Song, Liao, and Jin · Official and Hermit

Yelü Guannu 耶律官奴

First attested AD 1040; died AD 1101 to AD 1110

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Yelü Guannu was an official and Hermit.

IdentityHistorical · Male

Other names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Courtesy name Xiyin 奚隱
Epithet Two Recluses 二逸

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9 passages

History of Liao, Chapter 106Volume 106 Biographies 36: Outstanding Conduct · 9 passages
若劄剌謝職不談時務,官奴兩辭節鎮,蒲離不召而不赴,雖未足謂之隱,然在當時能知內外之分,甘於肥遁,不猶愈於求富貴利達而為妻妾羞者哉? Zhalaci resigned his post and would not discuss current affairs; Guannu twice declined regional commands; Pulibu was summoned but did not go — though these do not fully qualify as reclusion, in their own day they knew the boundary between public duty and private life and were content to withdraw from the world. Are they not still preferable to those who scrambled for wealth, rank, and advancement and brought shame upon their households?