Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Administrator

Yuan Ang 袁昂

Died AD 540

Passages
25
Chapters
4
Histories
3

Overview

The translated histories identify Yuan Ang as an administrator, aristocrat, family member, and official. This record brings together 25 passages from 4 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yuan Ang 袁昂 Yuan Ang
Given name Ang Áng
Posthumous Duke Mu 穆公 Mu Gong
Posthumous name Duke of Reverent Uprightness 穆正公
Courtesy name Qianli 千里 Qiānlǐ
Changed name Qianli 千里 Qiānlǐ
Surname Yuan Yuán
Personal name Yuan Ang 袁昂 Yuan Ang
Personal Yuan Ang Yuan Ang
Personal name Yuan Ang 袁昂 Yuán Áng
Alternate name Yuan Qianli 袁千里

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Aristocrat
  • Family Member
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同六年 · Western Year: AD 540
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0108

Age

  • Age: 15 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元徽中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 473 · End: AD 477
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0006
  • Age: 5 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 泰始初 · Western Year: AD 465
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0005
  • Age: 80 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同六年 · Western Year: AD 540
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0108

Attested activity

Family

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  • Kin of Yuan Tuan (袁彖)
    Kinship Term: elder cousin / 從兄 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Line: paternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Father of Yuan Tuan, Yuan Yi (袁顗)
  • Child of Birth Mother of Yuan Ang
    Kinship Term: birth mother / 所生母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Kin of Yuan Can (袁粲)
    Kinship Term: collateral uncle / 從叔 · Subject Role: uncle · Object Role: nephew · Line: paternal
  • Child of Yuan Yi (袁顗)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Line: paternal
  • Parent of Yuan Jing (袁敬)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
  • Child of Mother of Yuan Ang
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: uncertain · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Yuan Junzheng (君正)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Spouse of Mother of Yuan Junzheng
    Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: uncertain

Career and standing

  • Label: Grand Master of Splendid Happiness of the Left / 左光祿大夫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中大通五年 · Western Year: AD 533
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0107
  • Label: Supervisor of the Palace Secretariat / 中書監 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通元年 · Western Year: AD 527
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0105
  • Label: Grand Assessor of Yu province / 豫州大中正 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監七年 · Western Year: AD 508
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0097
  • Label: Libationer of the Imperial University / 國子祭酒 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監七年 · Western Year: AD 508
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0097
  • Label: Aide to the Prince of Linchuan, Rear Army / 後軍臨川王參軍事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監二年 · Western Year: AD 503
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0073
  • Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監二年 · Western Year: AD 503
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0094
  • Label: Administrator of Wu commandery / 吳郡太守 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監八年 · Western Year: AD 509
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0098
  • Label: General of Humane Might / 仁威將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監八年 · Western Year: AD 509
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0098
  • Label: Director of the Ministry of Personnel / 吏部尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監六年 · Western Year: AD 507
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0096
  • Label: Vice Director of the Right / 右僕射 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監六年 · Western Year: AD 507
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0096
  • Label: Director of the Five Armies / 五兵尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監十一年 · Western Year: AD 512
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0099
  • Label: Vice Director of the Right (substantive) / 右僕射 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監十一年 · Western Year: AD 512
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0099
  • Label: Director of the Department of State Affairs / 尚書令 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監十五年 · Western Year: AD 516
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0102
  • Label: General Who Proclaims Favor / 宣惠將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監十五年 · Western Year: AD 516
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0102
  • Label: Vice Director of the Left / 左僕射 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監十五年 · Western Year: AD 516
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0102
  • Label: General of the Central Guard / 中衛將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通三年 · Western Year: AD 522
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0104
  • Label: Metropolitan Governor of Danyang / 丹陽尹 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通三年 · Western Year: AD 522
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0103
  • Label: Supervisor of the Palace Secretariat / 中書監 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通三年 · Western Year: AD 522
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0103
  • Label: Minister of Works / 司空 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 梁世 · Western Interval: Start: AD 502 · End: AD 557
    Explicit · chenshu:017:s0113
  • Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 梁世 · Western Interval: Start: AD 502 · End: AD 557
    Explicit · chenshu:017:s0113
  • Label: Acting Aide to the Prince of Ancheng, General Who Conquers Champions / 冠軍安成王行參軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 齊初 · Western Year: AD 479
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0010
  • Label: Acting Inspector of Jiang province / 行江州事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0095
  • Label: Administrator of Wuxing / 吳興太守 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0041
  • Label: Administrator of Xunyang / 尋陽太守 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0095
  • Label: Attendant Gentleman of the Yellow Gate / 給事黃門侍郎 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0093
  • Label: Attendant of the Heir Apparent / 太子舍人 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0010
  • Label: Chancellor to the Duke of Xunyang / 尋陽公相 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0014
  • Label: Chief Clerk to the Prince of Poyang / 安南鄱陽王長史 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0014
  • Label: Chief Clerk to the Prince of Shaoling / 右軍邵陵王長史 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0036
  • Label: Chief Clerk to the Prince of Wuling / 衛軍武陵王長史 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0015
  • Label: General Who Establishes Might / 建武將軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0041
  • Label: Gentleman of the Yellow Gate / 黃門侍郎 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0012
  • Label: Grand General Who Pacifies the Army of the Center / 中撫軍大將軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0106
  • Label: Head of the Ministry of Commencements / 起部尚書 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0100
  • Label: Imperial Censor / 御史中丞 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0036
  • Label: Internal Administrator of Yuzhang / 豫章內史 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0038
  • Label: Junior Mentor to the Grand Heir Apparent / 太孫中庶子 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0015
  • Label: Merit Clerk on Wang Jian's Pacifying-Army staff / 鎮軍府功曹史 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0010
  • Label: Minister of Works / 司空 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0106
  • Label: Registrar of the General Who Pacifies the Barbarians / 征虜主簿 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0010
  • Label: Secretary of the Palace Library / 秘書丞 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0012
  • Label: Libationer of the Imperial University / 國子祭酒 · Action: resigned
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0106
  • Label: Director of the Left Bureau of the People / 左民尚書 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監六年 · Western Year: AD 507
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0096
  • Label: Exceptional Promotion / 特進 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中大通五年 · Western Year: AD 533
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0107
  • Label: Equal in Honor to the Three Excellencies / 開府儀同三司 · Action: granted
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0104
  • Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: granted
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0100
  • Label: posthumous offices and funerary gifts / 贈本官 · Action: granted
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0112
  • Title: Duke of Reverent Uprightness / 穆正公 · Action: posthumously granted
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0124
  • Status: exile · Action: ended · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元徽中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 473 · End: AD 477
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0006
  • Status: exile · Action: entered · Place: Jin'an / 晉安 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 泰始初 · Western Year: AD 465
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0005
  • Status: pardon · Action: received · Authority Person Id: Emperor Wu of Liang (梁武帝)
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0072

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: comforted troops with provisional staff · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監十四年 · Western Year: AD 515
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0101
  • Kind: travel · Role: mourner · Action: escorted birth mother's coffin through storm
  • Kind: legal · Role: prosecutor · Action: impeached · Other Person Id: Wang Xu (王詡)
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0037
  • Kind: political · Role: surrenderer · Action: presented himself at court after Jiankang fell
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0072
  • Kind: ritual · Role: mourner · Action: received father's head and kept vigil · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元徽中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 473 · End: AD 477
  • Kind: military · Role: resister · Action: refused to surrender to Liang rising · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永元末 · Western Year: AD 501
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0042
  • Kind: ritual · Role: mourner · Action: wore one-year mourning for cousin Tuan
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0018

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: preserved spirit of Boyi and Shuqi; pillar of Liang · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  • Assessment: upright · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0037
  • Item: eighty personal attendants / 親信八十人 · Relation: bestowed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中大通五年 · Western Year: AD 533
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0107
  • Item: thirty personal attendants / 親信三十人 · Relation: bestowed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通元年 · Western Year: AD 527
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0105
  • Item: martial music / 鼓吹 · Relation: bestowed
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0104

Source notes

  • From: Qianli / 千里 · To: Ang / 昂 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 齊永明中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 483 · End: AD 493
    Explicit · liangshu:031:s0013

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 33Volume 33 Biographies 25: Xiao Yuanming; Xiao Zhi (Liang); Xiao Tui; Xiao Fang (Liang); Xu Zhicai · 3 passages
Book of Chen, Chapter 17Volume 17: Wang Chong; Wang Tong; Yuan Jing · 1 passage
Book of Liang, Chapter 31Volume 31: Yuan Ang; Yuan Junzheng · 20 passages
Book of Liang, Chapter 36Volume 36: Kong Xiuyuan; Jiang Ge · 1 passage