Sui and Tang · Official

Yang Yan 楊嚴

Yáng Yán

First attested AD 859; died AD 874 to AD 879

Passages: 10
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Yang Yan was an official.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Linzhi	凜之	Lǐnzhī

Life and dates

Death

AD 874 to AD 879 乾符中
Died
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 135

Attested activity

AD 874 to AD 879 乾符中
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 184, passages 110, 135
AD 859 to AD 873 唐懿宗時
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 35, passage 30

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Yang Shou (楊收)
father 父 · paternal line
Strongly inferred · New History of the Five Dynasties 35, passages 29-30
Parent of Yang She (楊涉)
father 父 · paternal line
son 子
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 35, passage 30; New Book of Tang 184, passage 136
Parent of Yang Zhu (楊註)
son 子
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 136
Sibling of Yang Shou (楊收)
younger brother 弟 · Uncertain siblings
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passages 110, 112

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Judge under the Surveillance Commissioner 觀察使判官
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 83
Surveillance Commissioner of Zhedong 浙東觀察使
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 133
Prefect of Shaozhou 邵州刺史
Dismissed to
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 134
Revenue Case Judge 判度支
Held concurrently
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 135
Vice Minister of War 兵部侍郎
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 135; New History of the Five Dynasties 35, passage 30
Hanlin Academician 翰林學士
Promoted
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 132

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Vice Minister of Works 工部侍郎
Promoted
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 132
Investigating Censor 監察御史
Recalled
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 85
Recorder 掌書記
Recommended
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 82
Tutor to the Prince of Ji 吉王傅
Transferred
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 134
Pardoned
Authority Emperor Yizong (懿宗)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 114

Learning and skills

Accepted by special edict
Credential Presented Scholar 進士
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 131
Earned
Credential Presented Scholar 進士
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 130

References in the histories

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History

10 passages

New Book of Tang, Chapter 184Volume 184 Biographies 109: Ma, Yang, Lu, Lu · 9 passages

始，周墀罷宰相，節度東川，表其弟嚴掌書記。 Earlier, when Zhou Chi left the chief ministership to govern Dongchuan, he recommended his younger brother Yan as recorder.

俄而墀卒，悰辟為觀察使判官，兄弟並在幕府。 Soon Chi died; Cong took Yan on as judge under the surveillance commissioner, and the brothers served together on the same staff.

以詳禮學改太常博士，而嚴亦自揚州召為監察禦使。 For his mastery of ritual studies he was made Erudite of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices, while Yan was also recalled from Yangzhou as investigating censor.

今獨一弟嚴以奉先人之祀，使者能假須臾使秉筆乎？」 Now only my younger brother Yan carries on sacrifice to our forebears—can the envoy grant me a moment to write?"

收自作書謝天子，丐弟嚴死，奉先臣後。 Shou himself wrote thanking the emperor, begging that his younger brother Yan be spared so that he could continue the ancestral sacrifices of their late father.

帝見書惻然，乃宥嚴，坐收流死者十一人。 The emperor, moved by the letter, pardoned Yan; eleven men were punished with exile on Shou's account.

嚴，字凜之，舉進士。 Yan, courtesy name Linzhi, passed the jinshi examination.

時王起選士三十人，而楊知至、竇緘、源重、鄭樸及嚴五人皆世胄，起以聞，詔獨收嚴。 Wang Qi then selected thirty candidates; Yang Zhizhi, Dou Jian, Yuan Chong, Zheng Pu, and Yan—five men from eminent houses—were among them; Qi reported this, and an edict ordered Yan alone accepted.

收貶，嚴亦斥為邵州刺史，徙吉王傅。 When Shou was demoted, Yan was dismissed to prefect of Shaozhou and made tutor of the Prince of Ji.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 35Volume 35 Biographies 15: Zhan Wenyu, Yang She, Zhang Ce, Zhao Guangfeng, Xue Yiju, Su Xun · 1 passage

父嚴，官至兵部侍郎。 his father Yan rose to Vice Minister of War.