Yang Yanwen (楊彥溫)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Yanwen as a military officer, rebel, and soldier. This record brings together 15 passages from 4 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yang Yanwen	楊彥溫	Yang Yanwen
Personal name	Yang Yanwen	楊彥溫	Yang Yanwen
Personal	Yang Yanwen	楊彥溫	Yáng Yànwēn
Given	Yanwen	彥溫	Yanwen

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:065:s0153, jiuwudaishi:074:s0136
Sex: male
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Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:066:s0144

Roles

Military Officer
Rebel
Soldier

Life and dates

Death

Manner: beheaded after city fell
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: AD 926-934 · Western Year: AD 926
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Source Date: Text: 天成中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 930
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Source Date: Text: 明宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 933
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Source Date: Text: 晉兵戰梁於河上 · Western Interval: Start: AD 912 · End: AD 923
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Source Date: Text: 長興元年四月 · Western Year: AD 930
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Family

Kinship Role: clan · Note: clan destroyed after rebellion · Quantity: entire clan
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Career and standing

Label: chief commander of the inner guards / 衙內都指揮使 · Action: appointed
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Later Liang / 後梁 · Relation: served
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Polity: Later Tang / 後唐 · Relation: served
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Place: Bian Prefecture / 汴州
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Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Li Congke (李從珂) · Quoted: true
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Last Emperor (末帝)
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Events and relationships

Kind: rebellion · Role: leader · Action: rebelled · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興元年四月 · Western Year: AD 930
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: deserves pity among rebels for being driven by others · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Assessment: foolish and incited by others · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 65Volume 65 Book of Later Tang 41: Biographies 17: Li Jianji, Shi Junli, Gao Xinggui, Zhang Tingyu, Wang Sitong, Suo Zitong · 2 passages

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楊彥溫據河中作亂，自通率師討平之，授河中節度使。 When Yang Yanwen seized Hezhong, Zitong marched against him, crushed the revolt, and was made commissioner of Hezhong.

初，自通既平楊彥溫，代末帝鎮河中，臨事失於周旋，末帝深銜之。 After he crushed Yang Yanwen, Zitong replaced the Last Emperor as governor of Hezhong. He handled affairs clumsily, and the Last Emperor nursed a deep grudge.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 66Volume 66 Book of Later Tang 42: Biographies 8: an Zhonghui, Zhu Hongzhao, Zhu Hongshi, Kang Yicheng, Yao Yanchou, Song Lingxun · 1 passage

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屬河中指揮使楊彥溫作亂，彥稠改侍衛步軍都指揮使，充河中副招討使，將兵討平之。 Yang Yanwen's Hedong revolt made him Foot commander and deputy pacifier; he crushed the rebellion.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 74Volume 74 Book of Later Tang 50: Biographies 126: Kang Yanxiao, Zhu Shouyin, Yang Li, Dou Tingwan, Zhang Qianzhao, Yang Yanwen · 10 passages

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楊彥溫，汴州人，本梁朝之小校也。 Yang Yanwen was a native of Bian and had begun as a junior officer in the Liang army.

天成中，為河中副指揮使，及末帝鎮河中，尤善待之，因奏為衙內都指揮使。 During Tiancheng he served as deputy commander at Hezhong. When the Last Emperor governed there, he treated Yanwen with special favor and had him appointed chief commander of the inner guards.

長興元年四月，乘末帝閱馬於黃龍莊，據城謀叛。 In the fourth month of the first year of Changxing, while the Last Emperor was inspecting horses at Yellow Dragon Manor, Yanwen seized the city and rebelled.

彥溫報曰：「某非敢負恩，緣奉樞密院宣頭，令某拒命，請相公但歸朝廷。」 Yanwen replied, "I do not mean to repay your kindness with treachery. I am acting on an order from the Bureau of Military Affairs telling me to resist you. I ask only that you return to court."

明宗疑其詐，不欲興兵，授彥溫絳州刺史。 Mingzong suspected a ruse and refused to send troops. He appointed Yanwen prefect of Jiang.

初，彥稠出師，明宗戒之曰：「與朕生致彥溫，吾將自訊之。」 Before Yao Yanchou marched out, Mingzong warned him, "Bring Yanwen to me alive. I mean to question him myself."

及收城，斬首傳送，明宗深怒彥稠等。 When the city fell, they beheaded Yanwen and sent his head to court. Mingzong was furious with Yao Yanchou and his officers.

時議者以當時四海恬然，五兵載戢，蒲非邊郡，近在國門，而彥溫安敢狂悖。 Contemporaries noted that the realm was at peace and arms had been laid aside. Pu was no frontier post but lay at the capital's doorstep. How could Yanwen dare such madness?

彥溫愚昧，為人所嗾，故滅其族焉。 Yanwen was a fool used by others, and for that his whole clan was destroyed.

唯虔釗因避地以偷生，彥溫乃為人之所嗾，比諸叛臣，亦可矜也。 Only Qianzhao, who fled to preserve his life, and Yanwen, who was driven by others, deserve some pity when set beside the other rebels in this chapter.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 7Volume 7 Later Tang Annals 4: Deposed Emperors · 2 passages

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是時，明宗春秋已高，王於諸子次最長，樞密使安重誨患之，乃矯詔河中裨將楊彥溫使圖之。 Mingzong was old by then, and the Prince of Lu outranked every other son. An Chonghui, who controlled the Bureau of Military Affairs, grew alarmed and forged orders for Yang Yanwen, a Hezhong subordinate, to move against him.

王閱馬於黃龍莊，彥溫即閉門拒之，王止於虞鄉以聞。 While the prince exercised horses at Yellow Dragon Manor, Yanwen barred the gates. He camped at Yuxiang and sent word to the throne.