Zhao Anren (趙安仁) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhao Anren as an eunuch, official, and spy. This record brings together 9 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhao Anren	趙安仁	Zhao Anren
Personal	Anren	安仁	Anren
Courtesy	Xiaoxi	小喜	Xiaoxi
Surname	Zhao	趙

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0038

Roles

Eunuch
Official
Spy

Life and dates

Death

Statement: end unknown / 後不知所終 · Unresolved: true
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0053

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 統和中 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Western Interval: Start: AD 983 · End: AD 1012
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0039
Source Date: Text: 重熙初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1032 · End: AD 1034
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:109:s0048, liaoshi:109:s0049
Source Date: Text: 開泰八年 · Western Year: AD 1019
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0041

Family

Kinship Role: parents and brothers · Label: parents and brothers / 父母兄弟 · Quantity: parents and brothers (unspecified number)
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0045

Career and standing

Label: chief intendant / 都提點 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0049
Label: chief steward of the Inner Attendant Service / 內侍省押班 · Action: appointed
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Label: Grand General of the Gate Guards / 監門衛大將軍 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0049
Label: Imperial Park courier / 禦院通進 · Action: appointed
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Label: Left Commissioner of Announcement / 左承宣 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0049
Label: superintendent of Khitan, Han, and Bohai inner attendants / 契丹漢人渤海內侍都知 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0049
Label: attendant at the mansion of the Prince of Qin and Jin / 秦晉國王府祗候 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和中 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Western Interval: Start: AD 983 · End: AD 1012
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Label: Yellow Gate Commandant / 黃門令 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和中 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Western Interval: Start: AD 983 · End: AD 1012
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0039
Status: captivity · Action: captured-by-patrol · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開泰八年 · Western Year: AD 1019
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0041
Status: captivity · Action: entered
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Status: pardoned · Action: pardoned · Authority Person Id: Yelü Longxu (耶律隆緒) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開泰八年 · Western Year: AD 1019
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0047, liaoshi:109:s0045

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0028, liaoshi:109:s0038
Place: Leshou in Shenzhou / 深州樂壽
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0038

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: fugitive · Action: again-plotted-escape · Other Person Id: Ren'ade (仁德皇后)
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0043
Kind: political · Role: conspirator · Action: aided-removal-of-empress-dowager · Other Person Id: Xingzong (興宗) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1032 · End: AD 1034
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0049
Kind: political · Role: conspirator · Action: plotted-flight-south · Other Person Id: Li Shengge (李勝哥) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開泰八年 · Western Year: AD 1019 · Outcome: captured by patrol troops
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0041
Kind: political · Role: accused · Action: silenced-by-empress-dowager-rebuke
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0052
Kind: political · Role: spy · Action: surveilled-empress · Other Person Id: Ren'ade (仁德皇后)
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0042
Relation: spy-for · Person Id: Empress Qin'ai (欽哀皇后)
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0042
Relation: served-in-household-of · Person Id: Prince of Qin and Jin (秦晉國王)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: filial heart in risking death to see kin · Provenance: Mode: named-speech · Speaker Person Id: Yelü Longxu (耶律隆緒)
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0045, liaoshi:109:s0046
Assessment: Yellow Gate Commandant fitting; Grand General excessive favor; failed to end well · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:109:s0054, liaoshi:109:s0055, liaoshi:109:s0057

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 109Volume 109 Biographies 39: Music and Imperial Officials · 9 passages

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◎宦官 ○王繼恩趙安仁 ◎ Eunuch Officials ○ Wang Jien and Zhao Anren

趙安仁，字小喜，深州樂壽人，自幼被俘。 Zhao Anren, whose style was Xiaoxi, came from Leshou in Shenzhou and had been taken captive as a boy.

初，仁德皇后與欽哀有隙，欽哀密令安仁伺皇后動靜，無不知者。 Earlier Empress Rende and Empress Dowager Qin'ai were estranged; Qin'ai secretly set Anren to spy on the empress's every move, and nothing escaped him.

仁德皇后威權既重，安仁懼禍，復謀亡歸。 When Empress Rende's power grew formidable, Anren feared for his life and again plotted to escape south.

聖宗曰：「小喜言父母兄弟俱在南朝，每一念，神魂隕越。 Emperor Shengzong said, "Xiaoxi reports that his parents and brothers all remain in the Song realm; the mere thought of them overwhelms his spirit.

帝與安仁謀，遷太后慶州守陵，授安仁左承宣、監門衛大將軍，充契丹漢人渤海內侍都知，兼都提點。 The emperor conspired with Anren, sent the empress dowager to Qingzhou to tend the imperial tombs, and appointed Anren Left Commissioner of Announcement and Grand General of the Gate Guards, making him superintendent of Khitan, Han, and Bohai inner attendants and chief intendant as well.

安仁無答。 Anren had nothing to say.

繼恩為內謁者，安仁為黃門令，似矣，何至溺於私愛，而授以觀察使、大將軍耶？ Jien as Inner Attendant and Anren as Yellow Gate Commandant would have been fitting enough—how could private affection run so deep that they were made military commissioners and grand generals?

此安仁所以不克有終，繼恩幸而免歟？ Is this not why Anren failed to end well, while Jien was fortunate enough to escape a similar fate?