Yelü Shucheng (耶律庶成)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelü Shucheng as an aristocrat, editor, historian, and named individual. This record brings together 17 passages from 7 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yelü Shucheng	耶律庶成	Yelü Shucheng
Childhood	Chenliu	陳六	Chénliù
Title	Commoner Yelu	庶耶律
Title	Linya Yelü Shucheng	林牙耶律庶成
Title	Prince of Song	宋王
Given	Shucheng	庶成	Shùchéng
Given	Shucheng	庶成	Shucheng
Personal	Xiyin	喜隱	Xǐyǐn
Courtesy	Xiyin	喜隱	Xǐyǐn
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yēlǜ
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yelu
Surname	Yelü	耶律	Yelü
Personal	Yelu Shucheng	耶律庶成	Yēlǜ Shùchéng
Personal	Yelu Shucheng	耶律庶成
Personal name	Yelu Shucheng	耶律庶成	Yelu Shucheng
Personal	Yelu Shucheng	耶律庶成	Yelu Shucheng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:066:s0382, liaoshi:096:s0212
Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0005, liaoshi:103:s0123, liaoshi:104:s0110

Roles

Aristocrat
Editor
Historian
Named Individual
Official
Poet
Royal Family Member
Scholar
Translator
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died after restoration / 卒
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0021

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 清寧元年 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1055
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0212, liaoshi:096:s0213
Source Date: Text: 清寧間 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1055
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:089:s0020, liaoshi:089:s0021
Source Date: Text: 十三年 · Western Year: AD 1044
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:019:s0107, liaoshi:019:s0125
Source Date: Text: 十年 · Western Year: AD 1041
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:019:s0002, liaoshi:019:s0010
Source Date: Text: 興宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1031 · End: AD 1055
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:104:s0110, liaoshi:104:s0109
Source Date: Text: 遼皇族表 · Western Interval: Start: AD 916 · End: AD 1125
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:066:s0382
Source Date: Text: 重熙初 · Western Year: AD 1032
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:089:s0009
Source Date: Text: 重熙十五年 · Western Year: AD 1046
Explicit · liaoshi:103:s0123, liaoshi:103:s0124, liaoshi:103:s0126
Source Date: Text: 重熙四年 · Western Year: AD 1035
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:091:s0044

Family

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Descendant of Liao Taizu (遼太祖)
Kinship Term: descended from / 係出 · Line: paternal
Child of Wu Jiu (吳九)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Parent of Son of Hu Du (胡篤子)
Kinship Term: his son / 其子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Li Hu (李胡)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Parent of Liulishou (留禮壽)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Spouse of Hu Du (胡篤)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife
Sibling of Yelu Shuzhen (耶律庶箴)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Object Role: younger-brother · Shared Parentage: uncertain

Origins and identity

Label: Liao imperial clan / 遼皇族
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:066:s0382
Label: Shufu branch / 季父房
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0005

Career and standing

Label: Academician of the Bureau of Military Affairs / 樞密直學士 · Action: appointed
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:089:s0009
Label: New Year congratulatory envoy to Song / 賀宋正旦使副 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:019:s0010
Label: Seal and Patent Attendant / 牌印郎君 · Action: appointed
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:089:s0009
Label: Hanlin Chief Linya / 翰林都林牙 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:019:s0125
Label: linya (Grand Preceptor) / 林牙 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0022
Label: Linya / 林牙 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:104:s0110
Title: Prince of Song / 宋王 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:066:s0382
Status: demoted · Label: Commoner Yelu / 庶耶律 · Action: entered
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0019
Label: stripped of office / 奪官 · Action: suffered
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0019

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: associated-with
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:066:s0382
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:019:s0010, liaoshi:089:s0009, liaoshi:096:s0212, liaoshi:103:s0123
Place: Tibet / 吐蕃 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0020

Works and attributed material

Work: commemorative inscription for Wuzhi / 屋質功勒石 · Relation: author
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0044
Work: Rhapsodies on Leisure through the Four Seasons / 四時逸樂賦 · Relation: author
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0010
Work: Book of Rites / 禮書 · Relation: compiler
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0013
Work: court records from the founding to the present / 國朝上世以來事跡 · Relation: compiler
Explicit · liaoshi:019:s0125
Work: Liao ancestral deeds and Veritable Records / 遼國上世事跡及諸帝實錄 · Relation: compiler
Explicit · liaoshi:104:s0110
Work: Veritable Records / 實錄 · Relation: compiler
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0013
Kind: edict · Role: addressee · Other Person Id: Xingzong (興宗)
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0014, liaoshi:089:s0015, liaoshi:089:s0016

Events and relationships

Kind: personal · Role: dreamer · Action: dreamed-divination · Other Person Id: Hu Lugu (胡呂古) · Provenance: Mode: dream
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0022
Kind: legal · Role: reviser · Action: revised-statutes · Other Person Id: Xiao De (蕭德)
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0014, liaoshi:089:s0017
Kind: scholarly · Role: translator · Action: translated-pulse-texts
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0011

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: fixed statutes so governors could not manipulate penalties · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0099

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 19Volume 19 Annals 19: Xingzong 2 · 2 passages

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耶律庶成、趙成、耶律烈、張旦充來歲賀宋正旦使副。 Yelü Shucheng, Zhao Cheng, Yelü Lie, and Zhang Dan were appointed chief and deputy envoys to congratulate Song on New Year's Day of the coming year.

丙申，詔前南院大王耶律谷欲、翰林都林牙耶律庶成等編集國朝上世以來事跡。 On bingshen day an edict ordered former Southern Court great king Yelü Guyu, Hanlin Chief Linya Yelü Shucheng, and others to compile court records from the founding to the present.

History of Liao, Chapter 66Volume 66 Tables 4: Imperial Family · 1 passage

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宋王喜隱。 Xiyin, Prince of Song.

History of Liao, Chapter 89Volume 89 Biographies 19: Yelu Shucheng, Yang Ji, Yelu Hanliu, Yang Ji, Yelu Heshang · 9 passages

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耶律庶成 Yelu Shucheng

耶律庶成，字喜隱，小字陳六，季父房之後。 Yelu Shucheng, whose style name was Xiyin and childhood name Chenliu, came from the Shufu branch of the imperial clan.

庶成幼好學，書過目不忘。 From childhood Shucheng loved learning and never forgot a book after a single reading.

初，契丹醫人鮮知切脈審藥，上命庶成譯方脈書行之，自是人皆通習，雖諸部族亦知醫事。 At first Khitan physicians seldom knew pulse diagnosis or how to judge medicines. The emperor ordered Shucheng to translate works on pulse lore and put them into practice, after which the art became widely known, and even the tribal peoples learned medical practice.

與樞密副使蕭德修定法令，上詔庶成曰：「方今法令輕重不倫。 Working with Vice Commissioner of the Bureau of Military Affairs Xiao De, he revised the statutes. The emperor addressed Shucheng: "At present the penalties in our statutes are inconsistent in severity.

庶成參酌古今，刊正訛謬，成書以進。 Shucheng drew on past and present models, corrected errors, completed the work, and submitted it to the throne.

庶成方進用，為妻胡篤所誣，以罪奪官，絀為「庶耶律」。 Just as Shucheng was coming into high favor, his wife Hu Du slandered him; he was stripped of office for a crime and reduced in clan rank to the humiliating designation "Commoner Yelu."

庶成嘗為林牙，夢善卜者胡呂古卜曰：「官止林牙，因妻得罪。」 While serving as Grand Preceptor, Shucheng dreamed that the skilled diviner Hu Lugu told his fortune: "Your rank will go no higher than Grand Preceptor, and you will fall because of your wife."

論曰：庶成定法令，治民者不容高下其手。 The appraisal says: By fixing the statutes, Shucheng ensured that those who governed the people could not manipulate penalties at will.

History of Liao, Chapter 91Volume 91 Biographies 21: Yelu Hanba, Yelu Tanggu, Xiao Paizhe, Yelu Jue, Yelu Pulidu · 1 passage

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乞勒其父屋質功於石，帝命耶律庶成制文，勒石上京崇孝寺。 He asked that his father Wuzhi's achievements be carved on stone; the emperor ordered Yelu Shucheng to compose the text, which was inscribed at Chongxiao Temple in Shangjing.

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 · 1 passage

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詔與林牙耶律庶成修《律令》，改契丹行宮都部署，賜宮戶十有五。 An edict ordered him and Linya Yelu Shucheng to compile the Statutes and Ordinances. He was transferred to Garrison Commander of the Khitan Traveling Palace and granted fifteen palace households.

History of Liao, Chapter 103Volume 103 Biographies 33: Literature 1 · 2 passages

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詔與耶律庶成錄遙輦可汗至重熙以來事跡，集為二十卷，進之。 He was ordered with Yelu Shucheng to compile events from the Yaolian khans through the Chongxi era into twenty scrolls and present them to the throne.

卿可與庶成酌古準今，制為禮典。 You and Shucheng should weigh antiquity against the present and draft a ritual canon.

History of Liao, Chapter 104Volume 104 Biographies 34: Literature 2 · 1 passage

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奉詔與林牙耶律庶成、蕭韓家奴編遼國上世事跡及諸帝《實錄》，未成而卒，年九十。 By imperial order he joined Linya Yelü Shucheng and Xiao Hanjianu in compiling the deeds of earlier Liao affairs and the Veritable Records of the various emperors; he died before the work was finished, at the age of ninety.