Yelü Liang (耶律良)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelü Liang as a courtier, official, and strategist. This record brings together 14 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	Yelü Liang	耶律良	Yelü Liang
Given	Liang	良	Liang
Given name	Liang	良	Liáng
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yēlǜ
Surname	Yelü	耶律	Yelü
Surname	Yelü	耶律	Yēlǜ
Personal name	Yelu Liang	耶律良	Yelu Liang
Personal name	Yelu Liang	耶律良	Yēlǜ Liáng
Personal name	Yelü Liang	耶律良	Yēlǜ Liáng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:022:s0020, liaoshi:096:s0004, liaoshi:096:s0193, liaoshi:112:s0143

Roles

Courtier
Official
Strategist

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸雍初 · Western Year: AD 1066
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0093

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 清寧九年 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 1063
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0033, liaoshi:096:s0081, liaoshi:112:s0143
Source Date: Text: 清寧中 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Western Interval: Start: AD 1055 · End: AD 1064
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0076
Source Date: Text: 九年七月戊午 · Western Year: AD 1063
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:022:s0021
Source Date: Text: 咸雍初 · Western Year: AD 1065
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0092
Source Date: Text: 灤河之變 · Western Year: AD 1063
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0193
Source Date: Text: 重熙中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1032 · End: AD 1055
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0072

Career and standing

Label: Han mobile palace deployment director / 漢人行宮都部署 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 九年七月 · Western Year: AD 1063
Explicit · liaoshi:022:s0030

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0004, liaoshi:096:s0193
Place: Qianzhou / 乾州 · Relation: born-at
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0067

Works and attributed material

Mode: direct-speech · Unit Field: zh
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0070

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: informer · Action: reported-rebellion-plot · Other Person Id: Empress Dowager (太后) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 灤河之變 · Western Year: AD 1063
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0193
Kind: political · Role: informer · Action: secretly-reported-Chongyuan-plot · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 九年七月 · Western Year: AD 1063
Explicit · liaoshi:022:s0030
Relation: reported-to · Person Id: Empress Dowager (太后)
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0193

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: contributed force to the suppression of the rebels by reporting the plot · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0193

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 22Volume 22 Annals 22: Daozong 2 · 2 passages

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時南院樞密使許王仁先、知北樞密院事趙王耶律乙辛、南府宰相蕭唐古、北院宣徽使蕭韓家奴、北院樞密副使蕭惟信、敦睦宮使耶律良等率宿衛士卒數千人禦之。 At the time Southern Court privy commissioner Prince of Xu Renxian, Yelü Yixin who administered Northern Privy Council affairs, Southern Court chancellor Xiao Tanggu, Northern Court palace commissioner Xiao Hanjianu, Northern Court associate privy commissioner Xiao Weixin, Dunmu Palace commissioner Yelü Liang, and others led several thousand night-guard troops to resist.

耶律良密告重元變，命籍橫帳夷離堇房，為漢人行宮都部署。 Yelü Liang had secretly reported Chongyuan's plot; the horizontal-account yilijin houses were ordered registered; he was made Han mobile palace deployment director.

History of Liao, Chapter 96Volume 96 Biographies 26: Yelu Renxian, Yelu Liang, Xiao Hanjianu, Xiao De, Xiao Weixin, Xiao Leyinnu, Yelu Dilie, Yao Jingxing, Yelu Asi · 11 passages

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耶律良蕭韓家奴蕭德蕭惟信蕭樂音奴耶律敵烈姚景行耶律阿思 Yelu Liang, Xiao Hanjianu, Xiao De, Xiao Weixin, Xiao Leyinnu, Yelu Dilie, Yao Jingxing, and Yelu Asi

九年七月，上獵太子山，耶律良奏重元謀逆，帝召仁先語之。 In the seventh month of the ninth year, while the emperor was hunting at Mount Taizi, Yelu Liang reported that Chongyuan was plotting rebellion. The emperor summoned Renxian and told him of it.

耶律良，字習撚，小字蘇，著帳郎君之後。 Yelu Liang, whose style name was Sinian and whose childhood name was Su, was a descendant of the Registered-Tent Attendant Gentleman line.

良曰：「窮通命也，非爾所知。」 Liang said, "Failure and success are a matter of fate — not something you can know."

會獵秋山，良進《秋遊賦》，上嘉之。 When the emperor was hunting at Autumn Mountain, Liang presented his 《Rhapsody on an Autumn Outing》, and the emperor praised it.

清寧中，上幸鴨子河，作《捕魚賦》。 During the Qingning reign, when the emperor visited Duck River, Liang composed his 《Rhapsody on Fishing》.

上命良詩為《慶會集》，親制其序。 the emperor ordered that Liang's poems form the 《Celebratory Assembly Collection》 and personally composed its preface.

良聞重元與子涅魯古謀亂，以帝篤於親愛，不敢遽奏，密言於皇太后。 Liang heard that Chongyuan and his son Nielugu were plotting rebellion. Because the emperor was deeply devoted to his kin, he did not dare report it at once and spoke secretly to the Empress Dowager.

帝謂良曰：「汝欲間我骨肉耶？」 The emperor said to Liang, "Do you wish to set my own flesh and blood against one another?"

良奏曰：「臣若妄言，甘伏斧锧。 Liang replied, "If your servant speaks falsely, I willingly submit to the axe.

良以反謀白太后，韓家奴以逆順降奚人，德與阿思殺涅魯古，皆有討賊之力焉。 Liang reported the plot of rebellion to the Empress Dowager; Hanjianu, by distinguishing loyalty from rebellion, caused the Xi to submit; Xiao De and Yelu Asi killed Nielugu — all contributed force to the suppression of the rebels.

History of Liao, Chapter 112Volume 112 Biographies 42: Rebellious Officials 1 · 1 passage

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九年秋獵，帝用耶律良之計，遣人急召涅魯古。 During the autumn hunt of the ninth year, the emperor adopted Yelü Liang's counsel and urgently summoned Nielugu.