Zhao Yanshou (趙延壽)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhao Yanshou as an administrator, aristocrat, general, and military officer. This record brings together 26 passages from 12 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhao Yanshou	趙延壽	Zhao Yanshou
Title	Prince of Yan	燕王	Yānwáng
Title	Prince of Yan	燕王	Yan Wang
Title	Prince Wei	魏王	Wèi wáng
Given name	Yanshou	延壽
Given	Yanshou	延壽	Yánshòu
Surname	Zhao	趙	Zhào
Personal name	Zhao Yanshou	趙延壽	Zhao Yanshou
Personal	Zhao Yanshou	趙延壽
Personal	Zhao Yanshou	趙延壽	Zhào Yánshòu
Personal name	Zhao Yanshou	趙延壽	Zhào Yánshòu
Personal name	Zhao Yanshou	趙延壽

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0042, jiuwudaishi:096:s0204, liaoshi:005:s0048, xinwudaishi:007:s0072, xinwudaishi:049:s0085
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:127:s0024, liaoshi:086:s0025
Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:042:s0008, jiuwudaishi:066:s0090
Value: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0027, xinwudaishi:073:s0011

Roles

Administrator
Aristocrat
General
Military Officer
Named Individual
Official
Royal Family Member
Ruler
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 冬十月壬午 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:005:s0048

Attested activity

Western Year: AD 947 · Source Date: Text: Chronology stated or entailed by s0011
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:073:s0011
Source Date: Text: 三月辛丑 · Western Year: AD 935
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:007:s0072
Source Date: Text: 冬十月壬午 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:005:s0048
Source Date: Text: 出帝 · Western Year: AD 944
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0085
Source Date: Text: 天成四年夏四月 · Western Year: AD 929
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:040:s0042
Source Date: Text: 天福元年降契丹 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:008:s0040
Source Date: Text: 契丹屯於元城，趙延壽寇南樂。 · Western Year: AD 944
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:009:s0088
Source Date: Text: 應歷前 · Western Interval: Start: AD 947 · End: AD 950
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:086:s0025
Source Date: Text: 明宗末任事 · Western Interval: Start: AD 928 · End: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:008:s0027
Source Date: Text: 末帝登極 · Western Interval: Start: AD 934 · End: AD 936
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:096:s0204
Source Date: Text: 清泰三年 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:127:s0024, jiuwudaishi:127:s0025
Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:042:s0008, jiuwudaishi:042:s0044
Source Date: Text: 長興四年 · Western Year: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:066:s0090
Source Date: Text: 開運四年 · Western Year: AD 947
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:085:s0111

Family

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Child of Zhao Dejun (趙德鈞)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father and son / 父子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Mother of Zhao Yanshou (趙延壽母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Spouse of Princess of Xingping (興平公主)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband
Sibling of Wife of Wuyu (兀欲妻)
Kinship Term: younger sister / 妹 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-sister

Career and standing

Label: Inspector Grand Tutor; acting Minister of Rites; Privy Commissioner / 檢校太傅、行禮部尚書、樞密使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0044
Label: Left Martial Guard senior general; Northern Palace Bureau commissioner / 左武衛上將軍、宣徽北院使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0008
Label: Song prefecture military commissioner / 宋州節度使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0042
Label: regent of the Southern Capital / 南京留守 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 冬十月壬午 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:005:s0048
Label: Confidential commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:096:s0204
Office: Privy Council commissioner
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0005
Office: provisional overseer of military and state affairs
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0012
Title: Prince of Yan / 燕王 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0025
Title: Prince Wei / 魏王 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:005:s0048
Title: Prince of Yan
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0019, xinwudaishi:073:s0021
Status: defector from Later Tang · Action: surrendered and was fettered by the Khitan
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0040
Action: chained, guarded, and property inventoried · Accusation: plotting rebellion
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0019, xinwudaishi:073:s0024

Places and affiliations

Polities: Khitan, Later Tang
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0005
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:005:s0048
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:049:s0085

Events and relationships

Kind: appointment · Role: patron · Action: recruited Liu Jing · Other Person Id: Liu Jing (劉景)
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0025
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: sent-north
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0025
Kind: military · Role: captor · Action: took · Other Person Id: Tang Jingsi (唐景思)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0085
Relation: recommended-for-command · Person Id: Gaozu of Jin (晉高祖)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:008:s0027

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 40Volume 40 Book of Later Tang 16: Mingzong Annals 6 · 1 passage

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以河陽節度使趙延壽為宋州節度使； Zhao Yanshou of Heyang became Song commissioner;

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 2 passages

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二月己丑朔，以宋州節度使趙延壽為左武衛上將軍，充宣徽北院使。 On the jichou new moon of the second month Zhao Yanshou of Song became left martial guard senior general and northern palace bureau commissioner.

甲辰，以宣徽北院使、左衛上將軍趙延壽為檢校太傅、行禮部尚書，充樞密使。 On jiachen Zhao Yanshou became inspector grand tutor, acting rites minister, and privy commissioner.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 66Volume 66 Book of Later Tang 42: Biographies 8: an Zhonghui, Zhu Hongzhao, Zhu Hongshi, Kang Yicheng, Yao Yanchou, Song Lingxun · 3 passages

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樞密使范延光、趙延壽日夕更見，涕泣求去，明宗怒而不許。 Commissioners Fan Yanguang and Zhao Yanshou wept daily for release; Mingzong refused in anger.

延壽使其妻興平公主入言於中，延光亦因孟漢瓊、王淑妃進說，故皆得免。 Yanshou's wife the Princess of Xingping pleaded within; Yanguang used Meng Hanqiong and Consort Wang—both won leave.

未幾，趙延壽出鎮汴州，召弘昭於襄陽，代為樞密使，加同平章事。 Soon Zhao Yanshou went to Bian; Hongzhao was recalled from Xiangyang as Privy Council commissioner with co-chief councilor rank.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 96Volume 96 Book of Later Jin 22: Biographies 11: Kong Chongbi, Chen Baoji, Wang Yu, Zhang Jizuo, Zhen Ruan, Hu Rao, Liu Suiqing, Fang Gao, Meng Chenghui, Liu Jixun, Zheng Shouyi, Cheng Xun, Li Yu, Zheng Xuansu, Ma Zhongji, Chen Xuan · 1 passage

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及末帝登極，歷南北院宣徽使，尋與趙延壽同為樞密使。 When the Last Emperor ascended the throne, Gao served successively as commissioner of the southern and northern palace secretariat bureaus, and soon shared the post of confidential commissioner with Zhao Yanshou.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 127Volume 127 Book of Later Zhou 29: Biographies 7: Lu Wenji, Ma Yisun, He Ning, Su Yugui, Jing Fan · 2 passages

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會延朗與趙延壽款密，傍奏曰：「文紀之言是也。」 Yanlang was then intimate with Zhao Yanshou. He whispered: "Wenji is right."

故令延壽北行，末帝坐俟其敗。 So Yanshou was sent north while the Last Emperor sat back expecting his failure.

History of Liao, Chapter 5Volume 5 Annals 5: Shizong · 1 passage

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冬十月壬午，南京留守魏王趙延壽薨，以中臺省右相牒哷葛為南京留守，封燕王。 On renwu day in the tenth winter month Zhao Yanshou, Prince Wei and regent of the Southern Capital, died; Dielige, right chancellor of the Central Secretariat, was made regent of the Southern Capital and enfeoffed as Prince of Yan.

History of Liao, Chapter 86Volume 86 Biographies 16: Yelu Hezhu, Liu Jing, Liu Liufu, Ye Luniaolu, Niu Wenshu, Du Fang, Xiao Heshang, Yelu Helizhi, Yelu Pode · 1 passage

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燕王趙延壽辟為幽都府文學。 Zhao Yanshou, Prince of Yan, took him on as literary officer of the Youdu prefectural staff.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 7Volume 7 Later Tang Annals 4: Deposed Emperors · 1 passage

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三月辛丑，忠武軍節度使趙延壽為樞密使。 On xinchou of the third month Zhao Yanshou, military governor of Zhongwu, became Bureau Military Affairs commissioner.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 8Volume 8 Later Jin Annals 1: Gaozu · 2 passages

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明宗數責大臣問誰可行者，範延光、趙延壽等卒以敬瑭為請，乃拜河東節度使、大同彰國振武威塞等軍蕃漢馬步軍總管，落六軍副使，乃行。 Mingzong upbraided his council again and again for a suitable man. Fan Yanguang and Zhao Yanshou at last proposed Jingtang. He received Hedong and command over Han and tribal forces of Datong, Zhangguo, Zhenwu, Weisai, and the rest, shed the Six Armies deputy title, and marched.

甲戌，趙德鈞及其子延壽叛於唐來降，契丹鎖之以歸。 On jiaxu Zhao Dejun and Yanshou defected from Tang; the Khitan bound them and led them away.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 9Volume 9 Later Jin Annals 2: the Emperor That Fled · 1 passage

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契丹屯於元城，趙延壽寇南樂。 The Khitan main force camped at Yuancheng while Zhao Yanshou struck Nanle.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 49Volume 49 Miscellaneous Biographies 29: Di Guangye, Feng Hui, Huang Fuhui, Tang Jingsi, Wang Jin, Chang Si, Sun Fangjian · 1 passage

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出帝時，契丹攻陷貝州，景思為趙延壽所得，以為壕砦使。 Under the Deposed Emperor the Khitan took Bei; Jingsi fell to Zhao Yanshou and was made trench commissioner.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 73Volume 73: Appendix on the Four Barbarians 2: Khitan 2 · 10 passages

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其自契丹歸中國，載書數千卷，樞密使趙延壽每假其異書、醫經，皆中國所無者。 On returning from Khitan lands to China he carried thousands of books; Zhao Yanshou, the Privy Council commissioner, often borrowed his exotic texts and medical treatises—works none in China had.

德光死欒城，兀欲與趙延壽及諸大將等俱入鎮州。 When Deguang died at Luancheng, Wuyu entered Zhen Prefecture with Zhao Yanshou and the other senior commanders.

延壽自稱權知軍國事，遣人求鎮州管鑰于兀欲，兀欲不與。 Yanshou proclaimed himself provisional overseer of military and state affairs and sent men to demand the keys to Zhen Prefecture from Wuyu, but Wuyu refused.

延壽左右曰：「契丹大人聚而謀者詾詾，必有變，宜備之。 His advisers said, "The Khitan chiefs are meeting in a noisy council—something is surely afoot; you must guard against it.

延壽猶豫不決。 Yanshou wavered and could not decide.

兀欲妻，延壽以為妹，五月朔旦，兀欲召延壽及張礪、李崧、馮道等置酒，酒數行，兀欲謂延壽曰：「妹自上國來，當一見之。」 On the first day of the fifth month Wuyu invited Yanshou, Zhang Li, Li Song, Feng Dao, and others to drink; after several rounds he said, "My wife has just arrived from the north—she is your sister by marriage and you should meet her."

延壽欣然與兀欲俱入。 Yanshou went in with Wuyu in high spirits.

食頃，兀欲出坐，笑謂礪等曰：「燕王謀反，鎖之矣。 Before long Wuyu reappeared and told Li and the rest with a smile, "The Prince of Yan was plotting rebellion; I have put him in chains.

又曰：「先帝在汴州與我算子一莖，許我知南朝軍國事，昨聞寢疾，無遺命，燕王安得自擅邪？」 He went on, "At Bianzhou the late emperor gave me a single counting rod and promised I would govern the Southern Court's armies and state; when he fell ill without a final order, how could the Prince of Yan seize power on his own?"

兀欲召延壽廷立而詰之，延壽不能對。 Wuyu had Yanshou brought before him in the hall and interrogated him; Yanshou had no reply.