Song, Liao, and Jin · Official and Statesman

Yang Xi 楊皙

Yáng Xī

Attested AD 1031 - AD 1079

Passages
3
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Xi as an aristocrat, official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 3 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yang Xi 楊皙 Yáng Xī
Courtesy Changshi 昌時 Chāngshí
Surname Yang 楊 Yáng

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 清寧初 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1055
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:089:s0049
  • Source Date: Text: 太平十一年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 11 · Western Year: AD 1031
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0045
  • Source Date: Text: 大康五年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 1079
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0055
  • Source Date: Text: 咸雍初 · Western Year: AD 1065
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:089:s0053
  • Source Date: Text: 重熙十二年 · Western Year: AD 1043
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0046

Career and standing

  • Label: Acting Commissioner of Revenue / 權度支使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0046
  • Label: Assistant Gentleman for Compilation / 著作佐郎 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0045
  • Label: Chief Secretariat Attendant of the Bureau of Military Affairs / 樞密都承旨 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0046
  • Label: Collator of the Secretariat / 秘書省校書郎 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0044
  • Label: Commissioner of the Bureau of Military Affairs / 樞密使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0053
  • Label: Commissioner of the Southern Bureau of Military Affairs / 南院樞密使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0049
  • Label: Vice Commissioner of the Bureau of Military Affairs / 樞密副使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0047
  • Label: military governor of Changning Circuit / 長寧軍節度使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0048
  • Label: prefect of Xingzhong / 知興中府 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0048, liaoshi:089:s0052
  • Label: transport commissioner of the Shanxi Route / 山西路轉運使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0048
  • Title: Duke of Zhao / 趙國公 · Action: enfeoffed
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0051
  • Title: Prince of Zhao / 趙王 · Action: enfeoffed
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0053
  • Label: Meritorious Minister of Shared Virtue / 同德功臣 · Action: bestowed
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0053
  • Label: Meritorious Minister Who Preserves Integrity / 保節功臣 · Action: bestowed
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0054
  • Title: Prince of Liaoxi Commandery / 遼西郡王 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0055
  • Status: retired · Action: entered
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0054

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: jinshi second class / 進士乙科 · Action: earned
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0045

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: favored but with few visible achievements · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0101
  • Kind: illness · Statement: foot ailment
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0052

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 89Volume 89 Biographies 19: Yelu Shucheng, Yang Ji, Yelu Hanliu, Yang Ji, Yelu Heshang · 3 passages
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