Yan Honglu (閻宏魯) | 24 Histories

Overview

Yan Honglu was an official.

PeriodFive Dynasties

IdentityHistorical · Male

Roles

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Life and dates

Death

flogged to death 笞…肉爛而死
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 53, passage 93
killed by Murong Yanchao 罹其禍 · With Murong Yanchao (慕容彥超)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 130, passages 154-155

Attested activity

AD 926 to AD 942 事唐明宗、晉高祖
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 130, passage 151
AD 951 慕容彥超初臨
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 130, passage 152
AD 952 閻弘魯
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 53, passages 87, 103

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Yan Bao (閻寶)
father 父
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 130, passage 149
Parent of Yan Xijun (閻希俊)
son 子
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 130, passage 153
Spouse of Wife of Yan Honglu (閻弘魯之妻)
wife 妻
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 53, passages 91, 93

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Career and standing

former Shanzhou vice prefect / Sima 前陜州司馬
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 53, passage 87
general of the Left Brave Guard 左驍衛大將軍
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 53, passage 103
General of the Left Brave Guards 左驍衛大將軍
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 130, passage 161

Places and affiliations

At central Lu 魯中
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 130, passage 152

Events and relationships

Killed on accusation
Political · Victim · With Murong Yanchao (慕容彥超)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 130, passages 154-155

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History

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 130Volume 130 Book of Later Zhou 32: Biographies 10: Wang Jun, Murong Yanchao, Yan Honglu, Cui Zhoudu · 5 passages

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閻宏魯者，後唐邢州節度使寶之子也。 Yan Honglu was the son of Yan Bao, military governor of Xing Prefecture under Later Tang.

宏魯事唐明宗、晉高祖，累歷事任。 Honglu served under Emperor Mingzong of Tang and the Jin founder, rising through a series of offices.

聞朝廷出兵堤防，即責宏魯曰：「爾教兒捍我於朝，將覆吾族耶！」 Hearing that the court was sending troops, he at once rebuked Honglu: "You taught your son to oppose me at court—do you mean to destroy my whole clan?"

太祖平兗州，詔曰：「閻宏魯、崔周度，死義之臣，禮加二等，所以滲漏澤而賁黃泉也。 When the founder pacified Yan Prefecture, an edict said, "Yan Honglu and Cui Zhoudu died for righteousness. Their rites shall be raised two grades, that seeping favor may reach them even in the yellow springs.

宏魯可贈左驍衛大將軍，周度可贈秘書少監。」 Honglu shall be posthumously made General of the Left Brave Guards; Zhoudu shall be posthumously made Vice Director of the Secretariat."

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 53Volume 53 Miscellaneous Biographies 33: Wang Jinchong, Zhao Suwan, Murong Yanchao · 8 passages

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已而見圍，因大括城中民貲以犒軍，前陜州司馬閻弘魯懼其鞭撲，乃悉家貲以獻。 When the siege closed in, he extorted the city's wealth to pay his troops. Former Shanzhou vice prefect Yan Honglu, dreading the whip, surrendered his entire estate.

彥超以為未盡，又欲並罪周度，乃令周度監括弘魯家。 Yanchao thought the sum insufficient and wished to punish Zhoudu as well, so he set Zhoudu to oversee the search of Honglu's house.

周度謂弘魯曰：「公命之死生，系財之多少，願無隱也。」 Zhoudu told Honglu: "Your life hangs on how much wealth you reveal—hide nothing."

弘魯遣家僮與周度屬刂掘搜索無所得。 Honglu sent his servants to dig with Zhoudu through every corner of the house, but nothing turned up.