Song, Liao, and Jin · Rebel and General

Zhe Xiyan 折希顏

Zhé Xīyán

Attested AD 1233 - AD 1234

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhe Xiyan was a rebel and General.

Life and dates

Death

Beheaded · At outside Liang Gate 梁門外
Directly stated · History of Jin 115, passage 134

Attested activity

AD 1234 天興三年六月
Dated from the passage context · History of Jin 115, passages 125, 134
AD 1233 天興二年
Dated from the passage context · History of Jin 115, passage 93

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Spouse of Sister of Cui Li (崔立之妹)
husband 婿
Strongly inferred · History of Jin 115, passage 116
Kin of Cui Li (崔立)
sister's husband 妹婿
Directly stated · History of Jin 115, passage 116

Events and relationships

Relation Partisan of · Person Cui Li (崔立)
Directly stated · History of Jin 115, passage 93

References in the histories

History of Jin, Chapter 115Volume 115 Biographies 53: Wanyan Nushen, Cui Li, Li Qi, Nie Tianji, Chizhan Weixin · 5 passages

其党孛術魯長哥御史中丞，韓鐸都元帥兼知開封府事，折希顏、藥安國、張軍奴並元帥，師肅左右司郎中，賈良兵部郎中兼右司都事，內府之事皆主之。 His followers received offices: Boshulu Changge became censor-in-chief; Han Duo overall marshal and concurrent prefect of Kaifeng; Zhe Xiyan, Yao Anguo, and Zhang Junnu all marshals; Shi Su left and right bureau director; Jia Liang bureau director of war and concurrent right bureau director. They controlled all inner palace affairs.

李琦者，山西人，為都尉，在陳州與粘哥奴申同行省事，陳州變，入京，附崔立妹婿折希顏，娶夾谷元之妻，妻年二十余，有姿色，立初拘隨駕官之家屬，妻輿病而往，得免。 Li Qi was from Shanxi and served as a commandant. At Chen Prefecture he worked with Zhange Nushen as acting branch secretariat director. When Chen mutinied he fled to the capital and attached himself to Cui Li's brother-in-law Zhe Xiyan. He married the wife of Jiagu Yuan, a woman of more than twenty renowned for her beauty. When Cui Li first detained the families of officials who had accompanied the emperor, she went in a litter feigning illness and was spared.

琦又數為折希顏所折辱，乃首建殺立之謀。 Qi had also been repeatedly humiliated by Zhe Xiyan and was the first to propose killing Cui Li.

比明，伯淵等身來約立視火，立從苑秀、折希顏數騎往，諭京城民十五以上、七十以下男子皆詣太廟街點集。 At dawn Boyuan and the others came in person to invite Cui Li to inspect the fire. Cui Li went with Yuan Xiu, Zhe Xiyan, and several horsemen and ordered all men in the capital aged fifteen to seventy to assemble on Taimiao Street for roll call.

折希顏後至不知，見立墜馬，謂與人鬥，欲前解之，隨為軍士所斫，被創走梁門外，追斬之。 Zhe Xiyan arrived later unaware of the plot. Seeing Cui Li fall from his horse, he thought he was fighting someone and tried to intervene. Soldiers hacked him down. Wounded, he fled outside the Liang Gate and was pursued and beheaded.