Overview
The translated histories identify Yuan Yanming as an administrator, courtier, general, and official. This record brings together 25 passages from 5 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Yuan Yanming | 元延明 | Yuan Yanming |
| Title | Palace Attendant Prince Anfeng | 侍中安豐王 | |
| Title | Prince Anfeng | 安豐王 | Anfeng wang |
| Title | Prince of Anfeng | 安豊王 | Anfeng Wang |
| Title | Prince Wenzuan | 文宣 | |
| Posthumous | Wenzuan | 文宣 | Wénxuān |
| Personal | Yanming | 延明 | Yánmíng |
| Personal | Yanming | 延明 | Yanming |
| Personal name | Yuan Yanming | 元延明 | Yuan Yanming |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · liangshu:036:s0108
- Sex: male
Roles
- Administrator
- Courtier
- General
- Official
- Royal Family Member
- Scholar
- Writer
Life and dates
Death
- Action: died · Place: Jiangnan / 江南Explicit · weishu:024:s0116
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 普通中 · Reign: 普通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 527Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:032:s0010
- Source Date: Text: 世宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 499 · End: AD 515Explicit event contextual date · weishu:024:s0097
- Source Date: Text: 六鎮、隴西二方起逆 · Western Interval: Start: AD 523 · End: AD 525Explicit event contextual date · weishu:086:s0048
- Source Date: Text: 出帝初 · Western Year: AD 532Explicit event contextual date · weishu:024:s0118
- Source Date: Text: 延昌初 · Western Year: AD 512Explicit event contextual date · weishu:024:s0098
- Source Date: Text: 普通中 · Western Year: AD 525Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:036:s0108
- Source Date: Text: 普通六年 · Western Year: AD 525Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:055:s0028
- Source Date: Text: 永安 · Western Interval: Start: AD 528 · End: AD 530Explicit event contextual date · weishu:024:s0156
- Source Date: Text: 肅宗初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 515 · End: AD 520Explicit event contextual date · weishu:024:s0099
- Source Date: Text: 莊帝時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 528 · End: AD 530Explicit event contextual date · weishu:024:s0114
Family
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- Child of Meng (猛)Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological
- Kinship Role: wife and children · Quantity: unspecified pluralExplicit · weishu:024:s0116
Career and standing
- Label: Grand Master of the Palace / 太中大夫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 世宗時 · Western Year: AD 499Explicit · weishu:024:s0097
- Label: Inspector of Yuzhou / 豫州刺史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 肅宗初 · Western Year: AD 515Explicit · weishu:024:s0099
- Label: Commander-in-Chief and Inspector of Xuzhou / 都督、徐州刺史 · Action: appointedExplicit · weishu:024:s0112
- Label: Eastern-Route Mobile Secretariat; Grand Commander of Xuzhou / 東道行臺、徐州大都督 · Action: appointedExplicit · weishu:024:s0108
- Label: overseer of metal and stone inscriptions / 監金石事 · Action: appointedExplicit · weishu:024:s0107
- Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: appointedExplicit · weishu:024:s0104
- Label: Director of Masters of Writing and Grand Marshal / 尚書令、大司馬 · Action: held-concurrently · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 莊帝時 · Western Year: AD 528Explicit · weishu:024:s0114
- Label: Right Vice Director of the Masters of Writing / 尚書右僕射 · Action: held-concurrentlyExplicit · weishu:024:s0106
- Label: Grand Mentor / 太保 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 出帝初 · Western Year: AD 532Explicit · weishu:024:s0118
- Label: Attendant of the Yellow Gate / 給事黃門侍郎 · Action: promotedExplicit · weishu:024:s0099
- Title: Prince of Anfeng / 安豊王 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通中 · Reign: 普通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 527Explicit · liangshu:032:s0010
Places and affiliations
- Place: home territory / 喪還 · Relation: remains-returned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 莊帝末 · Western Year: AD 530Explicit · weishu:024:s0117
Learning and skills
- Skill: broad learning and literary composition / 博極羣書，兼有文藻 · Level: renownedExplicit · weishu:024:s0100
Works and attributed material
- Work: poems, fu, hymns, inscriptions, and dirges / 詩賦讚頌銘誄 · Relation: author · Count: 300Explicit · weishu:024:s0119
- Explicit · weishu:024:s0105
- Work: Biographies of Transcendents / 列仙傳 · Relation: annotatorExplicit · weishu:024:s0119
- Work: Chronological Record of Emperors and Kings / 帝王世紀 · Relation: annotatorExplicit · weishu:024:s0119
- Work: nine chapters and twelve diagrams on music / 古今樂事九章十二圖 · Relation: authorExplicit · weishu:024:s0121
- Work: nine chapters on instrument standards / 器準九篇 · Relation: compilerExplicit · weishu:024:s0121
- Work: Separate Meanings of the Odes and Rites / 詩禮別義 · Relation: compilerExplicit · weishu:024:s0119
- Work: Summaries of the Five Classics / 五經宗略 · Relation: compilerExplicit · weishu:024:s0119
- Kind: counsel against reinforcing Chen Qingzhi · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Yuan Hao (元顥) · Provenance: Mode: direct-speech · Speaker Person Id: Yuan Yanming (元延明)
Events and relationships
- Explicit · weishu:024:s0108
- Kind: political · Role: fugitive · Action: fled-to · Other Person Id: Emperor Wu of Liang (梁武帝) · Place: Jiangnan / 江南Explicit · weishu:024:s0116
- Kind: military · Role: defender · Action: held · Place: Heqiao / 河橋 · Other Person Id: Yuan Hao (元顥)Explicit · weishu:024:s0115
- Kind: military · Action: helped usher Yuan Hao into Luoyang and prepare his accession · Role: combatant · Other Person Id: Yuan Hao (元顥) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529Explicit · liangshu:032:s0065
- Kind: military · Action: led Wei troops against Prince Zong and sent Qiu Daqian to fortify Xunliang · Role: commander · Other Person Id: Qiu Daqian (丘大千) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通中 · Reign: 普通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 527Explicit · liangshu:032:s0010, liangshu:032:s0011
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: recovered-territory · Place: Suyu / 宿豫 · Other Person Id: Xiao Zong (蕭綜)Explicit · weishu:024:s0111
- Kind: charitable · Role: benefactor · Action: relieved-famine-guests · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 延昌初 · Western Year: AD 512Explicit · weishu:024:s0098
- Explicit · liangshu:032:s0075
- Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Xindu Fang (信都芳)Explicit · weishu:024:s0120
- Relation: peer-of · Person Id: Yu (彧)Explicit · weishu:024:s0102, weishu:024:s0103
- Relation: peer-of · Person Id: Xi (熙)Explicit · weishu:024:s0102, weishu:024:s0103
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: frugal; did not amass property · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · weishu:024:s0101
- Assessment: learning broad; elegant conversation; fate led to exile · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
- Assessment: less witty than Xi and Yu but surpassed them in scholarship · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · weishu:024:s0103
- Assessment: restored livelihoods; people attached themselves to him · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · weishu:024:s0113
- Item: more than ten thousand scrolls of maps and books / 圖籍萬有餘卷 · Relation: collectedExplicit · weishu:024:s0100
References in the histories
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