Yelu Jue (耶律玦) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelu Jue as an administrator, historian, and official. This record brings together 15 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yelu Jue	耶律玦	Yēlǜ Jué
Given	Jue	玦
Given	Jue	玦	Jué
Courtesy	Wuzhan	吾展
Surname	Yelu	耶律
Personal name	Yelu Jue	耶律玦

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0072
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:097:s0106, liaoshi:098:s0001

Roles

Administrator
Historian
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died of illness brought on by wine · Cause: wine sickness / 酒疾
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0085

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: AD 1075-1084 · Western Year: AD 1075
Explicit · liaoshi:098:s0094, liaoshi:098:s0114
Source Date: Text: 咸雍二年 · Western Year: AD 1066
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:097:s0104, liaoshi:097:s0106
Source Date: Text: 咸雍初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1065 · End: AD 1066
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:091:s0078
Source Date: Text: 重熙初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1032 · End: AD 1033
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:091:s0073
Source Date: Text: 重熙十年 · Western Year: AD 1041
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:091:s0077

Family

Descendant of Khan Xianzhi (鮮質可汗)
Kinship Term: descendant / 之後 · Line: paternal

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Khitan / 契丹
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0082

Career and standing

Label: Northern Court Vice Commissioner / 北院副部署 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸雍初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1065 · End: AD 1066
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0078
Label: Co-administrator of the Liaoxing Army commission / 同知使事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0076
Label: Co-signatory of the Nanjing Military Governorship / 同簽南京留守事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0075
Label: Credential Bearer Gentleman / 符寶郎 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0073
Label: Details Steady of the Mengfu House / 孟父房敞穩 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0080
Label: Southern Forest Ya / 南面林牙 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0075
Label: Southwest Pacification Superintendent / 西南面招討都監 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0075
Label: Vice Commissioner of the Northern Court Deputy Office / 知北院副部署事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0073
Label: Vice Privy Commissioner / 樞密副使 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 重熙十年 · Western Year: AD 1041
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0077
Label: Vice Privy Commissioner / 樞密副使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0075

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0072, liaoshi:097:s0106

Works and attributed material

Work: national history / 國史 · Relation: compiler
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0073

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: investigator · Action: sent to investigate northwestern tribes; punished the negligent
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0084
Kind: administrative · Role: assistant · Action: served as assistant to Prince of Qin at Western Capital; prisons empty three times in a year · Other Person Id: Prince of Qin (秦國王)
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0079, liaoshi:091:s0080
Relation: aide-of · Person Id: Prince of Qin (秦國王)
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0076

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: praised for loyalty and integrity · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0102
Assessment: Was named by Daozong together with Liu Shen as loyal and upright. · Kind: imperial-assessment · Provenance: Mode: textual
Explicit · liaoshi:098:s0094, liaoshi:098:s0114
Kind: character · Statement: did not care for profit-seeking; was poor
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0081

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 91Volume 91 Biographies 21: Yelu Hanba, Yelu Tanggu, Xiao Paizhe, Yelu Jue, Yelu Pulidu · 11 passages

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耶律玦耶律仆里篤 Yelu Jue and Yelu Pulidu

耶律玦 Yelu Jue

耶律玦，字吾展，遙輦鮮質可汗之後。 Yelu Jue, style name Wuzhan, was a descendant of Khan Xianzhi of the Yaolian.

入見太后，後顧左右曰：「先皇謂玦必為偉人，果然。」 On audience with the empress dowager, she looked back at those beside her and said, "The former emperor said Jue would surely prove a great man — and so it has come to pass."

皇弟秦國王為遼興軍節度使，以玦同知使事，多所匡正。 When the emperor's younger brother the Prince of Qin was military commissioner of Liaoxing Army, Jue was made co-administrator of the commission and corrected many matters.

及秦國王為西京留守，請玦為佐，從之。 When the Prince of Qin became military governor of the Western Capital, he requested Jue as his assistant, and the emperor assented.

玦不喜貨殖，帝知其貧，賜宮戶十。 Jue did not care for profit-seeking; the emperor knew he was poor and bestowed ten palace households on him.

嘗謂宰相曰：「契丹忠正無如玦者，漢人則劉伸而已。 He once told the chancellor, "Among the Khitan none is so loyal and upright as Jue; among the Han, only Liu Shen.

然熟察之，玦優於伸。」 Yet on close examination, Jue surpasses Shen."

先是，西北諸部久不能平，上遣玦問狀，執弛慢者痛繩之。 Earlier the northwestern tribes had long gone unpacified; the emperor sent Jue to investigate, seized those who were negligent, and punished them severely.

玦以忠直見稱於上，仆裏篤以幹敏為宰相佐，在鎮俱以獄空聞。 Jue won praise at court for his loyalty and integrity; Pulidu was valued by the chancellor for his capability and keen judgment; and both became known in their regional commands for keeping the prisons empty.

History of Liao, Chapter 97Volume 97 Biographies 27: Yelu Wotela, Hai Li, Dou Jingyong, Yelu Yinji, Yang Ji, Zhao Hui, Wang Guan, Yelu Xisun · 2 passages

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帝曰：「方今群臣忠直，耶律玦、劉伸而已； The emperor said, "Among the ministers today who are loyal and upright, only Yelu Jue and Liu Shen remain;

然伸不及玦之剛介。」 yet Shen does not match Jue in firm integrity."

History of Liao, Chapter 98Volume 98 Biographies 28: Xiao Wuna, Yelu Yan, Liu Shen, Yelu Hulu · 2 passages

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道宗嘗謂大臣曰：「今之忠直，耶律玦、劉伸而已！」 Daozong once told his ministers: "Today only Yelu Jue and Liu Shen are truly loyal and upright!"

劉伸三為大理，民無冤抑，一登戶部，上下兼裕，至與耶律玦並稱忠直，不亦宜乎！ Liu Shen thrice held the Court of Justice and left the people free of wrongful oppression; once at the head of the Households Bureau he filled both imperial and local coffers; that he should stand with Yelu Jue among the loyal and upright—is that not exactly as it should be?