Overview
The translated histories identify Yang Yin as a courtier, envoy, military officer, and official. This record brings together 130 passages from 20 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Yang Yin | 楊愔 | Yáng Yīn |
| Title | Chief Minister of the Masters of Writing | 尚書令 | Shangshu Ling |
| Alternate name | Liu Shi'an | 劉士安 | Liu Shi'an |
| Title | Magistrate Yang | 楊令 | Yang ling |
| Title | Master Liu | 劉先生 | Liu Xiansheng |
| Childhood name | Prince of Qin | 秦王 | Qin Wang |
| Surname | Yang | 楊 | Yáng |
| Surname | Yang | 楊 | |
| Surname | Yang | 楊 | Yang |
| Personal name | Yang Yin | 楊愔 | Yáng Yīn |
| Personal name | Yang Yin | 楊愔 | |
| Personal name | Yang Yin | 楊愔 | Yang Yin |
| Personal | Yang Yin | 楊愔 | Yang Yin |
| Personal name | Yang Zunyan | 楊遵彥 | Yang Zunyan |
| Personal name | Yang Zunyan | 楊遵彥 | Yáng Zūnyàn |
| Courtesy | Yang Zunyian | 楊遵彥 | Yang Zunyian |
| Personal | Yang Zunyian | 楊遵彥 | Yáng Zūnyàn |
| Given name | Yin | 愔 | Yīn |
| Given name | Yin | 愔 | |
| Given name | Yin | 愔 | Yin |
| Given | Yin | 愔 | Yin |
| Given | Zunyan | 遵彥 | |
| Given name | Zunyan | 遵彥 | Zūnyàn |
| Courtesy | Zunyian | 遵彥 | Zūnyàn |
| Courtesy name | Zunyin | 遵彥 | Zunyan |
| Title | 僕射 |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · beiqishu:007:s0007, beiqishu:033:s0091, beiqishu:035:s0012, beiqishu:040:s0096, beiqishu:046:s0078, weishu:110:s0184
Roles
- Courtier
- Envoy
- Military Officer
- Official
- Scholar
- Statesman
Life and dates
Death
- Manner: execution · Authority Person Id: Emperor Xiaozhao (孝昭帝) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾明元年二月 · Western Year: AD 560Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0086
- Manner: beheaded · Place: Imperial Treasury / 御府 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾明元年三月甲戌 · Western Year: AD 560Explicit · beiqishu:006:s0050
- Manner: executionExplicit · beiqishu:031:s0132
Age
- Age: 18 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永安初 · Western Year: AD 528Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0029
- Age: 50 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾明元年二月 · Western Year: AD 560Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0086
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 乾明元年二月乙巳 · Regnal Year: 1 · Lunar Month: 2 · Day: Sexagenary: 乙巳 · Western Year: AD 560Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:005:s0038
- Source Date: Text: 天保九年 · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 558Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:005:s0014
- Source Date: Text: Jinan regency · Western Interval: Start: AD 559 · End: AD 560Strongly inferred · beiqishu:009:s0030, beiqishu:009:s0031
- Source Date: Text: 世宗暴崩 · Western Year: AD 549Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:030:s0097
- Source Date: Text: 乾明元年 · Western Year: AD 560Explicit · beiqishu:006:s0044, beiqishu:006:s0050
- Source Date: Text: 乾明元年二月 · Western Year: AD 560Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:034:s0086
- Source Date: Text: 乾明初 · Western Year: AD 560Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:007:s0007
- Source Date: Text: 圍解還朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 555 · End: AD 557Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:046:s0078
- Source Date: Text: 天保九年 · Western Year: AD 558Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:034:s0082
- Source Date: Text: 天保初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 559Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:029:s0030
- Source Date: Text: 天保初 · Western Year: AD 550Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:034:s0078
- Source Date: Text: 天保十年 · Western Year: AD 559Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:034:s0083
- Source Date: Text: 天保至乾明 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 560Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:031:s0029, beiqishu:031:s0132
- Source Date: Text: 天統末 · Western Year: AD 569Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:034:s0087
- Source Date: Text: 尒朱榮入洛 · Western Year: AD 528Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0031
- Source Date: Text: 文宣作相 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 550Explicit · beiqishu:033:s0090, beiqishu:033:s0091
- Source Date: Text: 楊愔風流辨給 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 559Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:038:s0035
- Source Date: Text: 楊遵彥每云 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 560Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:038:s0065
- Source Date: Text: 楊遵彥逃走 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 560Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:025:s0195
- Source Date: Text: 正光中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 525Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:034:s0020
- Source Date: Text: 武定末 · Western Year: AD 550Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:034:s0077
- Source Date: Text: 永安初 · Western Year: AD 528Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:034:s0029
- Source Date: Text: 永定至天嘉 · Western Interval: Start: AD 557 · End: AD 561
- Source Date: Text: 請置學 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 559Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:036:s0037, beiqishu:036:s0077
- Source Date: Text: 謂楊遵彥曰 · Western Interval: Start: AD 543 · End: AD 549Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:047:s0078
- Source Date: Text: 顯祖時 / 天保 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 559Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:049:s0174
- Source Date: Text: 顯祖朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 559Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:040:s0096
- Source Date: Text: 高祖 · Western Interval: Start: AD 534 · End: AD 547Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:050:s0024
- Source Date: Text: 魏天平中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 534 · End: AD 537Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:035:s0012
- Source Date: Text: 齊將受禪 · Western Year: AD 550Explicit event contextual date · weishu:110:s0184
Family
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- Kin of Yuan Zigong (源子恭)Kinship Term: maternal uncle / 舅 · Subject Role: maternal-uncle · Object Role: nephew · Line: maternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Mother of Yang Yin (楊愔母)
- Kin of Yang Wei (楊暐)Kinship Term: paternal uncle / 季父 · Subject Role: paternal-uncle · Object Role: nephew · Line: paternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Yang Jin (楊津)
- Child of Yang Jin (楊津)Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
- Spouse of Princess of Taiyuan (太原長公主)Kinship Term: married / 尚 · Union Category: primary-marriage
- Child of Mother of Yang Yin (楊愔母)Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
- Kin of Yang Baoyi (楊寶猗)Kinship Term: paternal cousin / 從兄 · Line: paternal
- Kin of Yang Youqing (楊幼卿)Kinship Term: paternal cousin / 從兄 · Line: paternal
- Kin of Yang Yu (楊昱)Kinship Term: paternal cousin / 從父兄 · Line: paternal
- Kin of Yang Kan (楊侃)Kinship Term: paternal cousin / 從父兄 · Line: paternal
- Betrothed to Daughter of Ge Rong (葛榮女)Kinship Term: proposed wife / 妻 · Union Category: betrothal · Relationship State: ended
- Spouse of Concubine's Daughter of Gao Huan (高歡庶女)Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage
- Kinship Role: younger sister · Count: 1Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0089
- Kinship Role: younger cousins and nephews · Count: 10 · Quantity: 十數人Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0090
- Kinship Role: younger brothers · Count: 2Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0089
- Kinship Role: elder brother's granddaughters · Count: 3 · Quantity: 數人Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0089
- Kinship Role: brothers and cousins at school · Count: 30 · Quantity: 三十餘人Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0010
Career and standing
- Label: Attendant Gentleman of the Unimpeded Staff / 通直散騎侍郎 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 永安初 · Western Year: AD 528Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0029
- Label: Attendant Gentleman of the Yellow Gate / 給事黃門侍郎 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0073
- Label: Chief Clerk / 長史 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0073
- Label: Commissioner Equal to the Three Excellencies / 開府儀同三司 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0081
- Label: Director of the Masters of Writing / 尚書令 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 天保九年 · Western Year: AD 558Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0082
- Label: Director of the Ministry of Personnel / 吏部尚書 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 武定末 · Western Year: AD 550Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0077
- Label: General of Agile Cavalry / 驃騎大將軍 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0082
- Label: Gentleman of the Ministry of Personnel / 尚書吏部郎中 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0076
- Label: Gentleman of the Mobile Staff / 行臺郎中 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0049
- Label: Guards General / 衛將軍 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0077
- Label: Heir Apparent Junior Tutor / 太子少傅 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 天保初 · Western Year: AD 550Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0078
- Label: Left Vice Director of the Masters of Writing / 尚書左僕射 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0081
- Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0077
- Label: Regular Attendant Gentleman of the Unimpeded Staff / 通直散騎常侍 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0034
- Label: Regular Attendant Gentleman / 散騎常侍 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0074
- Label: Right Aide of the Grand Mobile Staff / 大行臺右丞 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0053
- Label: Right Vice Director of the Masters of Writing / 尚書右僕射 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0079
- Label: Special Emissary / 特進 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0082
- Label: Staff Officer of the Prince of Taiyuan / 太原公開府司馬 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0073
- Label: Supervisor of the Feathered Forest / 羽林監 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0023
- Label: Chief Minister of the Masters of Writing / 尚書令 · Action: heldExplicit · beiqishu:009:s0030
- Label: Chief Minister / 尚書令 · Action: heldExplicit · beiqishu:006:s0049
- Label: Director of the Masters of Writing / 尚書令 · Action: heldExplicit · beiqishu:005:s0038
- Label: Director of Works / 司空 · Action: posthumously-granted · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 天統末 · Western Year: AD 569Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0087
- Title: Baron of Yangxia County / 陽夏縣男 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0078
- Title: Duke of Huashan Commandery / 華山郡公 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0081
- Title: Marquis of Huayin County / 華陰縣侯 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0073
- Title: Baron of Weichang / 魏昌男 · Action: offeredExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0023
- Title: Prince of Kaifeng / 開封王 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 天保十年 · Western Year: AD 559Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0083
- Status: refused-enfeoffment · Action: declinedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0023
- Status: execution · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Emperor Xiaozhao (孝昭帝) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾明元年二月乙巳 · Regnal Year: 1 · Lunar Month: 2 · Day: Sexagenary: 乙巳 · Western Year: AD 560Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0038
- Status: execution · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Emperor Xiaozhao (孝昭帝) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾明元年二月 · Western Year: AD 560Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0086, beiqishu:034:s0166
Places and affiliations
- Polity: Eastern Wei / 東魏 · Relation: servedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0049, beiqishu:034:s0077
- Polity: Northern Qi / 北齊 · Relation: servedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0078, beiqishu:034:s0086
- Polity: Northern Wei / 魏 · Relation: servedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0003, beiqishu:034:s0029
- Place: Hongnong / 弘農Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0031
- Place: Huayin in Hongnong / 弘農華陰Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0002
- Place: Bing province / 幷州 · Relation: traveled-toExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0020
- Place: Luoyang / 洛 · Relation: returned-toExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0029
- Place: Tianheng Island / 田橫島 · Relation: resided-atExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0069
- Place: Weng Mountain / 甕山 · Relation: studied-atExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0021
Learning and skills
- Subject: Odes and Changes / 詩易 · Age: 11Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0005
- Subject: historical works / 史書 · Age: 6Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0005
- Belief: Buddhism / 佛法 · Relation: practitioner-ofExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0075
- Skill: strong memory / 聰記強識 · Level: renownedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0094
Works and attributed material
- Work: poems, fu, memorials, and legal briefs / 詩賦表奏書訟 · Relation: authorExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0179
- Work: Sacrificial text to Heaven / 祭天文 · Relation: authorExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0052
- Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0142
- Kind: memorial · Role: speaker · Quoted: false · Topic: reported Ma Siming's diagnosis to stop Dabao's commandery appointmentExplicit · beiqishu:049:s0176
- Explicit · beiqishu:038:s0065
- Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0097
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Pei Rangzhi (裴讓之) · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Yang Yin (楊愔)Explicit · beiqishu:035:s0013
- Kind: speech · Role: speakerExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0136, beiqishu:034:s0137
Events and relationships
- Kind: legal · Role: executed · Action: beheadedExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0166
- Kind: ritual · Role: mourner · Action: buried-family
- Kind: political · Role: victim · Action: executed in coup by Empress Dowager and XiaozhaoExplicit · beiqishu:009:s0031
- Kind: military · Role: participant · Action: feigned-illness-to-refuse · Other Person Id: Ge Rong (葛榮)Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0027, beiqishu:034:s0028
- Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0025
- Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0045
- Kind: personal · Role: fugitive · Action: hid · Place: Mount Song / 嵩山 · Other Person Id: Xing Shao (邢卲)Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0035
- Kind: captivity · Role: captive · Action: imprisoned · Other Person Id: Du Luozhou (杜洛周) · Place: Zhongshan / 中山Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0024
- Kind: military · Role: officer · Action: joined · Other Person Id: Gao Huan (高歡) · Place: Xindu / 信都Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0047
- Kind: political · Role: adversary · Action: kept distance and was wary of Gao Zhan · Other Person Id: Prince Zhan of Changguang (長廣王湛) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾明初 · Western Year: AD 560Explicit · beiqishu:007:s0007
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: led-van · Place: Hanling / 韓陵Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0057
- Kind: diplomatic · Role: chief-envoy · Action: mission-to · Place: Liang / 梁Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0074
- Kind: political · Role: regent · Action: received-deathbed-testamentExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0112
- Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0112
- Kind: political · Role: victim · Action: seized and executed in coupExplicit · beiqishu:006:s0049, beiqishu:006:s0050
- Kind: political · Role: victim · Action: seized-and-beatenExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0139
- Kind: legal · Role: captive · Action: seized-by · Other Person Id: Yang Kuan (楊寬) · Place: Handan / 邯鄲Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0039
- Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0032
- Kind: administrative · Role: decision-maker · Action: transferred-office · Other Person Id: Xu Zhicai (徐之才)Explicit · beiqishu:033:s0091
- Kind: political · Role: advocate · Action: urged keeping original consort LiExplicit · beiqishu:009:s0068
- Relation: friend-of · Person Id: Xing Shao (邢卲)Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0035
- Relation: ally-of · Person Id: Wei Shou (魏收)Explicit · beiqishu:035:s0082
- Relation: student-of · Person Id: Wang Xin (王昕)Uncertain · beiqishu:031:s0048
- Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Guo Xiu (郭秀)Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0066
- Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Emperor Xiaozhao (孝昭帝)Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0052
- Relation: protector-of · Person Id: Yuan Xian (袁憲)Explicit · chenshu:023:s0089
- Relation: minister-of · Person Id: Emperor Fei (廢帝殷)Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0051
- Relation: protector-of · Person Id: Wang Yu (王瑜)Explicit · chenshu:023:s0089
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: art of adaptation was not his strength · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0222
- Assessment: elegant conduct and public esteem · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0215
- Assessment: loyal yet punished · Provenance: Mode: named-person-speech · Speaker Person Id: Empress Dowager Lou (婁太后)Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0168
- Assessment: ministers sincere but failed to protect lord; brought disaster on themselves · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Other Person Ids: Yanzi Xian (燕子獻), Song Qindao (宋欽道)Explicit · beiqishu:005:s0065, beiqishu:005:s0066
- Assessment: valued Wang Xin as a model for men · Provenance: Mode: narrativeExplicit · beiqishu:031:s0029
- Kind: physical-description · Statement: one eye destroyed before deathExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0155
- Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0169
Source notes
- To: Liu Shi'an / 劉士安 · Reason: flightExplicit · beiqishu:034:s0068
References in the histories
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