Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · General and Duke; Xianbei by origin

Yi Louqian 伊婁謙

Attested AD 557 - AD 618

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Overview

Yi Louqian was a general and Duke; Xianbei by origin.

IdentityHistorical · Male
Found inBook of Sui

Other names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Courtesy name Yangong 彥恭

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  • Petition · Author · With Gao Zun (高遵) · Mode historian-judgment
    Directly stated · Book of Sui 54, passage 257
  • (prostrated himself and begged pardon for Zun)
    Remark · Speaker · Mode narrator-report Speaker Yi Louqian (伊婁謙)
    Directly stated · Book of Sui 54, passage 75
  • Remark · Addressee · Mode quotation Speaker Yang Xiuzhi (陽休之)
    Directly stated · Book of Sui 54, passage 68
  • For Zun's crime, spitting in the face is not the appropriate punishment.
    Remark · Speaker · Mode quotation Speaker Yi Louqian (伊婁謙)
    Directly stated · Book of Sui 54, passage 76
  • From the time I took my post I have not heard of mobilizing armies. Even if the west again strengthened the walls of White Emperor City and the east added garrisons at Baqiu, that would be the constant reasoning of human affairs—why should it be surprising!
    Remark · Speaker · Mode quotation Speaker Yi Louqian (伊婁謙)
    Directly stated · Book of Sui 54, passages 69-70
  • Your foolish subject truly is not enough to know great affairs, but the false Qi usurps and is overbearing and insolent, drowning in actors and singers and sunk in debauchery and wine. Its general who breaks enemy ranks, Hulu Yue, is already dead; slanderers are active and superiors and subordinates are divided in heart; people on the roads narrow their eyes in fear. If Your Majesty commands the Six Armies, that is this subject's wish.
    Remark · Speaker · Mode quotation Speaker Yi Louqian (伊婁謙)
    Directly stated · Book of Sui 54, passages 63-65
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Assessments and attributes

  • far-reaching ambition and breadth of mind; did not bear old grudges; bearing of a true gentleman of the realm 志量弘遠，不念舊惡……有國士之風焉
    Assessment far-reaching ambition and breadth of mind; bearing of a true gentleman of the realm · Mode historian-judgment
    Directly stated · Book of Sui 54, passage 257
  • Assessment officials and townspeople clung to him in farewell, following for several hundred li without ceasing · Mode narrator-report
    Directly stated · Book of Sui 54, passage 86
  • in the end treated Gao Zun exactly as before; magnanimity, kindness, and forbearance were characteristic of him
    Character
    Directly stated · Book of Sui 54, passages 78-79
  • loyal and forthright by nature, skilled in eloquence and discourse
    Character
    Directly stated · Book of Sui 54, passage 59
  • frugal and self-restrained; greatly won the harmony and affection of the people
    Governance
    Directly stated · Book of Sui 54, passage 85

Source notes

  • AD 580 旣平王謙
    From Qian 謙 · To Yangong 彥恭 · Reason ashamed to share the given name Qian with the executed rebel Wang Qian after his rebellion was crushed · With Wang Qian (王謙) · Name Kind courtesy-name-adopted-in-place-of-given-name
    Directly stated · Book of Sui 54, passage 83

References in the histories

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Book of Sui, Chapter 54Volume 54 Biographies 19: Wang Zhangshu, Li Yan, Yi Louqian, Tian Rengong, Yuan Heng, Du Zheng, Li Che, Cui Peng · 16 passages
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