Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Envoy and Acting Regular Attendant

Yu Yan 虞炎

Yú Yán

Attested AD 481

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yu Yan was an envoy and Acting Regular Attendant.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 481 建元三年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 31

Career and standing

Acting Regular Attendant of Scattered Cavalry 兼散騎常侍
Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 31

Events and relationships

Led one of twelve missions touring the empire and reported filial exemplars
Biographical · Participant
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 31

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 55Volume 55 Biographies 36: Filial Piety · 1 passage

太祖即位，遣兼散騎常侍虞炎等十二部使行天下，建元三年，表列僧遠等二十三人，詔竝表門閭，蠲租稅。 When Emperor Gao took the throne he sent twelve missions, led by Yu Yan, Acting Regular Attendant of Scattered Cavalry, to tour the empire. In the third year of Jianyuan, memorials named Sengyuan and twenty-two others; an edict ordered commemorative placards erected at their gates and their rents and taxes remitted.