Yao Yanchou (藥彥稠)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yao Yanchou as a general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 16 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	Yao Yanchou	藥彥稠	Yao Yanchou
Given name	Yanchou	彥稠	Yanchou
Given	Yanchou	彥稠	Yànchóu
Surname	Yao	藥	Yào
Personal	Yao Yanchou	藥彥稠
Personal name	Yao Yanchou	藥彥稠	Yao Yanchou
Personal	Yao Yanchou	藥彥稠	Yào Yànchóu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:065:s0117, jiuwudaishi:074:s0144, jiuwudaishi:138:s0101
Sex: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:007:s0012
Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:042:s0092, jiuwudaishi:066:s0023

Roles

General
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution · Authority Person Id: Prince of Lu (潞王) · Place: Hua / 華州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清泰元年四月 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0154
Manner: killed / 殺 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 戊子 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit · xinwudaishi:007:s0054

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: AD 934 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:065:s0117
Source Date: Text: 明宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:138:s0101
Source Date: Text: 明宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:066:s0023, jiuwudaishi:066:s0140
Source Date: Text: 清泰元年四月 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:066:s0154
Source Date: Text: 辛卯 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:007:s0012
Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:042:s0092
Source Date: Text: 長興元年 · Western Year: AD 930
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:074:s0144

Origins and identity

Label: three Shatuo tribes / 沙陀三部落
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0140

Career and standing

Label: Binzhou military commissioner; imperial escort foot-army commander / 邠州節度使、隨駕步軍都指揮使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0092
Label: Palace Attendant (posthumous) / 侍中 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢高祖即位 · Western Year: AD 947
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0155

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned-against-Tangut
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:138:s0101

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 1 passage

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壬子，以隨駕步軍都指揮使藥彥稠為邠州節度使。 On renzi Yao Yanchou became Bin commissioner.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 65Volume 65 Book of Later Tang 41: Biographies 17: Li Jianji, Shi Junli, Gao Xinggui, Zhang Tingyu, Wang Sitong, Suo Zitong · 3 passages

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會副部署藥彥稠至，方宴，而妓、使適至，乃擊之於獄。 Deputy commander Yao Yanchou arrived during a feast just as the entertainers and envoy appeared; Sitong had them beaten and thrown in jail.

彥稠請誅審溫，拘送昭赴闕。 Yanchou urged that Shenwen be executed and Zhao sent to the capital in chains.

十七日，思同與藥彥稠、萇從簡俱至長安，劉遂雍閉關不內，乃奔潼關。 On the seventeenth Sitong, Yao Yanchou, and Chang Congjian reached Chang'an, but Liu Suiyong shut the gates against them and they fled toward Tong Pass.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 66Volume 66 Book of Later Tang 42: Biographies 8: an Zhonghui, Zhu Hongzhao, Zhu Hongshi, Kang Yicheng, Yao Yanchou, Song Lingxun · 5 passages

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翌日，帝召侍衛指揮使安從進、藥彥稠等，謂之曰：「有人告安重誨私置兵仗，將不利於社稷，其若之何？」 Next day the emperor called An Congjin, Yao Yanchou, and others and asked, "Someone accuses An Chonghui of hoarding arms to harm the realm—what shall we do?"

藥彥稠，沙陀三部落人。 Yao Yanchou came from the three Shatuo tribes.

屬河中指揮使楊彥溫作亂，彥稠改侍衛步軍都指揮使，充河中副招討使，將兵討平之。 Yang Yanwen's Hedong revolt made him Foot commander and deputy pacifier; he crushed the rebellion.

無幾，党項劫回鶻入朝使，詔彥稠屯朔方，就討党項之叛命者，搜索盜賊，盡獲回鶻所貢駝馬、寶玉，擒首領而還。 Tangut raiders struck the Uighur tribute mission; Yanchou camped at Shuofang, hunted rebels and bandits, recovered the tribute camels, horses, and gems, and returned with chiefs captive.

禁軍之潰，彥稠欲沿流而遁，為軍士所擒而獻之。 When the palace guard broke, Yanchou tried to flee downstream but soldiers seized and handed him over.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 74Volume 74 Book of Later Tang 50: Biographies 126: Kang Yanxiao, Zhu Shouyin, Yang Li, Dou Tingwan, Zhang Qianzhao, Yang Yanwen · 3 passages

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安重誨堅請出師，即命西京留守索自通、侍衛步軍指揮使藥彥稠等帥兵攻之。 An Chonghui insisted on military action. Mingzong ordered Suo Zhitong, military governor of the western capital, Yao Yanchou, commander of the palace guard infantry, and others to attack.

初，彥稠出師，明宗戒之曰：「與朕生致彥溫，吾將自訊之。」 Before Yao Yanchou marched out, Mingzong warned him, "Bring Yanwen to me alive. I mean to question him myself."

及收城，斬首傳送，明宗深怒彥稠等。 When the city fell, they beheaded Yanwen and sent his head to court. Mingzong was furious with Yao Yanchou and his officers.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 138Volume 138: Foreign States Biographies 2: Tubo, Huihu, Goryeo, Bohai Tungusic Tribes, Heishui Tungusic Tribes, Silla, Tangut, Kunming Tribes, Yutian, Champa, Zangkeman · 1 passage

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明宗遣靈武康福、邠州藥彥稠等出兵討之，福等擊破阿埋、韋悉、褒勒、強賴、埋廝骨尾及其大首領連香、李八薩王，都統悉那、埋摩，侍御乞埋、嵬悉逋等族。 Mingzong dispatched Kang Fu of Lingwu and Yao Yanchou of Bin Prefecture with troops to suppress them. Fu and his commanders broke the Amai, Weixi, Baole, Qianglai, and Maisigui tribes, together with their great chieftains Lianxiang and Li Basawang, commanders-in-chief Sina and Maimo, attendants Qimai and Weisibu, and other clans.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 7Volume 7 Later Tang Annals 4: Deposed Emperors · 3 passages

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辛卯，西京留守王思同為西面行營都部署，靜難軍節度使藥彥稠為副。 On xinmao Wang Sitong, defender of Luoyang, was named commander-in-chief of the western field army, with Yao Yanchou of Jingnan as his second.

甲子，次華州，執藥彥稠。 On jiazi he paused at Hua prefecture and took Yao Yanchou prisoner.

戊子，殺康義誠及藥彥稠。 On wuzi Kang Yicheng and Yao Yanchou were put to death.