Yang Yong (楊勇) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Yong as an aristocrat, general, official, and royal family member. This record brings together 12 passages from 6 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yang Yong	楊勇	Yáng Yǒng
Title	crown prince	皇太子
Title	Crown Prince	皇太子
Title	Crown Prince Yong	太子勇	Taizi Yong
Personal name	Crown Prince Yong	皇太子勇
Title	deposed Crown Prince Yong	廢太子勇
Title	Duke of Changning	長寧公
Title	Fangling	房陵
Title	Prince of Fangling	房陵王	Fánglíng Wáng
Title	the crown prince	太子
Personal	Yang Yong	楊勇	Yang Yong
Personal	Yang Yong	楊勇
Personal name	Yong	勇	Yǒng
Given	Yong	勇	Yong
Personal name	Yong	勇	Yong

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · suishu:036:s0142, suishu:043:s0049, suishu:044:s0012, suishu:061:s0033
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · zhoushu:008:s0114
Value: male
Explicit · suishu:059:s0025, suishu:059:s0265

Roles

Aristocrat
General
Official
Royal Family Member
Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 仁壽前 · Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 600
Explicit event contextual date · suishu:036:s0142
Source Date: Text: 召我兒…勇也 · Western Year: AD 604
Explicit · suishu:036:s0165
Source Date: Text: 大定元年正月 · Western Year: AD 581
Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:008:s0130
Source Date: Text: 大業二年 · Western Year: AD 606
Strongly inferred · suishu:059:s0025, suishu:059:s0265
Source Date: Text: 大象二年十二月壬申 · Western Year: AD 580
Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:008:s0114
Source Date: Text: 煬帝朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 605 · End: AD 618
Explicit event contextual date · suishu:043:s0049
Source Date: Text: 皇太子失愛已久 · Western Year: AD 600
Explicit event contextual date · suishu:061:s0033
Source Date: Text: 高祖入禁中 · Western Year: AD 580
Explicit · suishu:044:s0012

Family

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Spouse of Lady Yun (雲氏)
Kinship Term: beloved concubine / 愛妾 · Union Category: concubinage
Sibling of Sui Yangdi (隋煬帝)
Kinship Term: brother / 兄弟 · Shared Parentage: full
Sibling of Yang Liang (楊諒)
Kinship Term: brother / 同胞 · Shared Parentage: full
Spouse of Empress Yuan of Xiaozhao (元氏)
Kinship Term: consort / 妃 · Union Category: primary-marriage
Child of Emperor Wen (隋高祖)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Empress Wenxian (文獻皇后)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Parent of Changning (長寧)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Kinship Role: sons · Count: 8 · Note: Fangling sons including Changning and seven younger brothers
Explicit · suishu:061:s0131

Career and standing

Label: inspector-general of Luo Province / 洛州總管 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大定元年正月 · Western Year: AD 581
Explicit · zhoushu:008:s0130
Label: grand marshal / 大司馬 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大象二年十二月壬申 · Western Year: AD 580
Explicit · zhoushu:008:s0114
Label: superior pillar-of-state / 上柱國 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大象二年十二月壬申 · Western Year: AD 580
Explicit · zhoushu:008:s0114
Status: crown-prince · Action: held
Explicit · suishu:036:s0142
Status: deposed-crown-prince · Action: held
Explicit · suishu:044:s0012
Status: deposed · Action: suffered
Explicit · suishu:036:s0143
Status: executed · Action: suffered
Explicit · suishu:043:s0049

Places and affiliations

Polity: Sui · Relation: associated-with
Explicit event contextual date · suishu:059:s0025, suishu:059:s0265
Polity: Sui / 隋 · Relation: royal-heir
Explicit · suishu:036:s0142

Source notes

Statement: a shaman alleged that the deceased Prince of Fangling was afflicting Zhao · Provenance: Mode: reported-divination
Explicit · suishu:059:s0025

References in the histories

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Book of Sui, Chapter 36Volume 36 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 4 passages

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時皇太子多內寵，妃元氏暴薨，后意太子愛妾雲氏害之。 At that time the crown prince kept many concubines. His consort of the Yuan clan died suddenly, and the empress suspected that the prince's beloved concubine, Lady Yun, had caused her death.

由是諷上黜高熲，竟廢太子立晉王廣，皆后之謀也。 Through this she urged the emperor to dismiss Gao Jiong, and in the end the crown prince was deposed and Prince Guang of Jin was made heir. All of this was the empress's doing.

皇太子廢立之際，頗有力焉。 At the time of the crown prince's deposition and replacement, she exerted considerable influence.

述等將呼太子，上曰：「勇也。」 Xu and the others were about to summon the crown prince, but the emperor said, "Yong."

Book of Sui, Chapter 43Volume 43 Biographies 8: He Jian Wanghong, Yang Chugang, Yang Zichong, Guang De, Wang Xiong · 1 passage

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又王之昏主，心若豺狼，仇忿同胞，有逾沉、閼，惟勇及諒，咸磬甸師，況及族類為非，何能自保！ And consider your sovereign: benighted and wolf-hearted, more savage toward his own brothers than the worst villains of old. Princes Yong and Liang were wiped out to the last man—why would your branch of the family fare any better?

Book of Sui, Chapter 44Volume 44 Biographies 9: Teng Mu Wangzan, Daodao Wangjing, Caiwang Zhiji · 1 passage

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未幾，帝崩，高祖入禁中，將總朝政，令廢太子勇召之，欲有計議。 Before long the emperor died. Gaozu entered the inner palace to assume control of the government, summoned the deposed Crown Prince Yong, and intended to consult with him on strategy.

Book of Sui, Chapter 59Volume 59 Biographies 24: Three Sons of Emperor Yang · 1 passage

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帝令巫者視之，雲：「房陵王為祟。」 The emperor had a shaman look into the matter; the man said, "Prince Yong of Fangling is haunting him."

Book of Sui, Chapter 61Volume 61 Biographies 26: Yu Wenshu, Guo Yan · 3 passages

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王時陰有奪宗之志，請計於述，述曰：「皇太子失愛已久，令德不聞於天下。 The prince at that time secretly harbored the ambition to seize the succession and sought Shu's counsel. Shu said, "The Crown Prince has long since lost favor, and his virtue is not known throughout the realm.

初，定興女為皇太子勇昭訓，及勇廢，除名配少府。 Initially Dingxing's daughter had been a Brilliant Instructor to Crown Prince Yong. When Yong was deposed, her name was struck from the registers and she was assigned to the Palace Storehouse.

述因奏曰：「房陵諸子，年並成立。 Shu thereupon memorialized, "The sons at Fangling have all reached maturity.

Book of Zhou, Chapter 8Volume 8 Annals 8: Emperor Jing · 2 passages

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壬申，以大將軍、長寧公楊勇為上柱國、大司馬，小冢宰、始平西元孝矩為大司寇。 On renshen day General Yang Yong, Duke of Changning, was made superior pillar-of-state and grand marshal; Junior Steward of Tombs Yuan Xiaoju, Duke of Shiping, was made grand minister of justice.

以大司馬、長寧公楊勇為洛州總管。 Grand Marshal Yang Yong, Duke of Changning, was made inspector-general of Luo Province.