Yelu Shuzhen (耶律庶箴)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelu Shuzhen as a military officer, official, and writer. This record brings together 9 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yelu Shuzhen	耶律庶箴	Yēlǜ Shùzhēn
Courtesy	Chenfu	陳甫	Chénfǔ
Given	Shuzhen	庶箴	Shùzhēn
Given	Shuzhen	庶箴	Shuzhen
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yēlǜ
Surname	Yelü	耶律	Yelü
Personal	Yelü Shuzhen	耶律庶箴	Yelü Shuzhen

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0103, liaoshi:104:s0073

Roles

Military Officer
Official
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died after retirement / 致仕，卒
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0118

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: 大康八年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 1082
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0118
Source Date: Text: 咸雍元年 · Western Year: AD 1065
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0105
Source Date: Text: 重熙中 · Western Year: AD 1040
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:089:s0104

Family

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Parent of Yelu Pulu (耶律蒲魯)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Sibling of Yelü Shucheng (耶律庶成)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Object Role: younger-brother · Shared Parentage: uncertain

Career and standing

Label: administrator of Jizhou / 知薊州事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0106
Label: associate Eastern Capital regent / 同知東京留守事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0105
Label: Chief Grand Preceptor / 都林牙 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0107
Label: general of his clan / 本族將軍 · Action: held
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:089:s0104
Label: military commissioner of the Wuyan Tujue tribe / 烏衍突厥部節度使 · Action: transferred
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0105
Status: retired · Action: entered
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0118
Label: flogged two hundred strokes / 鞭之二百 · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Xingzong (興宗)
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0032

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0104

Works and attributed material

Work: Admonitory Poem / 戒諭詩 · Relation: author
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0039
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Hongji (洪基)
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0108, liaoshi:089:s0109, liaoshi:089:s0110, liaoshi:089:s0111
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Yelü Yixin (耶律乙辛)
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0115

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: co-author · Action: congratulatory memorial with Mengjian · Other Person Id: Yelu Mengjian (耶律孟簡)
Explicit · liaoshi:104:s0073
Kind: political · Role: author · Action: congratulatory-memorial · Other Person Id: Yelü Yixin (耶律乙辛)
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0113

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: ashamed before son Pulu for bending with fortunes · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0100
Assessment: despised for flattering Yixin · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0117

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 · 8 passages

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〈（庶箴蒲魯）〉 (Shuzhen and Pulu)]〉

弟庶箴。 His younger brother was Shuzhen.

庶箴，字陳甫，善屬文。 Shuzhen, whose style name was Chenfu, was skilled at literary composition.

大康二年，出耶律乙辛為中京留守，庶箴與耶律孟簡表賀。 In the second year of Dakang, Yelü Yixin was sent out as commissioner of the Central Capital; Shuzhen and Yelü Mengjian submitted a congratulatory memorial.

庶箴私見乙辛泣曰：「前抗表，非庶箴之願也。」 Shuzhen privately visited Yixin and wept, saying, "My earlier memorial opposing him was not Shuzhen's true wish."

主文以國制無契丹試進士之條，聞於上，以庶箴擅令子就科目，鞭之二百。 The chief examiner reported to the throne that national law contained no provision for Khitans to sit the jinshi examination. Shuzhen was judged to have presumptuously placed his son in the examination and was given two hundred strokes of the whip.

是時，父庶箴嘗寄《戒諭詩》，蒲魯答以賦，眾稱其典雅。 About that time his father Shuzhen sent him an admonitory poem, to which Pulu replied with a rhapsody that everyone praised for its refinement.

庶箴雖嘗表請廣姓氏，以秩典禮，其隨勢俯仰，則有愧於其子蒲魯矣。 Although Shuzhen once memorialized to expand the clan registers and set ritual precedence, his readiness to bend with changing fortunes left him shamed before his son Pulu.

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

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大康初，樞密使耶律乙辛以奸險竊柄，出為中京留守，孟簡與耶律庶箴表賀。 At the beginning of Dakang, Privy Councillor Yelü Yixin seized power through treachery and was sent out as Commissioner of the Central Capital; Mengjian and Yelü Shuzhen submitted a congratulatory memorial.