Sui and Tang · Administrator

Yang Zichong 楊子崇

Attested AD 581 - AD 618

Passages: 17
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Zichong as an administrator, general, and official. This record brings together 17 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 Zichong	楊子崇	Yang Zichong
Personal name	Yang Zigong	楊子崇	Yang Zichong
Given	Zichong	子崇	Zichong
Given	Zigong	子崇	Zichong

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · suishu:043:s0094
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · suishu:072:s0224

Roles

Administrator
General
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: killed when the righteous army rose · Body Treatment: corpse cast below the city walls
Explicit · suishu:072:s0225
Manner: killed by enemies / 為仇家所殺 · Place: Lishi / 離石
Explicit · suishu:043:s0115

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 大業末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 617 · End: AD 618
Explicit · suishu:072:s0224, suishu:072:s0225
Source Date: Text: 煬帝嗣位後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 605 · End: AD 618
Explicit event contextual date · suishu:043:s0099
Source Date: Text: 開皇初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 590
Explicit · suishu:043:s0097

Family

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Child of Yang Pensheng (楊盆生)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

Label: Administrator of Lishi Commandery / 離石郡太守 · Action: appointed
Explicit · suishu:043:s0104
Label: Administrator of Lishi commandery / 離石郡太守 · Action: served · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大業末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 617 · End: AD 618
Explicit · suishu:072:s0224
Label: posthumous office / 贈官 · Action: posthumously granted
Explicit · suishu:072:s0227

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: addressee · Other Person Id: Yang Guang (楊廣)
Explicit · suishu:043:s0103

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: adviser · Action: warned of Turk raid · Place: Fenyang Palace / 汾陽宮
Explicit · suishu:043:s0101
Kind: burial · Role: deceased · Other Person Id: Li Denian (李德佋) · Place: Lishi / 離石 · Burial Type: ceremonial burial
Explicit · suishu:072:s0225, suishu:072:s0226, suishu:072:s0227
Relation: younger-clansman-of · Person Id: Emperor Wen of Sui (隋文帝)
Explicit · suishu:043:s0094
Relation: honored-subordinate · Person Id: Li Denian (李德佋) · Statement: treated Li Denian with exceptional courtesy
Explicit · suishu:072:s0224

References in the histories

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Book of Sui, Chapter 43Volume 43 Biographies 8: He Jian Wanghong, Yang Chugang, Yang Zichong, Guang De, Wang Xiong · 13 passages

○楊子崇 Yang Zichong

楊子崇，高祖族弟也。 Yang Zichong was a younger clansman-cousin of Emperor Wen.

子崇少好學，涉獵書記，有風儀，愛賢好士。 Zichong loved study from childhood, read widely, carried himself with dignity, and delighted in talented men.

從帝幸汾陽宮，子崇知突厥必為寇患，屢請早還京師，帝不納。 When he accompanied the emperor to the Fenyang Palace, Zichong was convinced the Turks would soon raid the frontier and repeatedly urged an early return to the capital, but the emperor refused to listen.

及賊退，帝怒之曰：「子崇怯軟，妄有陳請，驚動我眾心，不可居爪牙之寄。」 When the enemy withdrew, the emperor raged at him: "Zichong is cowardly and weak. His ill-timed warnings have unsettled the army. He is unfit to hold a commander's post."

自是突厥屢寇邊塞，胡賊劉六兒複擁眾劫掠郡境，子崇上表請兵鎮遏。 From then on the Turks raided the frontier repeatedly, and the rebel Liu Liu'er gathered forces to pillage the commandery. Zichong petitioned for troops to restore order.

帝複大怒，下書令子崇巡行長城。 The emperor erupted in anger again and ordered Zichong to make a patrol inspection of the Great Wall.

子崇出百餘裡，四面路絕，不得進而歸。 Zichong marched out more than a hundred li, but every route was blocked and he was forced to turn back.

時百姓饑饉，相聚為盜，子崇前後捕斬數千人。 With famine driving people to banditry, Zichong captured and executed several thousand in the course of his duties.

子崇患之，言欲朝集，遂與心腹數百人自孟門關將還京師。 Alarmed by the growing chaos, Zichong announced that he would go to court and, with several hundred trusted men, set out from Mengmen Pass toward the capital.

輜重半濟，遇河西諸縣各殺長吏，叛歸師都，道路隔絕，子崇退歸離石。 Their baggage train was still half across the river when word came that the counties west of the Yellow River had killed their magistrates and joined Liang Shidu. With the roads cut off, Zichong retreated to Lishi.

子崇悉收叛者父兄斬之。 Zichong rounded up the fathers and elder brothers of the deserters and had them all executed.

城陷，子崇為仇家所殺。 The city fell, and Zichong was killed by men who bore a grudge against him.

Book of Sui, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 37: Filial Piety · 4 passages

大業末，為離石郡司法書佐，太守楊子崇特禮之。 At the end of the Daye reign he served as Legal Clerk of Lishi commandery, and Administrator Yang Zigong treated him with exceptional courtesy.

及義兵起，子崇遇害，棄屍城下，德佋赴哭盡哀，收瘞之。 When the righteous army rose, Zigong was killed and his body cast below the walls; Denian rushed there, wept his fill, and gathered and buried him.

至介休，詣義師，請葬子崇。 He went to Jiexiu, presented himself to the righteous army, and asked leave to bury Zigong properly.

大將軍嘉之，因贈子崇官，令德佋為使者，往離石禮葬子崇焉。 The great general praised this, posthumously granted Zigong an office, and appointed Denian envoy to return to Lishi and bury Zigong with full ceremony.