Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official

Yuan Wenyao 元文遙

Attested AD 543 - AD 570

Passages
26
Chapters
3
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Yuan Wenyao as an aristocrat, official, and statesman. This record brings together 26 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yuan Wenyao 元文遙 Yuan Wenyao
Courtesy Deyuan 德遠 Déyuǎn
Changed Gao Gāo
Given Wenyao 文遙 Wényáo
Given Wenyao 文遙
Surname Yuan Yuán
Personal name Yuan Wenyao 元文遙 Yuan Wenyao
Personal Yuan Wenyao 元文遙 Yuán Wényáo

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 世祖踐祚 · Western Interval: Start: AD 561 · End: AD 565
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:040:s0010
  • Source Date: Text: 天統二年 · Western Year: AD 566
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:038:s0073
  • Source Date: Text: 後主嗣位 · Western Year: AD 565
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:038:s0089
  • Source Date: Text: 武定中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 543 · End: AD 550
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:038:s0063
  • Source Date: Text: 齊世 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 570
    Explicit · beiqishu:033:s0171
  • Source Date: Text: 齊受禪 · Western Year: AD 550
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:038:s0064

Family

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  • Descendant of Yuan Zun (元遵)
    Kinship Term: fifth-generation ancestor / 五世祖 · Generation Distance: 5
    Kinship Term: fifth-generation ancestor / 五世祖 · Generation Distance: 5
  • Descendant of Emperor Zhaocheng (昭成皇帝)
    Kinship Term: sixth-generation descendant / 六世孫 · Generation Distance: 6
  • Child of Yuan Xi (元晞)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  • Child of Mother of Yuan Wenyao
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
  • Parent of Yuan Xinggong (元行恭)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: left vice director of the masters of writing / 尚書左僕射 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · beiqishu:038:s0074
  • Label: secretariat drafting officer / 中書舍人 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · beiqishu:038:s0064
  • Title: duke of Ningdu commandery / 寧都郡公 · Action: advanced
    Explicit · beiqishu:038:s0074
  • Title: baron of Yongle county / 永樂縣伯 · Action: enfeoffed
    Explicit · beiqishu:038:s0070
  • Status: granted surname Gao · Action: received
    Explicit · beiqishu:038:s0073

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

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 · 1 passage
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 38Volume 38 Biographies 30: Xin Shu; Yuan Wenyao; Zhao Yanshen · 22 passages
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 40Volume 40 Biographies 32: Yu Jin (Northern Qi); Feng Zicong; Helian Ziyue; Tang Yong; Bai Jian · 3 passages