Zhe Xiyan (折希顏) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhe Xiyan as a general and rebel. This record brings together 5 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	Zhe Xiyan	折希顏	Zhé Xīyán
Personal name	Zhe Xiyan	折希顏	Zhé Xīyán

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jinshi:115:s0002

Roles

General
Rebel

Life and dates

Death

Manner: beheaded · Place: outside Liang Gate / 梁門外
Explicit · jinshi:115:s0134

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天興三年六月 · Western Year: AD 1234
Explicit event contextual date · jinshi:115:s0134, jinshi:115:s0125
Source Date: Text: 天興二年 · Western Year: AD 1233
Explicit event contextual date · jinshi:115:s0093

Family

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Spouse of Sister of Cui Li (崔立之妹)
Kinship Term: husband / 婿 · Union Category: marriage
Kin of Cui Li (崔立)
Kinship Term: sister's husband / 妹婿

Events and relationships

Relation: partisan-of · Person Id: Cui Li (崔立)
Explicit · jinshi:115:s0093

References in the histories

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History of Jin, Chapter 115Volume 115 Biographies 53: Wanyan Nushen, Cui Li, Li Qi, Nie Tianji, Chizhan Weixin · 5 passages

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其党孛術魯長哥御史中丞，韓鐸都元帥兼知開封府事，折希顏、藥安國、張軍奴並元帥，師肅左右司郎中，賈良兵部郎中兼右司都事，內府之事皆主之。 His followers received offices: Boshulu Changge became censor-in-chief; Han Duo overall marshal and concurrent prefect of Kaifeng; Zhe Xiyan, Yao Anguo, and Zhang Junnu all marshals; Shi Su left and right bureau director; Jia Liang bureau director of war and concurrent right bureau director. They controlled all inner palace affairs.

李琦者，山西人，為都尉，在陳州與粘哥奴申同行省事，陳州變，入京，附崔立妹婿折希顏，娶夾谷元之妻，妻年二十余，有姿色，立初拘隨駕官之家屬，妻輿病而往，得免。 Li Qi was from Shanxi and served as a commandant. At Chen Prefecture he worked with Zhange Nushen as acting branch secretariat director. When Chen mutinied he fled to the capital and attached himself to Cui Li's brother-in-law Zhe Xiyan. He married the wife of Jiagu Yuan, a woman of more than twenty renowned for her beauty. When Cui Li first detained the families of officials who had accompanied the emperor, she went in a litter feigning illness and was spared.

琦又數為折希顏所折辱，乃首建殺立之謀。 Qi had also been repeatedly humiliated by Zhe Xiyan and was the first to propose killing Cui Li.

比明，伯淵等身來約立視火，立從苑秀、折希顏數騎往，諭京城民十五以上、七十以下男子皆詣太廟街點集。 At dawn Boyuan and the others came in person to invite Cui Li to inspect the fire. Cui Li went with Yuan Xiu, Zhe Xiyan, and several horsemen and ordered all men in the capital aged fifteen to seventy to assemble on Taimiao Street for roll call.

折希顏後至不知，見立墜馬，謂與人鬥，欲前解之，隨為軍士所斫，被創走梁門外，追斬之。 Zhe Xiyan arrived later unaware of the plot. Seeing Cui Li fall from his horse, he thought he was fighting someone and tried to intervene. Soldiers hacked him down. Wounded, he fled outside the Liang Gate and was pursued and beheaded.