Nán Yàn Shū 南燕書
Book of Southern Yan by 張詮
About the work
Nán Yàn Shū 南燕書 (also titled Zhāng Quán Nán Yàn Shū 張詮南燕書) is a jíyìběn reconstruction of a history of the Nán Yàn 南燕 (Southern Yàn) state (398–410 CE), the last and southernmost of the Mùróng regimes. Zhāng Quán 張詮 was an official who served the Nán Yàn court. The surviving fragments are very few.
Tiyao
No tiyao found in source. This is a jíyìběn reconstruction.
Abstract
Nán Yàn was founded by Mùróng Dé 慕容德, who seized control of the Shāndōng peninsula after the collapse of Hòu Yàn. It was the smallest and shortest-lived of the Mùróng Yàn states, lasting only twelve years before its conquest by the Eastern Jin general Liú Yù 劉裕 (the future Emperor Wǔ of Sòng 宋武帝) in 410 CE. Zhāng Quán’s Nán Yàn Shū is recorded in the Suí Shū 隋書 bibliography in 5 juǎn. The surviving fragments, recovered from Táng-Sòng citations, are very brief — a handful of lines on the Mùróng court in exile. The text was lost after the Táng.
Translations and research
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