descriptive kinship	the consort's younger brother Tingzhang	妃弟廷璋
Given name	Tingzhang	廷璋	Tingzhang
Personal name	Tingzhang	廷璋	Tíngzhāng
Surname	Yang	楊	Yáng
Personal name	Yang Tingzhang	楊廷璋	Yang Tingzhang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0037, xinwudaishi:019:s0016

Roles

Courtier
General
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Death

Place: private residence / 私第
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0121

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 廣順 · Western Year: AD 951
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:121:s0120
Source Date: Text: 廣順元年 · Western Year: AD 951
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:019:s0015, xinwudaishi:019:s0016
Source Date: Text: 顯德六年 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:119:s0083

Family

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Sibling of Lady of Cultivated Virtue Yang (淑妃楊氏)
Kinship Term: elder sister / 姊 · Subject Relative Age: younger
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Role: younger brother · Object Role: elder sister · Subject Relative Age: younger
Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Shared Parentage: full
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Role: elder sister · Object Role: younger brother · Subject Relative Age: elder
Child of Yang Hongyu (楊洪裕)
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

Career and standing

Label: Right Commissioner of the Soaring Dragon / 右飛龍使 · Action: appointed · Declined: true
Explicit · xinwudaishi:019:s0016
Label: military governor of Jin Prefecture / 晉州節度使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0120
Label: garrison of Yanzhou/鄜州 / 鄜州 · Action: reassigned
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0121
Label: garrison commander of Xingzhou / 鎮邢州 · Action: transferred
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0121

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Guo Wei (郭威)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:019:s0016
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0046

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: induced-surrenders-in-Hedong
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:119:s0083

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 119Volume 119 Book of Later Zhou 21: Shizong Annals 6 · 1 passage

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晉州節度使楊廷璋奏，率兵入河東界，招降堡寨一十三所。 Yang Tingzhang of Jin reported that he had led troops into the Hedong frontier and induced thirteen fortified strongholds to surrender.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 121Volume 121 Book of Later Zhou 23: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 6 passages

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〈（《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."

是年生女，為周太祖淑妃，明年生廷璋。）〉 A daughter was born that year—the future Lady of Cultivated Virtue of Emperor Taizu of Zhou—and Tingzhang was born the year after.)〉

《宋史·楊廷璋傳》：有姊寡居京師，周祖微時欲聘之，姊不從。 The 《History of Song》, Biography of Yang Tingzhang, notes that he had an elder sister, a widow in the capital; when the Zhou founder was still obscure he sought to marry her, but she refused.

令媒氏傳言恐逼，姊以告廷璋。 He sent the matchmaker back with words that sounded like threats; she told Tingzhang.

廷璋往見周祖，歸謂姊曰：「此人姿貌異常，不可拒。」 Tingzhang went to see the Zhou founder and told his sister on returning, "This man's bearing is extraordinary; you must not refuse him."

妃兄廷璋，蚤事太祖，即位累歷內職，出為晉州節度使。 Her elder brother Tingzhang had served the Emperor from early on; after the founding he held a series of inner-court posts before being appointed military governor of Jin.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 19Volume 19: Taizu of Later Zhou's Family · 1 passage

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拜妃弟廷璋為右飛龍使，廷璋辭曰：「臣父老矣，願以授之。」 He appointed the consort's younger brother Tingzhang as Right Commissioner of the Soaring Dragon. Tingzhang declined: "My father is elderly; I would rather the appointment go to him."