Qin and Han · Western Han Cruel Official

Yan Nian 延年

Attested BC 73 - BC 49

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yan Nian was a Western Han Cruel Official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 73 to BC 49 BC 73-49
Dated from the passage context · Book of Later Han 85, passage 9

Assessments and attributes

Assessment known as the butcher's broker · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 9

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 85, passage 9

References in the histories

Book of Later Han, Chapter 85Volume 77: Biographies of Cruel Officials · 1 passage

致温舒有虎冠之吏，延年受屠伯之名，岂虚也哉！ So it was that Wang Wenshu produced underlings called “tiger-hatted” enforcers, and Yan Nian won the nickname “the butcher’s broker”—and those reputations were no idle tales.