Jiang Yan (江淹) | 24 Histories

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Jiang Yan was an official and Writer.

IdentityHistorical · Male

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Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Wentong	文通	Wentong
Posthumous name	Xianbo	憲伯	Xianbo

Date Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 505 · Age Value: 62 · Reckoning: Sui
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 302

AD 480 to AD 505 始江淹已爲十志
Event Jiang Yan's authorship of the ten Qi-history treatises, after the Jian'yuan 2 commission and no later than his death in Tianjian 4 (AD 480-505). Uncertainty bounds, not actual composition endpoints; the preface presents this work as preceding Xiao Zixian's separate history.
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 60, passage 2
AD 480 建元二年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 19, passages 163-164
AD 477 to AD 482 AD 477-482
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 48, passage 62
AD 483 to AD 491 Liu Huaiwei's Yongming career
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 119
AD 494 narrative year of Qi Records 4 / Wei Taihe 18, after 癸卯
Dated from the passage context · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 357
AD 482 to AD 493 世祖
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 43, passages 186, 188

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AD 501 中興元年
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 294
c. AD 444 to c. AD 505 二子
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 14, passages 283-284
AD 505 四年
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 302
AD 502 天監元年
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 296
AD 479 建元初
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 85
AD 477 昇明初
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 65
AD 501 東昏末
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 287
AD 499 to AD 501 永元中
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 102
AD 483 to AD 493 永明中
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 241
AD 483 永明初
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 87
AD 444 to AD 505 江淹字文通
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 3
AD 501 義師至
Directly stated · Book of Liang 16, passage 105

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

尚書駕部郎
AD 477 昇明初 · Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 65
South Xuzhou staff officer 南徐州從事
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 5
御史中丞
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 90
Jian'an magistrate 建安吳興令
Demoted
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 63
Censor-in-Chief 御史中丞
AD 494 narrative year of Qi Records 4 / Wei Taihe 18, after 癸卯 · Held
Dated from the passage context · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 357
founding Count of Linju 臨沮縣開國伯
Enfeoffed · Households 400
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 296

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AD 494 narrative year of Qi Records 4 / Wei Taihe 18, after 癸卯
Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Served
Dated from the passage context · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 357
Liang 梁
Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 296
Southern Qi 齊
Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 65
Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 19, passage 164
Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 241
Polity Id liu-song · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passages 5-6

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Skill five-character verse 五言詩 · Level noted
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 43, passages 186, 188

Ten Annals of Qi History 齊史十志
Relation Author
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 105
literary works 二子之作
Relation Author
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 283
ten treatises 十志
Relation Author
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 60, passage 2
national history 國史
Relation Compiler
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passages 85, 87
Speech · Speaker · Addressed to Emperor Gao of Qi (齊高帝)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passages 67, 71, 81
Memorial · Author · Addressed to Liu Jingsu (劉景素)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passages 8-50

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AD 494 narrative year of Qi Records 4 / Wei Taihe 18, after 癸卯
Impeachment · Author · Paraphrased · With Liu Quan (劉悛)
Dated from the passage context · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 357
Speech · Speaker
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passages 297, 300

Asked Wang Jian about ancient script pillars found after the Shiyang mountain collapse
AD 480 建元二年 · Scholarly · Questioner · With Wang Jian (王儉)
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 19, passages 163-164
Called on princes every five days
Court · Visitor · With Yu Gao (庾杲之)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 241
Drafted ten treatises for a Qi history
Scholarly · Author
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 60, passage 2
Impeached Liu Quan and Yin Zhibo for accepting bribes worth tens of thousands
AD 494 narrative year of Qi Records 4 / Wei Taihe 18, after 癸卯 · Legal · Accuser · With Liu Quan (劉悛)
Dated from the passage context · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 357
Impeached Yin Zhibo together with Liu Quan
AD 494 narrative year of Qi Records 4 / Wei Taihe 18, after 癸卯 · Legal · Accuser · With Yin Zhibo (陰智伯)
Dated from the passage context · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 357
Impeached
Legal · Prosecutor · With Xie Fei (謝朏)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 94

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Refused
Military · Nonparticipant · With Cui Huijing (崔慧景)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 102
Released
Political · Petitioner · With Liu Jingsu (劉景素)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 51
Remonstrated
Political · Adviser · With Liu Jingsu (劉景素)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passages 56, 58-59
Relation Retainer of · Person Liu Jingsu (劉景素)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passages 6, 53
Relation Consulted · Person Wang Jian (王儉)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 19, passage 164

Assessment could hold stillness within; ended in name and rank · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Yao Cha (姚察)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 284
Assessment foreknowing, enabling final high rank and gifts · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Yao Cha (姚察)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 285
Assessment has genuine talent / intent in verse · Assessor Person Id Wang Jian (王儉) · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Wang Jian (王儉)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 43, passage 188
Assessment stern unmatched censor · Mode named-person-judgment Speaker Xiao Luan (蕭鸞)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 97
Assessment talent spent in old age · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 104

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 138, passage 357
Addressed his sons and younger kinsmen (子弟) about knowing when to stop
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 297