Hou San (侯三) | 24 Histories

Overview

Hou San was an envoy.

PeriodFive Dynasties

IdentityHistorical · Male

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Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 926 to AD 933 明宗朝
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 66, passage 10

References in the histories

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 · 1 passage

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明宗遣回鶻侯三馳傳至其國，侯三至醴泉縣，地素僻，無驛馬，縣令劉知章出獵，不時給馬，侯三遽以聞。 Mingzong sent the Uighur envoy Hou San post-haste to his homeland. At remote Liquan County there were no relay mounts; the magistrate Liu Zhizhang was out hunting and failed to provide horses promptly, and Hou San reported the delay at once.