Song, Liao, and Jin · Official

Yang Zunxu 楊遵勖

Yáng Zūnxù

Died AD 1085

Passages
10
Chapters
3
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Zunxu as an envoy, official, and statesman. This record brings together 10 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yang Zunxu 楊遵勖 Yáng Zūnxù
Posthumous Kangyi 康懿 Kangyi
Surname Yang Yáng
Personal Yang Zunxu 楊遵勖 Yang Zunxu
Courtesy Yijie 益誡 Yijie
Surname Yang
Given 遵勖 Zunxu

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Envoy
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: sudden · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大安中 · Reign Id: liao-daan · Western Interval: Start: AD 1085 · End: AD 1094
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0156

Age

  • Age: 56 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大安中 · Reign Id: liao-daan · Western Interval: Start: AD 1085 · End: AD 1094
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0156

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 大康元年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1075
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:023:s0083
  • Source Date: Text: 大康二年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1076
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:023:s0109
  • Source Date: Text: 大康三年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1077
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:023:s0135
  • Source Date: Text: 大安中 · Reign Id: liao-daan · Western Interval: Start: AD 1085 · End: AD 1094
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0156
  • Source Date: Text: 大康初 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Western Interval: Start: AD 1075 · End: AD 1084
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0153
  • Source Date: Text: 咸雍三年 · Western Year: AD 1067
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0147
  • Source Date: Text: 道宗之世 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1055 · End: AD 1101
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:060:s0041, liaoshi:060:s0043
  • Source Date: Text: 重熙十九年 · Western Year: AD 1050
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0146

Family

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  • Parent of Yang Hui (晦)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

  • Label: Associate Participant in Governance / 參知政事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康初 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Western Interval: Start: AD 1075 · End: AD 1084
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0153
  • Label: Envoy to Song for New Year congratulations / 宋國賀正使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸雍三年 · Western Year: AD 1067
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0147
  • Label: administrator of Southern Court privy affairs / 知南院樞密使事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0109
  • Label: Administrator of the Privy Council / 知樞密院事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0153
  • Label: Associate Administrator of Affairs / 參知政事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0083
  • Label: Chancellor of the Northern Office / 北府宰相 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0155
  • Label: Chancellor of the Southern Office / 南府宰相 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0153
  • Label: Chief Assessor / 都承旨 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0148
  • Label: Deputy Assessor of the Privy Council / 樞密院副承旨 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0146
  • Label: Military Assessor of Ruzhou / 儒州軍事判官 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0146
  • Label: Privy Council Academician / 樞密直學士 · Action: appointed
  • Label: Vice Privy Councillor / 樞密副使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0152
  • Label: associate privy commissioner / 樞密副使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0083
  • Label: Gate Attendant and Grand Councillor / 門下侍郎、平章事 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0153
  • Title: Guardian Minister of Works / 守司空 · Action: posthumous
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0157
  • Title: Kangyi / 康懿 · Action: posthumous
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0157

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙十九年 · Western Year: AD 1050
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0146

Events and relationships

  • Kind: administrative · Role: collector · Action: collected-delinquent-household-coin · Outcome: more than 400,000 strings / 四十餘萬繦 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道宗之世 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1055 · End: AD 1101
    Explicit · liaoshi:060:s0043
  • Kind: legal · Role: investigator · Action: interrogated
    Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0135
  • Kind: legal · Role: investigator · Action: investigated-crown-prince-case · Other Person Id: Crown Prince (皇太子)
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0154
  • Relation: co-investigator-with · Person Id: Yelü Yange (耶律燕哥)
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0154

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: decided-affairs-like-flowing-water · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0174
  • Assessment: faulted-for-not-speaking-plainly · Provenance: Mode: contemporary-opinion
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0154

Source notes

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 23Volume 23 Annals 23: Daozong 3 · 3 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 60Volume 60 Treatises 30: Finance and Economics 2 · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 105Volume 105 Biographies 35: Capable Officials · 6 passages