Yang Wentong (楊文通)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Wentong as a general. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yang Wentong	楊文通	Yáng Wéntōng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · chenshu:020:s0114

Roles

General

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 光大元年 · Western Year: AD 567
Explicit event contextual date · chenshu:020:s0114

Career and standing

Label: Provisional Credentials, Crowned-with-Martiality General / 假節、冠武將軍 · Action: held
Explicit · chenshu:020:s0114

References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 20Volume 20: Dao Zhongju; Han Zigao; Hua Jiao · 2 passages

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是時慮皎先發，乃前遣明徹率眾三萬，乘金翅直趨郢州，又遣撫軍大將軍淳于量率眾五萬，乘大艦以繼之，又令假節、冠武將軍楊文通別從安 Fearing Jiao would move first, they sent Mingche with thirty thousand men in Golden-Wing ships straight for Yingzhou, and pacifying-the-army grand general Chunyu Liang with fifty thousand in great ships behind him, and ordered provisional-credentials crowned-with-martiality general Yang Wentong by a separate route from An

先是，詔又遣司空徐度與楊文通等自安成步出湘東，以襲皎後。 Earlier an edict had also sent Xu Du, minister of works, with Yang Wentong and others out from Ancheng overland through eastern Xiang to hit Jiao from behind.