Yuan Heng 元亨

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
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Roles

• Administrator
• Aristocrat
• General
• Royal Family Member

Family

• Parent of Jihai (季海)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Inverse: true · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
• Child of Jihai (季海)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Child of Lady Li (李氏)
  Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

• Kinship Term: orphaned nephews / 孤侄 · Count: 8 · Note: eight orphaned paternal-line nephews who fled to Chang'an together with Heng and his mother; unindividuated in the text · Kinship Role: nephews
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Career and standing

• Label: Thousand-Ox Guard Attendant / 千牛備身
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• Label: Minister of Ceremonies / 太常卿 · Action: appointed · Authority Person Id: Emperor Wen (高祖) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 髙祖受禪 · Western Year: AD 581
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• Label: Governor of Weizhou / 衛州刺史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 尋出為衛州刺史 · Western Year: c. AD 582
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• Label: Regular Attendant of the Scattered Cavalry with Direct Transmission / 通直散騎常侍 · Action: appointed
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• Label: Governor of Luozhou / 洛州刺史 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宣帝時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 578 · End: AD 579
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• Label: Governor of Longzhou / 隴州刺史 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明、武時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 557 · End: AD 578
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• Label: General of the Martial Guard / 武衛將軍 · Action: held
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• Label: Governor of Xunzhou / 勳州刺史 · Action: held
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• Label: Grand Master for Rectification / 禦正大夫 · Action: held
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• Label: Junior Vice Minister of War / 小司馬 · Action: held
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• Label: Grand General / 大將軍 · Action: promoted
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• Action: increased · Fief Households Increase: 700 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 髙祖受禪 · Western Year: AD 581
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• Title: King of Fengyi / 馮翊王 · Action: inherited · Fief Households: 1000 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大統末 · Western Year: c. AD 551
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• Title: posthumous name Xuan / 宣 · Action: posthumously-granted
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• Title: King of Pingliang / 平涼王 · Action: re-enfeoffed
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• Title: Duke / 公 · Action: reduced · Reason: by precedent when Emperor Min of Zhou ascended the throne · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 周閔帝受禪 · Western Year: AD 557
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• Status: detained · Authority Person Id: Emperor Shenwu of Qi (齊神武帝) · Authority Polity: Qi / 齊 · Reason: his father Jihai was in the western territory (Western Wei)
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Places and affiliations

• Place: Luoyang in Henan / 河南洛陽
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Events and relationships

• Kind: social · Role: companion · Action: became-companion-of · Other Person Id: Emperor Gong of Wei (魏恭帝) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 亨年十二，魏恭帝在儲宮 · Western Interval: Start: c. AD 552 · End: c. AD 554
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• Kind: military · Role: military-commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Liang Kang (梁康) · With Person Id: Xing Liushui (邢流水) · Detail: attacked and routed the rebels with 2,000 hand-picked troops from Guanzhong · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 遇尉遲迥作亂 · Western Year: AD 580
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• Kind: flight · Role: fugitive · Action: fled-in-secret-to · Place: Chang'an / 長安 · With Person Id: Lady Li (李氏) · Other Person Id: Li Changshou (李長壽) · Detail: traveled hidden among the grasslands with his mother, Li Changshou, and eight orphaned nephews · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 李氏陰托大豪李長壽 · Western Year: c. AD 550
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• Kind: career · Role: official · Action: petitioned-for-retirement · Detail: due to old age and illness; officials and townspeople petitioned the throne asking that he remain in office
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• Kind: military · Role: military-commander · Action: seized-and-executed · Other Person Id: Wang Wenshu (王文舒) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 遇尉遲迥作亂 · Western Year: AD 580
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• Kind: political · Role: target · Action: was-plotted-against-by · Other Person Id: Wang Wenshu (王文舒) · With Person Id: Liang Kang (梁康) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 遇尉遲迥作亂 · Western Year: AD 580
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• Relation: raised-by · Person Id: Lady Li (李氏) · Kinship Term: mother / 母
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Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: the emperor sighed over the petitions for a long time; later sent envoys with medicine and inquiries continually along the road · Provenance: Mode: narrator-report
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• Assessment: Zhou Taizu was delighted to see him and, as the son of a founding minister, treated him with exceptional favor · Provenance: Mode: narrator-report
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• Kind: character · Statement: overcome with grief on receiving his princely appointment, unable to contain himself
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• Kind: governance · Statement: governed Weizhou with stern authority for eight years; local customs were thoroughly reformed
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