Song, Liao, and Jin · Official

Yelu Mengjian 耶律孟簡

Yēlǜ Mèngjiǎn

Attested AD 1075 - AD 1110

Passages
10
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelu Mengjian as a historian, official, poet, and scholar. This record brings together 10 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yelu Mengjian 耶律孟簡 Yēlǜ Mèngjiǎn
Courtesy Fuyi 復易 Fuyi
Given Mengjian 孟簡 Mengjian
Surname Yelü 耶律 Yelü
Personal Yelü Mengjian 耶律孟簡
Personal Yelü Mengjian 耶律孟簡 Yelü Mengjian

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Historian
  • Official
  • Poet
  • Scholar
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

Age

  • Age: 6 · Reckoning: sui · Event: composed poem at father's request
    Explicit · liaoshi:104:s0071

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 大康初 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1075
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:104:s0073
  • Source Date: Text: 大康二年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1076
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0113
  • Source Date: Text: 大康中 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Western Interval: Start: AD 1075 · End: AD 1084
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:104:s0085
  • Source Date: Text: 乾統中 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1110
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:104:s0092

Family

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  • Descendant of Wuzhi (屋質)
    Kinship Term: fifth-generation descendant / 五世孫 · Generation Distance: 5 · Line: paternal
  • Child of Liujianu (劉家奴)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

  • Label: Grand Protector of the Six Tribes Commission / 六院部太保 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾統中 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1110
    Explicit · liaoshi:104:s0092
  • Label: Commissioner of Gaozhou for Observation / 高州觀察使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:104:s0096
  • Label: Military Commissioner of the Zhaode Army / 昭德軍節度使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:104:s0097
  • Status: exile · Action: entered · Place: Baozhou / 保州
    Explicit · liaoshi:104:s0077
  • Status: demotion · Action: demoted to patrol Ciyao Pass · Authority Person Id: Yelü Yixin (耶律乙辛)
    Explicit · liaoshi:104:s0074

Places and affiliations

  • Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0113, liaoshi:104:s0073
  • Place: native place / 鄉里 · Relation: returned-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康中 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Western Interval: Start: AD 1075 · End: AD 1084
    Explicit · liaoshi:104:s0085
  • Place: Ciyao Pass / 磁窯關 · Relation: posted-to
    Explicit · liaoshi:104:s0074

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: detested Yixin's treachery; dismissed without resentment · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:104:s0114
  • Assessment: pedantic for not sticking to written regulations · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report
    Explicit · liaoshi:104:s0093
  • Kind: character · Statement: quick and perceptive by nature
    Explicit · liaoshi:104:s0070

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 89Volume 89 Biographies 19: Yelu Shucheng, Yang Ji, Yelu Hanliu, Yang Ji, Yelu Heshang · 1 passage
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History of Liao, Chapter 104Volume 104 Biographies 34: Literature 2 · 9 passages
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