Yang Jian 楊暕

Other names

Family

• Child of Empress Xiao (蕭皇后)
  bore 生
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 264
• Spouse of Lady Wei, consort of Yang Jian (暕妃韋氏)
  consort 妃 · Primary marriage
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 222
• Parent of Daughter of Yang Jian and his consort's elder sister (一女)
  daughter 一女
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 222
• Child of Emperor Yang of Sui (隋煬帝)
  prince 王 · Uncertain parentage
  son 三男
  Sources vary in certainty · Book of Sui 5, passage 37; Book of Sui 59, passage 264

• Kinship Role sons · Count 2 · Event both killed
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 242

Career and standing

• Commander-in-Chief of Yangzhou and military affairs south of the Huai 揚州總管沿淮以南諸軍事
  AD 601 to AD 604 仁壽中 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 198
• Kaifu Yitong Sansi 開府儀同三司
  AD 607 明年 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 204
• Director of the Palace Secretariat 內史令
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 197
• Intendant of the Capital 京尹
  Held
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 230
• Governor of Yu Province 豫州牧
  AD 606 大業二年 · Transferred
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passages 200-201
• Governor of Yong Province 雍州牧
  AD 607 明年 · Transferred
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 204

Places and affiliations

• Polity Sui · Relation Associated with
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 59, passages 239, 242

Learning and skills

• Subject classics and histories 經史 · Relation Studied
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 196
• Belief heterodox magical suppression rites 左道厭勝 · Relation Practiced
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 227
• Skill mounted archery 騎射 · Level especially skilled
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 196

Works and attributed material

• Questions and plea to supposed imperial envoy · Speaker · With Emperor Yang of Sui (隋煬帝) · Mode direct-speech Speaker Yang Jian (楊暕)
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passages 239-241

Events and relationships

• Entered the Fenyang Palace hunting enclosure with 1,000 horsemen and took many elk and deer
  Hunt
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passages 216-217
• Experienced unexplained bleeding and saw headless rats shortly before his death
  Omens
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passages 234-236
• AD 606 大業二年
  Ceremonial military · Military vanguard · At Eastern Capital 東都
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 200
• Military · Commander of rear army · Force 50,000 infantry and cavalry · At Yulin 榆林
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 215
• Relation Favored by · Person Emperor Wen of Sui (隋文帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 194
• Relation Sexual partner of · Person Elder sister of Yang Jian's consort (妃姊元氏婦) · Union Type Extramarital relationship
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 222

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment arrogant, willful, intimate with petty men, and often unlawful · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 206
• Assessment Emperor Yang feared he might rebel and staffed him only with old and weak attendants · Mode historian-report Source Person Id Emperor Yang of Sui (隋煬帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 232
• Assessment handsome, with well-spaced brows and eyes · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 194
• Item residence in the Eastern Capital 東都第 · Relation Built; gate and beam collapsed as omens
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 59, passage 214