Song, Liao, and Jin · Official and Calendar-Maker

Yelü Lü 耶律履

Attested AD 1171 - AD 1189

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4
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelü Lü as an astronomer, official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 4 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yelü Lü 耶律履 Yelü Lü
Title Hanlin Attendant 翰林應奉
Given name Lü 履 Lǚ
Surname Yelü 耶律 Yelü
Surname Yelü 移剌 Yēlǜ
Personal name Yelü Lü 耶律履 Yelü Lü
Personal name Yelü Lü 移剌履 Yēlǜ Lǚ

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Astronomer
  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Statesman

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Events and relationships

  • Kind: scholarly · Role: calendar-author · Action: compared · Other Person Id: Ren Zhongjie (任忠傑) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十一年十一月望 · Western Year: AD 1181
    Explicit event contextual date · jinshi:021:s0013
  • Kind: scholarly · Role: author · Action: devised · Work: Yiwei Calendar / 乙未曆 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十一年曆成 · Western Year: AD 1171
    Explicit event contextual date · jinshi:021:s0011, jinshi:021:s0012
  • Relation: calendar-compared-with · Person Id: Zhao Zhiwei (趙知微)
    Explicit · jinshi:021:s0013

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History of Jin, Chapter 21Volume 21 Treatises 2: Calendar 1: Seasonal Phases and Month Beginnings 1, Phases and Divination 2, Phases of the Sun's Path 3 · 2 passages
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二十一年十一月望，太陰虧食，遂命尚書省委禮部員外郎任忠傑與司天曆官驗所食時刻分秒，比校知微、履及見行曆之親疏，以知微曆為親，遂用之。 In year 21, at the full moon of the eleventh month, the moon was eclipsed; the Ministry ordered Ren Zhongjie of the Rites Bureau and the calendar officers to verify the hour, minute, and second of the eclipse and compare Zhao Zhiwei's, Yelü Lü's, and the current calendar—Zhiwei's proved closer, and his calendar was adopted.
History of Jin, Chapter 46Volume 46 Treatises 27: Finance and Economics 1: Thorough Examination and Organization of Registered Residences · 2 passages
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省臣欲取公牒可憑者為准，參知政事移剌履謂：「憑驗真偽難明，凡契丹奴婢今後所生者悉為良，見有者則不得典賣，如此則三十年後奴皆為良，而民且不病焉。」 Provincial ministers wanted documentary proof; Vice Grand Councilor Yelü Lü said: "Verification of truth and falsehood is hard to clarify; all Khitan bond servants born hereafter should be free, existing ones not pawned or sold—in thirty years all would be free without harming the people."