Song, Liao, and Jin · Historian

Yelü Yan 耶律儼

Attested AD 1000 - AD 1100

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yelü Yan was a historian.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1000 to AD 1100 耶律儼遼史后妃傳
Strongly inferred · History of Liao 71, passage 16

Works and attributed material

Liao History: Biographies of Empresses and Consorts 遼史·后妃傳
Relation Author
Directly stated · History of Liao 71, passage 16

References in the histories

History of Liao, Chapter 71Volume 71 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage

耶律儼、陳大任《遼史·后妃傳》，大同小異，酌取其當，著於篇。 The empress-and-consort biographies by Yelü Yan and Chen Daren in the earlier Liao History agree in the main but differ in detail; here we have chosen what fits and recorded it in full.