Overview
The translated histories identify Yi Louqian as an administrator, aristocrat, diplomat, and general. This record brings together 16 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 | Yi Louqian | 伊婁謙 | Yi Louqian |
| Given name | Qian | 謙 | |
| Given | Qian | 謙 | Qiān |
| Courtesy name | Yangong | 彥恭 | |
| Surname | Yi Lou | 伊婁 | |
| Surname | Yi Lou | 伊婁 | Yīlóu |
| Personal name | Yi Louqian | 伊婁謙 | |
| Personal | Yi Louqian | 伊婁謙 | Yīlóu Qiān |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleExplicit · suishu:054:s0055, suishu:054:s0257
Roles
- Administrator
- Aristocrat
- Diplomat
- General
- Official
- Statesman
Life and dates
Death
- Date Context: Source Date: Text: 數歳 · Qualitative: several years later · Manner: unspecified-illness · Place: at home / 家 · Age: 70Explicit · suishu:054:s0087
Age
- Age: 70 · At Event: deathExplicit · suishu:054:s0087
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 周受禪 · Western Year: AD 557Explicit event contextual date · suishu:054:s0061
- Source Date: Text: 大象中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 579 · End: AD 581Explicit event contextual date · suishu:054:s0081
- Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 618 · Source Date: Text: 隋Strongly inferred · suishu:054:s0257
- Source Date: Text: 髙祖受禪 · Western Year: AD 581Explicit event contextual date · suishu:054:s0084
Family
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- Descendant of Xin (信)Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: grandfather · Object Role: grandson · Generation Distance: 2
- Child of Jie (傑)Kinship Term: son / 子 · Inverse: true · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
- Child of Ling (靈)Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
- Parent of Jie (傑)Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Origins and identity
- Ethnicity: Xianbei / 鮮卑Explicit · suishu:054:s0055
- Statement: forebears were tribal chieftains for generations and migrated south with the Wei courtExplicit · suishu:054:s0056
Career and standing
- Label: Left Commander of the Martial Guard / 左武候將軍 · Action: appointed · Authority Person Id: Emperor Wen (高祖) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 髙祖受禪 · Western Year: AD 581Explicit · suishu:054:s0084
- Label: Governor of Zezhou / 澤州刺史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 數年 · Qualitative: several years laterExplicit · suishu:054:s0085
- Label: Area Commander of Bozhou / 亳州總管 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 髙祖作相 · Western Year: AD 580Explicit · suishu:054:s0082
- Label: Opening of a Government Office / 開府 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大象中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 579 · End: AD 581Explicit · suishu:054:s0081
- Label: Direct Gate General / 直閣將軍 · Action: held · Polity: Wei / 魏Explicit · suishu:054:s0060
- Label: General of Chariots and Cavalry, Bearing the Staff of Authority / 使持節、車騎大將軍 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 周受禪 · Western Year: AD 557Explicit · suishu:054:s0061
- Label: Senior Clerk for Proclamations and Reception / 宣納上士 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 周受禪 · Western Year: AD 557Explicit · suishu:054:s0061
- Label: Grand General / 大將軍 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 髙祖受禪 · Western Year: AD 581Explicit · suishu:054:s0084
- Label: Grand Master of the Vanguard / 前驅中大夫 · Action: promotedExplicit · suishu:054:s0080
- Label: Area Commander of Bozhou / 亳州總管 · Action: recalled-from · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 髙祖作相 · Western Year: AD 580Explicit · suishu:054:s0082
- Title: Earl of Jiyang County / 濟陽縣伯 · Action: enfeoffedExplicit · suishu:054:s0080
- Title: Marquis / 侯 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大象中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 579 · End: AD 581Explicit · suishu:054:s0081
- Title: Duke / 公 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 髙祖受禪 · Western Year: AD 581Explicit · suishu:054:s0084
- Status: detained · Authority Polity: Qi / 齊 · Reason: betrayed by his own staff officer Gao ZunExplicit · suishu:054:s0071
Places and affiliations
- Polity: Sui / 隋 · Relation: servedStrongly inferred · suishu:054:s0257
Works and attributed material
- Kind: petition · Role: author · Other Person Id: Gao Zun (高遵) · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · suishu:054:s0257
- Kind: remark · Role: speaker · Statement: (prostrated himself and begged pardon for Zun) · Provenance: Mode: narrator-report · Speaker Person Id: Yi Louqian (伊婁謙)Explicit · suishu:054:s0075
- Explicit · suishu:054:s0068
- Kind: remark · Role: speaker · Statement: For Zun's crime, spitting in the face is not the appropriate punishment. · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Yi Louqian (伊婁謙)Explicit · suishu:054:s0076
- Kind: remark · Role: speaker · Statement: From the time I took my post I have not heard of mobilizing armies. Even if the west again strengthened the walls of White Emperor City and the east added garrisons at Baqiu, that would be the constant reasoning of human affairs—why should it be surprising! · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Yi Louqian (伊婁謙)Explicit · suishu:054:s0069, suishu:054:s0070
- Kind: remark · Role: speaker · Statement: Your foolish subject truly is not enough to know great affairs, but the false Qi usurps and is overbearing and insolent, drowning in actors and singers and sunk in debauchery and wine. Its general who breaks enemy ranks, Hulu Yue, is already dead; slanderers are active and superiors and subordinates are divided in heart; people on the roads narrow their eyes in fear. If Your Majesty commands the Six Armies, that is this subject's wish. · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Yi Louqian (伊婁謙)
- Explicit · suishu:054:s0062, suishu:054:s0072
Events and relationships
- Kind: legal · Role: petitioner · Action: begged-pardon · Other Person Id: Gao Zun (高遵) · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · suishu:054:s0257
- Kind: career · Role: official · Action: resigned-due-to-illnessExplicit · suishu:054:s0086
- Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: sent-to-observe · With Person Id: Tuoba Wei (拓拔偉) · Place: Qi / 齊 · Authority Person Id: Emperor Wu (武帝) · Detail: sent to spy out Qi's condition ahead of the invasion · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武帝將伐齊 · Western Interval: Start: AD 575 · End: AD 577Explicit · suishu:054:s0066
- Relation: intercessor-for · Person Id: Gao Zun (高遵)Explicit · suishu:054:s0257
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: far-reaching ambition and breadth of mind; bearing of a true gentleman of the realm · Label: far-reaching ambition and breadth of mind; did not bear old grudges; bearing of a true gentleman of the realm / 志量弘遠，不念舊惡……有國士之風焉 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · suishu:054:s0257
- Assessment: officials and townspeople clung to him in farewell, following for several hundred li without ceasing · Provenance: Mode: narrator-reportExplicit · suishu:054:s0086
- Kind: character · Statement: in the end treated Gao Zun exactly as before; magnanimity, kindness, and forbearance were characteristic of himExplicit · suishu:054:s0078, suishu:054:s0079
- Kind: character · Statement: loyal and forthright by nature, skilled in eloquence and discourseExplicit · suishu:054:s0059
- Kind: governance · Statement: frugal and self-restrained; greatly won the harmony and affection of the peopleExplicit · suishu:054:s0085
Source notes
- From: Qian / 謙 · To: Yangong / 彥恭 · Reason: ashamed to share the given name Qian with the executed rebel Wang Qian after his rebellion was crushed · Other Person Id: Wang Qian (王謙) · Name Kind: courtesy-name-adopted-in-place-of-given-name · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 旣平王謙 · Western Year: AD 580Explicit · suishu:054:s0083
References in the histories
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