Yan Fei

In this Chinese name, the family name is Yan.
Yan Fei
Traditional Chinese顏斐
Simplified Chinese颜斐
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYán Fěi
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingNgaan4 Fei2
Courtesy name
Chinese文林
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWén Lín
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingMan4 Lam4

Yan Fei (simplified Chinese: 颜斐; traditional Chinese: 顏斐), courtesy name Wenlin (Chinese: 文林),[1] was a Grand Administrator of Jingzhao during the Three Kingdoms period.

Yan Fei was from Jibei.[2] When Cao Pi was the presumptive heir to the Cao Wei throne, Yan was one of his attendants.[2] After Cao became the emperor, Yan was appointed a Gentleman-in-Attendance of the Yellow Gates [zh], an official who served at the palace.[2] After Jingzhao experienced a civil war and was conquered by the general Ma Chao, Yan "restored good and popular government" upon becoming the region's grand administrator.[2][3] People at the time largely had little experience in farming.[4] Yan encouraged his people to do urban agriculture work, suggesting that they use their leisurely time to farm.[3] At his home, Yan started vegetable plots.[3] Observing that the citizenry were in the predicament of lacking carts and cattle, he urged them to make carts, sell pigs and dogs, and buy cattle.[4] Within two years, nearly all households had carts and cattle.[5] According to the Chinese historical text Weilüe, under Yan's leadership, Jingzhao became the best of Yongzhou's ten prefectures.[6]

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References

  1. ^ Yu, Songnian (1840). Yi jia tang cong shu. Vol. 2. Retrieved 2022-03-18 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b c d de Crespigny, Rafe (2007). A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD). Leiden: Brill Publishers. p. 933. ISBN 978-90-04-15605-0. Retrieved 2022-03-18 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b c Tang, Yan; Guo, Lei-Xian (2016). "Farming space in ancient Chinese cities: Harmonious urban development shaped by agricultural civilization and rural relations". In Liu, Yuan-Ming; Fu, Dong; Tong, Zhen-Xin; Bao, Zhi-Qing; Tang, Bin (eds.). Civil Engineering and Urban Planning IV: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Urban Planning, Beijing, China, 25-27 July 2015. London: Taylor & Francis. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-138-02903-3. Retrieved 2022-03-18 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ a b 王明前 (December 2011). 张明海 (ed.). "三国两晋十六国南北土地制度的分与合" [The division and integration of the land systems in the north and south of the Three Kingdoms, the Jin dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms] (PDF). Journal of Henan Business College (in Chinese). 24 (6). Henan University: 69. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1008-3928.2011.06.018. ISSN 1008-3928. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-18. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
  5. ^ 陶元珍 (1989). 三國食貨志 [Three Kingdoms Food and Goods] (in Chinese). Taipei: The Commercial Press [zh]. ISBN 957-05-0054-9. Retrieved 2022-03-18 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ 萬繩楠 (2002). 魏晉南北朝史論稿 [On the History of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties] (in Chinese). Taipei: 雲龍出版社. p. 33. ISBN 986-7938-02-X. Retrieved 2022-03-18 – via Google Books.

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