Yan Jiming
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Yan Jiming (顏季明; 730 – 756) was a Chinese official of the Tang dynasty. He was the son of Yan Gaoqing, who was serving as the Grand Protector of Changshan at the outbreak of the An Lushan Rebellion in 755. He was also the childhood sweetheart and husband to He Shi,[1] who became a Hidden One.[2]
In cooperation with the Hidden One Li E, Jiming and his father formed an army to resist An Lushan's forces. Jiming personally led his troops to attack Tumen Pass, occupying it after Li E assassinated three Yeluohe commanders there. He then waited for Tang reinforcements while E proceeded to Taiyuan to request them. However, both Jiming and Gaoqing were later defeated by An Lushan and sent to An's newly captured capital of Luoyang in chains, where they were summarily executed.[3]
Biography
Yan Jiming was born in 730[4] and hailed from a lineage which had been employed in the Tang government for generations.[5] By the time of his father, Yan Gaoqing, they were an established family which could relatively have been regarded as nobility.[6] Whereas his father served as Grand Protector of Changshan Commandery,[6][7] his thirteenth uncle Yan Zhenqing—more precisely his first cousin once removed[8]—was the Grand Protector of Pingyuan Commandery.[9] Apart from his family's connections, Jiming grew up playing with a girl named He Hong'er, and the two fostered romantic affections in childhood.[1]
Because Gaoqing was preoccupied with his duties in that office, Jiming attended the Flower Banquet of 754 in Chang'an in his place, accompanied by Uncle Chen. The young man found the splendid bouquets of flowers which blanketed the city on this occasion to be mesmerizingly beautiful, and he felt that it was sad for so many of these to go to waste after the festival was over. He resolved to collect batches of them that were originally meant to be thrown away and donate them to children outside Chang'an. To that end, Jiming and Uncle Chen took a flower disposal wagon as their transport out of the palace grounds.[6]
Appearances
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Assassin's Creed: Dynasty – Golden Turtles (Part 2)
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Dynasty – "The Assassin: He Shi"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Dynasty – "True History Restored"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Dynasty – "The Loyalist: Yan Jiming"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Dynasty – The Flower Banquet (Special)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Assassin's Creed: Dynasty – The Flower Banquet (Part 6)
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Dynasty – Beacon (Part 4)
- ↑ 颜真卿. Baidu Baike. Accessed 3 July 2021.
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Dynasty – Beacon (Part 5)
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