Yeyan (葉延) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yeyan as a family member and tribal leader. This record brings together 6 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yeyan	葉延	Yèyán
Personal name	Yeyan	葉延	Yèyán

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · songshu:096:s0031

Roles

Family Member
Tribal Leader

Life and dates

Age

Value: 10 · Reckoning: suitui · At: childhood-revenge-ritual
Explicit · songshu:096:s0038
Value: 33 · Reckoning: suitui · At: death
Explicit · songshu:096:s0045

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 嗣立二十三年，年三十三 · Western Interval: Start: AD 323 · End: AD 346
Strongly inferred · songshu:096:s0045, songshu:096:s0060

Family

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Descendant of Yiluohan (弈洛韓)
Kinship Term: great-grandson / 曾孫 · Generation Distance: 3 · Line: paternal
Parent of Suixi (碎奚)
Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Subject Birth Order: 1 · Subject Relative Age: elder
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 1 · Object Relative Age: elder
Child of Tuyan (吐延)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Child of Mother of Yeyan
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother

Kinship Role: sons · Count: 4
Explicit · songshu:096:s0046

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Mode: direct-quotation
Explicit · songshu:096:s0042, songshu:096:s0043, songshu:096:s0040

Events and relationships

Kind: naming · Role: actor · Action: adopted-clan-surname-Tuyuhun
Explicit · songshu:096:s0042, songshu:096:s0043, songshu:096:s0044
Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: reigned · Duration Years: 23
Explicit · songshu:096:s0045
Kind: ritual · Role: actor · Action: shot-grass-effigy-named-Jiang-Cong
Explicit · songshu:096:s0038

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: profoundly filial · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · songshu:096:s0041

References in the histories

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Book of Song, Chapter 96Volume 96 Biographies 56: Xianbei and Tuyuhun Peoples · 6 passages

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吐延身長七尺八寸，勇力過人，性刻暴，為昴城羌酋姜聰所刺，劍猶在體，呼子葉延，語其大將絕拔渥曰：[4]「吾氣絕，棺斂訖，便遠去保白蘭。 Tuyan stood seven feet eight inches tall, with courage and strength beyond ordinary men, but his nature was harsh and violent. The Qiang chieftain of Maocheng, Jiang Cong, stabbed him; the blade still stood in his body. He summoned his son Yeyan and told his great general Jueba Wo: [4] "When I am gone, once I am coffined, withdraw far away and secure Bailan.

葉延小，意乃欲授與餘人，恐倉卒終不能相制。 Yeyan is still young; I had considered passing rule to another, but I fear that in a sudden crisis he could not hold them in check.

今以葉延付汝，汝竭股肱之力以輔之，孺子得立，吾無恨矣。」 I now entrust Yeyan to you—give all your strength to support him. If the boy can be established in power, I shall die without regret."

葉延少而勇果，年十歲，縛草為人，號曰姜聰，每旦輒射之，射中則喜，不中則號叫泣涕。 Yeyan was brave and resolute from boyhood. At ten he bound grass into a human figure, named it Jiang Cong, and shot at it every morning—when he hit it he rejoiced; when he missed he wailed and wept.

葉延嗚咽不自勝，答母曰：「誠知無益，然葉延罔極之心，不勝其痛耳。」 Yeyan sobbed uncontrollably and answered, "I know it does no good, but my boundless grief for my father cannot bear the pain."

性至孝，母病，三日不能食，葉延亦不食。 He was profoundly filial: when his mother fell ill and could not eat for three days, Yeyan ate nothing either.