Yixin (意辛) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yixin as an aristocrat, family member, and named individual. This record brings together 9 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	Yixin	意辛	Yixin
Personal name	Lady Xiao	蕭氏	Xiao shi
Descriptive kinship	Wife of Yelü Nu	耶律奴妻
Surname	Xiao	蕭	Xiao
Childhood name	Yixin	意辛	Yixin
Alternate name	Yixin	意幸	Yixing

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0047

Roles

Aristocrat
Family Member
Named Individual

Life and dates

Death

Cause: killed by rebels · Place: Linhuang / 臨潢 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保大中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1121 · End: AD 1125
Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0068, liaoshi:107:s0069

Age

Value: 20 · Reckoning: stated age at marriage
Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0049

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 大康三年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1077
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:107:s0056, liaoshi:107:s0057
Source Date: Text: 保大中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1121 · End: AD 1125
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:107:s0068, liaoshi:107:s0069
Source Date: Text: 壽隆中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1095 · End: AD 1101
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:107:s0065

Family

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Child of Taosuwo (陶蘇斡)
Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
Child of Princess Hudu (胡獨公主)
Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: mother
Parent of Guoyin (國隱)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Spouse of Yelü Nu (耶律奴)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband · Relationship State: active

Kinship Role: descendants · Label: sons and grandsons / 子孫 · Quantity: sons-and-grandsons
Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0065
Kinship Role: sons · Label: her sons / 諸子 · Quantity: unspecified
Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0068

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: lived-under
Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0047, liaoshi:107:s0068
Place: place of banishment / 貶所 · Relation: exiled-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康三年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1077
Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0063
Place: Linhuang / 臨潢 · Relation: resided-at · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保大中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1121 · End: AD 1125
Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0068

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Addressee Person Id: Hongji (洪基)
Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0058, liaoshi:107:s0059, liaoshi:107:s0060, liaoshi:107:s0061
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 壽隆中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1095 · End: AD 1101
Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0065
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0051, liaoshi:107:s0052, liaoshi:107:s0053, liaoshi:107:s0068

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: victim · Action: killed when Lu Yanlun rebelled · Other Person Id: Lu Yanlun (盧彥倫) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保大中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1121 · End: AD 1125
Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0068, liaoshi:107:s0069
Kind: political · Role: petitioner · Action: refused divorce and accompanied husband in exile · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康三年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1077
Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0057, liaoshi:107:s0062
Kind: political · Role: recalled · Action: whole household summoned home · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 壽隆中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1095 · End: AD 1101
Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0066

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: integrity unmatched even by fierce great men · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0097
Kind: physical-description · Statement: fine countenance
Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0049

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 107Volume 107 Biographies 37: Exemplary Women · 9 passages

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○邢簡妻陳氏耶律氏常哥耶律奴妻蕭氏耶律朮者妻蕭氏耶律中妻蕭氏 ○ Lady Chen, wife of Xing Jian; the Yelü clanswoman Changge; Lady Xiao, wife of Yelü Nu; Lady Xiao, wife of Yelü Shuzhe; Lady Xiao, wife of Yelü Zhong

耶律奴妻蕭氏，小字意辛，國舅駙馬都尉陶蘇斡之女。 Lady Xiao, wife of Yelü Nu, known by the childhood name Yixin, was the daughter of the State Uncle and Commandant-escort (imperial son-in-law) Taosuwo.

意幸美姿容，年二十始適奴。 Yixin was graced with fine features; at twenty she was first married to Nu.

嘗與娣姒會，爭言厭魅以取夫寵，意辛曰：「厭魅不若禮法。」 Once, at a gathering of sisters-in-law, they argued over whether witchcraft was the better way to win a husband's favor; Yixin said, "Witchcraft is not as good as ritual propriety."

眾問其故，意辛曰：「修己以潔，奉長以敬，事夫以柔，撫下以寬，毋使君子見其輕易，此之為禮法，自然取重於夫。 When they asked why, Yixin said, "Cultivate yourself in purity, serve your elders with respect, attend your husband with gentleness, and treat those below with generosity; do not let any worthy man see you behave lightly. That is ritual propriety, and by it you will naturally win your husband's regard.

上以意辛公主之女，欲使絕婚。 Because Yixin was a princess's daughter, the emperor wished to dissolve the marriage.

意辛辭曰：「陛下以妾葭莩之親，使免流竄，實天地之恩。 Yixin declined, saying, "Your Majesty, because I am kin by marriage, has spared me banishment—that is grace vast as Heaven and Earth.

意辛久在貶所，親執役事，雖勞無難色。 Yixin long remained in exile, personally performing menial labor; though the work was hard, her face showed no distress.

保大中，意辛在臨潢，謂諸子曰：「吾度盧彥倫必叛，汝輩速避，我當死之。」 During Baoda, while Yixin was at Linhuang, she told her sons, "I am sure Lu Yanlun will rebel—you must flee at once; I shall die for it."