Yelü Guannu (耶律官奴)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelü Guannu as an aristocrat, hermit, official, and scholar. This record brings together 9 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yelü Guannu	耶律官奴	Yelü Guannu
Given name	Guannu	官奴
Epithet	Two Recluses	二逸
Courtesy name	Xiyin	奚隱
Surname	Yelü	耶律
Personal name	Yelü Guannu	耶律官奴	Yelü Guannu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:106:s0019

Roles

Aristocrat
Hermit
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾統間 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1110
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:106:s0031

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾統間 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1110
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:106:s0031
Source Date: Text: 重熙九年 · Western Year: AD 1040
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:106:s0019, liaoshi:106:s0023

Family

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Child of Parent of Yelü Guannu
Kinship Term: parent / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: parent · Object Role: child
Kinship Term: grandson / 孫 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: child · Object Role: parent · Generation Distance: 1
Descendant of Wolu (斡魯)
Kinship Term: grandson / 孫 · Parentage: biological · Generation Distance: 2 · Intermediary Person Ids: Parent of Yelü Guannu
Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Intermediary Person Ids: Parent of Yelü Guannu

Origins and identity

Label: Yelü clan / 耶律
Explicit · liaoshi:106:s0002, liaoshi:106:s0019

Career and standing

Label: Military Commissioner of the Guiyi Army / 歸義軍節度使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:106:s0026
Label: Night-Watch Duty General / 宿直將軍 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:106:s0022
Status: senior-lineage · Label: distinguished lineage / 屬尊
Explicit · liaoshi:106:s0024

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:106:s0002, liaoshi:106:s0022
Organization: Ouli tribe / 歐裏部 · Relation: associated-via-friend · Other Person Id: Xiao Wa (蕭哇)
Explicit · liaoshi:106:s0027

Learning and skills

Skill: dynastic genealogy / 本朝世系 · Level: thoroughly versed
Explicit · liaoshi:106:s0020

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Explicit · liaoshi:106:s0025

Events and relationships

Kind: personal · Role: participant · Action: agreed-to-live-as-recluse-with-friend · Other Person Id: Xiao Wa (蕭哇)
Explicit · liaoshi:106:s0028, liaoshi:106:s0029
Kind: political · Role: subject · Action: allowed-to-choose-circuit-military-commissionership · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙九年 · Western Year: AD 1040
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:106:s0023, liaoshi:106:s0024
Kind: political · Role: subject · Action: declined-office-choice
Explicit · liaoshi:106:s0025
Kind: political · Role: subject · Action: left-office-for-illness · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙九年 · Western Year: AD 1040
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:106:s0023
Kind: political · Role: subject · Action: requested-retirement
Explicit · liaoshi:106:s0026
Relation: friend-of · Person Id: Xiao Wa (蕭哇)
Explicit · liaoshi:106:s0027

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: outstanding conduct; twice declined regional commands · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:106:s0048, liaoshi:106:s0049, liaoshi:106:s0050
Kind: character · Statement: steady, learned; loved wine and ease
Explicit · liaoshi:106:s0020, liaoshi:106:s0021

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · liaoshi:106:s0019

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 106Volume 106 Biographies 36: Outstanding Conduct · 9 passages

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卓行 ○蕭劄剌耶律官奴蕭蒲離不 Outstanding Conduct ○ Xiao Zhalaci, Yelü Guannu, Xiao Pulibu

耶律官奴，字奚隱，林牙斡魯之孫。 Yelü Guannu, whose style was Xiyin, was the grandson of Linya Wolu.

上以官奴屬尊，欲成其志，乃許自擇一路節度使。 Because Guannu was of distinguished lineage, the emperor wished to satisfy his wishes and allowed him to choose for himself any circuit military commissionership.

官奴辭曰：「臣愚鈍，不任官使。」 Guannu declined, saying, "Your servant is dull and incompetent, unfit for official duty."

官奴與歐裏部人蕭哇友善，哇謂官奴曰：「仕不能致主澤民，成大功烈，何屑屑為也！ Guannu was on friendly terms with Xiao Wa of the Ouli tribe. Wa said to Guannu, "If in office one cannot bring benefit to one's lord and grace to the people, or achieve great deeds, why bother with such trifles!

官奴然之。 Guannu agreed.

時稱「二逸」。 People of the time called them the "Two Recluses."

乾統間，官奴卒。 During the Qiantong era Guannu died.

若劄剌謝職不談時務，官奴兩辭節鎮，蒲離不召而不赴，雖未足謂之隱，然在當時能知內外之分，甘於肥遁，不猶愈於求富貴利達而為妻妾羞者哉？ Zhalaci resigned his post and would not discuss current affairs; Guannu twice declined regional commands; Pulibu was summoned but did not go — though these do not fully qualify as reclusion, in their own day they knew the boundary between public duty and private life and were content to withdraw from the world. Are they not still preferable to those who scrambled for wealth, rank, and advancement and brought shame upon their households?