Yelü Tanggu (耶律唐古)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelü Tanggu as an administrator, military officer, official, and royal family member. This record brings together 9 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 Tanggu	耶律唐古	Yēlǜ Tánggǔ
Courtesy	Diyi	敵隱
Given name	Tanggu	唐古
Personal	Tanggu	唐古	Tánggǔ
Given	Tanggu	唐古
Surname	Yelu	耶律
Surname	Yelü	耶律
Personal	Yelu Tanggu	耶律唐古	Yēlǜ Tánggǔ
Personal name	Yelü Tanggu	耶律唐古	Yēlǜ Tánggǔ

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:066:s0130, liaoshi:091:s0026
Value: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:059:s0053

Roles

Administrator
Military Officer
Official
Royal Family Member
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died · Age: Value: 78 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0045

Age

Value: 78 · Reckoning: sui · Relation: at-death
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0045

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 統和二十四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 24 · Western Year: AD 1006
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:091:s0028
Source Date: Text: 凡十四稔 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1055 · End: AD 1069
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:059:s0055, liaoshi:059:s0052
Source Date: Text: 道宗初年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1055 · End: AD 1064
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:059:s0053, liaoshi:059:s0052
Source Date: Text: 遼 · Western Interval: Start: AD 916 · End: AD 1125
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:066:s0130
Source Date: Text: 重熙四年 · Western Year: AD 1035
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:091:s0039
Source Date: Text: 重熙間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1032 · End: AD 1055
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:091:s0036

Family

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Descendant of Jundeshi (勻德實)
Kinship Term: descended from / 係出
Child of Wuzhi (屋質)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Mother of Yelu Tanggu (耶律唐古之母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Origins and identity

Label: Khitan / 契丹
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:059:s0053

Career and standing

Label: Military Commissioner of the Weiyan Tangut tribes / 隗衍党項部節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1032 · End: AD 1055
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0036
Label: Details Steady of the Tanggu tribe / 唐古部詳穩 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0028
Label: Junior General / 小將軍 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 統和二十四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 24 · Western Year: AD 1006
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0028
Label: Prefect of Haozhou / 豪州刺史 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0028
Label: Tangut military commissioner / 党項節度使 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:066:s0130
Label: Southwest Circuit Inspector / 西南面巡檢 · Action: transferred
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0028
Status: retired · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙四年 · Western Year: AD 1035
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0043

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: belonged-to
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:066:s0130
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0053, liaoshi:091:s0026
Place: Luju River / 臚朐河 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0054
Place: Zhenzhou / 鎮州 · Relation: transferred-to
Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0055

Learning and skills

Skill: literary composition / 屬文 · Level: skilled
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0027

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Statement: Since Kedun City was built, western tribes repeatedly troubled the border; better to hold former borders and reduce garrison duty.
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0039, liaoshi:091:s0040, liaoshi:091:s0041
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Statement: If the garrisons are too far away, when sudden alarm arises relief cannot arrive in time — this is no sound policy.
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0032

Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: petitioner · Action: asked that father Wuzhi's merits be carved on stone · Other Person Id: Wuzhi (屋質)
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0044
Kind: legal · Role: official · Action: established regulations forbidding sale of horses to Song and Xia borders
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0029, liaoshi:091:s0030
Kind: agricultural · Role: commander · Action: farmed-and-stockpiled-grain-over-fourteen-harvests · Place: Zhenzhou / 鎮州 · Outcome: accumulated-several-hundred-thousand-hu
Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0055
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: moved garrison to Zhenzhou; over fourteen harvests accumulated hundreds of thousands of hu; rice cheap
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0035
Kind: military · Role: advisor · Action: opposed expanding southwestern frontier west of Black Mountain; court accepted
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0032, liaoshi:091:s0033
Kind: political · Role: author · Action: presented Wuzhi's methods for pacifying people and controlling bandits · Other Person Id: Wuzhi (屋質) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和二十四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 24 · Western Year: AD 1006
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0028
Kind: agricultural · Role: supervisor · Action: supervised-farming-for-western-army · Place: Luju River / 臚朐河
Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0053, liaoshi:059:s0054
Kind: military · Role: supervisor · Action: urged farming beside Lujiong River to supply western army; great harvest
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0034
Relation: official-under · Person Id: Hongji (洪基)
Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0053

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: administered northwestern frontier; promoted farming; enemy dared not attack · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0101
Assessment: upright and cautious · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0027