Ancient China · Aristocrat

Yanling 延陵

Attested BC 560 - BC 500

Passages
3
Chapters
3
Histories
3

Overview

The translated histories identify Yanling as an aristocrat, diplomat, named individual, and royal family member. This record brings together 3 passages from 3 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yanling 延陵 Yanling
Title Lord of Yanling 延陵 Yánlíng
Title Yanling 延陵 Yanling

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Title only
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • Diplomat
  • Named Individual
  • Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 延陵所云 · Western Year: BC 544
    Explicit · liangshu:052:s0070
  • Source Date: Text: 春秋之世 · Western Interval: Start: BC 560 · End: BC 500
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:031:s0170
  • Source Date: Text: 近世延陵、孟嘗、春申、平原、信陵 · Western Interval: Start: BC 300 · End: BC 220
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:124:s0022

Career and standing

  • Status: royal-kin · Label: relied on kinship with royalty / 因王者親屬
    Explicit · shiji:124:s0022

Assessments and attributes

References in the histories

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Book of Later Han, Chapter 31Volume 28a: Biographies of Huan Tan; Feng Yan · 1 passage
Book of Liang, Chapter 52Volume 52: The Self-Sufficient · 1 passage
Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 124Biographies of Knight-errants · 1 passage