Five Dynasties · Envoy and Official

Zhou Yiyan 周易言

Zhōu Yìyán

Attested AD 911

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Overview

The translated histories identify Zhou Yiyan as a diplomat, envoy, and official. This record brings together 1 passage from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Zhou Yiyan 周易言 Zhōu Yìyán
Personal Yiyan 易言 Yìyán

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Diplomat
  • Envoy
  • Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Family

  • Sibling of Luemaizhi (略麥之)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother

Career and standing

  • Label: Acting Right General-in-Chief of the Right Gate Guard / 右監門衛大將軍同正 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:138:s0111

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 138Volume 138: Foreign States Biographies 2: Tubo, Huihu, Goryeo, Bohai Tungusic Tribes, Heishui Tungusic Tribes, Silla, Tangut, Kunming Tribes, Yutian, Champa, Zangkeman · 1 passage
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梁乾化元年十一月，遣都督周易言等入朝進貢，太祖御朝元殿引對，以易言爲右監門衛大將軍同正，以石壽兒、石論思並爲右千牛衛將軍同正，仍以左監門衛將軍楊沼充押領回鶻還蕃使，《五代會要》：以易言爲右監門衛大將軍同正，弟略麥之、石論思並爲左千牛衛將軍同正，李屋珠、安鹽山並爲右千牛衛將軍同正，仍以左鹽門衛上將軍楊沼爲左驍衛上將軍，充押領回鶻還番使。 In the eleventh month of the first year of Qianhua under Liang, commissioner Zhou Yiyan and others came to court with tribute. Emperor Taizu received them in audience at Chaoyuan Hall, appointing Yiyan Acting Right General-in-Chief of the Right Gate Guard, Shi Shou'er and Shi Lunci Acting Generals of the Right Thousand-Ox Guard, and Left Gate Guard General Yang Zhao envoy to escort the Uyghurs home. The Five Dynasties Essentials gives a fuller account: Yiyan as Acting Right General-in-Chief of the Right Gate Guard; his younger brother Luemaizhi and Shi Lunci as Acting Generals of the Left Thousand-Ox Guard; Li Wuzhu and An Yanshan as Acting Generals of the Right Thousand-Ox Guard; and Senior General Yang Zhao of the Left Gate Guard as Senior General of the Left Xiaowei Guard and envoy to escort the Uyghurs home.