Overview
Yuwen Xian was a Zhou Prince of Qi.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Attested activity
References in the histories
No matching passages.
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 17Volume 17 Biographies 9: Hulü Jin; Hulü Guang; Hulü Xian · 4 passages
直到宜陽，與周齊國公宇文憲、申國公拓跋顯敬相對十旬。
He pressed straight to Yiyang and faced Zhou Prince of Qi Yuwen Xian and Duke of Shen Tuoba Xianjing in stalemate for a hundred days.
軍還，行次安鄴，憲等衆號五萬，仍躡軍後，光縱騎擊之，憲衆大潰，虜其開府宇文英、都督越勤世良、韓延等，又斬首三百餘級。
On the return march, when the army reached Anye, Xian's force — fifty thousand strong — still trailed behind. Guang unleashed cavalry and Xian's men broke completely. He captured their Kaifu Yuwen Ying, supervisor Yueqin Shiliang, Han Yan, and others, and took more than three hundred heads besides.
憲仍令桀及其大將軍中部公梁洛都與景興、士彥等步騎三萬於鹿盧交塞斷要路。
Xian then ordered Jie and his grand general Central Duke Liang Luodu, together with Jingxing, Shiyan, and others, to post thirty thousand infantry and cavalry at the Lulu pass and cut the vital route.
其冬，光又率步騎五萬於玉壁築華谷、龍門二城，與憲、顯敬等相持，憲等不敢動。
That winter Guang again led fifty thousand infantry and cavalry to build the fortresses Huagu and Longmen at Yubi and faced Xian, Xianjing, and the others in stalemate; Xian's men did not dare move.