Dates uncertain · Official

Yang Xian 楊憲

Attested AD 1368 - AD 1371

Passages: 7
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Xian as an official. This record brings together 7 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yang Xian	楊憲	Yang Xian
Personal name	Yang Xian	楊憲	Yang Xian
Personal name	Yang Xian	楊憲

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · mingshi:127:s0059

Roles

Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0129

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 楊憲 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1368 · End: AD 1371
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:127:s0059, mingshi:127:s0125
Source Date: Text: 洪武元年 · Western Year: AD 1368
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:115:s0020, mingshi:115:s0015

Career and standing

Label: 詹事丞 · Action: concurrent
Explicit · mingshi:115:s0020
Label: 中書參政 · Action: held
Explicit · mingshi:115:s0020

Events and relationships

Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Wang Guangyang (汪廣洋)
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0126
Relation: tutor-of · Person Id: Zhu Biao (朱標)
Explicit · mingshi:115:s0020, mingshi:115:s0021

References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 115Volume 115 Biographies 3: Emperor Xingzong Xiaokang, Emperor Ruizong Xingxian · 1 passage

於是左丞相李善長兼太子少師，右丞相徐達兼太子少傅，中書平章錄軍國重事常遇春兼太子少保，右都督馮宗異兼右詹事，中書平章政事胡廷端、廖永忠、李伯升兼同知詹事院事，中書左、右丞趙庸、王溥兼副詹事，中書參政楊憲兼詹事丞，傅瓛兼詹事，同知大都督康茂才、張興祖兼左右率府使，大都督府副使顧時、孫興祖同知左右率府事，僉大都督府事吳楨、耿炳文兼左右率府副使，御史大夫鄧愈、湯和兼諭德，御史中丞劉基、章溢兼贊善大夫，治書侍御史文原吉、范顯祖兼太子賓客。 Li Shanchang, left chancellor, became junior tutor; Xu Da, right chancellor, junior mentor; Chang Yuchun, associate director for military affairs, junior guardian; Feng Zongyi, right commissioner, right household master; Hu Tingduan, Liao Yongzhong, and Li Bosheng, associate directors, associate household masters; Zhao Yong and Wang Pu, vice directors, deputy household masters; Yang Xian, participating secretary, household master assistant; Fu Rong, household master; Kang Maocai and Zhang Xingzu, associate capital commissioners, left and right rate-office commandants; Gu Shi and Sun Xingzu, deputy commissioners, associate commandants; Wu Zhen and Geng Bingwen, commissioners, deputy commandants; Deng Yu and Tang He, censors-in-chief, preceptors; Liu Ji and Zhang Yi, vice censors-in-chief, senior companions; Wen Yuanji and Fan Xianzu, investigating secretaries, crown prince's guests.

History of Ming, Chapter 127Volume 127 Biographies 15: Li Shanzhang, Wang Guangyang · 6 passages

太祖所任張昶、楊憲、汪廣洋、胡惟庸皆獲罪，善長事寄如故。 Zhang Chang, Yang Xian, Wang Guangyang, and Hu Weiyong, whom the throne had raised, all fell for crime, yet Shanzhang's trust held.

時右丞楊憲專決事。 Right Vice Director Yang Xian then monopolized affairs.

廣洋依違之，猶為所忌，嗾御史劾廣洋奉母無狀。 Guangyang temporized and was still resented; Yang Xian set censors to accuse him of failing in filial duty toward his mother.

憲再奏，徙海南。 Yang Xian memorialized again and he was exiled to Hainan.

憲誅，召還。 After Yang Xian was executed, Guangyang was recalled.

舟次太平，帝追怒其在江西曲庇文正，在中書不發楊憲奸，賜敕誅之。 At Taiping the Emperor's anger flared anew over his shielding of Wen Zheng in Jiangxi and his failure to expose Yang Xian at the Secretariat, and an edict ordered his death.