Five Dynasties · Military Officer

Yao Feng 姚鳳

Yáo Fèng

Attested AD 956

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yao Feng was a Military Officer.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 956 顯德三年二月
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 116, passage 36

Career and standing

Changzhou militia commissioner and relief director 常州團練使、充應援都監
Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 116, passage 43
Entered
Captivity
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 116, passages 43, 56
Released
Pardon
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 116, passage 56

Places and affiliations

Polity Southern Tang 南唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 116, passage 43

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 116Volume 116 Book of Later Zhou 18: Shizong Annals 3 · 3 passages

壬申，今上奏，破淮賊萬五千人於清流山，乘勝攻下滁州，擒偽命江州節度使、充行營應援使皇甫暉，常州團練使、充應援都監姚鳳以獻。 On renshen Zhao Kuangyin reported routing fifteen thousand rebels at Qingliushan, capturing Chuzhou, and presenting the captured false Jiangzhou governor and relief commander Huangfu Hui and false Changzhou commissioner and relief director Yao Feng.

〈（王銍《默記》：李景聞世宗親至淮上，而滁州其控扼，且援壽州，命大將皇甫暉、監軍姚鳳提兵十萬扼其地。 (Wang Zhi's Silent Records relates that when Li Jing learned Shizong had reached the Huai in person, he sent Generals Huangfu Hui and Yao Feng with one hundred thousand men to hold Chuzhou, the key to relieving Shouzhou.

乙亥，今上縶送所獲江南二將皇甫暉、姚鳳至行在，詔釋之。 On yihai Zhao Kuangyin escorted the captured generals Huangfu Hui and Yao Feng to headquarters, where an edict ordered them freed.