Overview
Yang Xilang was an eunuch and Attendant.
PeriodFive Dynasties
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Attested activity
- AD 924 同光二年Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 31, passage 162
- AD 923 to AD 925 莊宗Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passages 39, 42, 48
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
- Descendant of Fu Gong (楊復恭)collateral grandson 從孫 · Uncertain parentage · 2 generationsDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 39
- Kin of Yang Fuguang (楊復光)grand-uncle 叔祖 · 2 generationsDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 43
- Sibling of Yanbo (彥博)elder clansman 伯氏 · Uncertain siblingsDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 44
- Child of Father of Yang Xilang (楊希朗之父)father 父 · Uncertain parentageStrongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 39
- Kinship Role brothers · Quantity unspecified · Kinship Term all our brothers 諸昆仲Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 44
Key source chapters
Career and standing
- inner attendant 內官Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 39
- favored attendant 幸臣Favored attendantDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 47
Places and affiliations
- Polity Later Tang 後唐 · Relation ServedDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 42
Works and attributed material
- Oral appeal · Speaker · With Zhao Guangyun (趙光允) · Direct quotationDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passages 43-45
Events and relationships
- Cited precedent to claim Fu Gong's former estatesDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 39
- Tearfully appealedDirectly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 58, passage 42
References in the histories
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