Wēn Dàyǎ 溫大雅
Early-Táng founding-court official, historian, and litterateur. Zì Yànchǒng 彥寵. Native of Qí 祁 in Bīngzhōu 幷州 (modern Tàiyuán 太原, Shānxī). Eldest of three influential Wēn brothers — Dàyǎ, Dàlín 大臨 (zì Yànbó 彥博), and Dàyǒu 大有 (zì Yànjiāng 彥將) — collectively known as the Wēn shì sān yàn 溫氏三彥, all jointly summoned to Lǐ Yuān’s 李淵 staff at Tàiyuán in 617.
Career: under the Suí, Tàicháng chéng 太常丞, then withdrew on his father’s death. When Lǐ Yuān raised the Tàiyuán uprising in 617 he was summoned as Dà jiàngjūn fǔ jìshì cānjūn 大將軍府記室參軍 — Lǐ Yuān’s chief drafter of military despatches and proclamations during the seven-month Tài-yuán-to-Cháng-ān campaign. Under Tángdì Lǐ Yuān (Gāozǔ) he rose to Huángmén shìláng 黃門侍郎 and (after Xuánwǔmén in 626) to Lǐbù shàngshū 禮部尚書, and was enfeoffed as Líguó gōng 黎國公; died 629 (Zhēnguān 3). Biographies in Jiù Táng shū 61 and Xīn Táng shū 91. CBDB id 150721.
His major surviving work is the Dà Táng chuàngyè qǐjūzhù 大唐創業起居注 (KR2b0006) in 3 juǎn, the only surviving Táng-period qǐjūzhù (court diary) and a contemporaneous documentary record of the 357-day Táng founding campaign of 617–618. Composed from his own drafting notes, it is a primary source for the Táng founding independent of (and in places contradicting) the later Gāozǔ shílù and dynastic histories — most notably in giving Lǐ Yuān, not Lǐ Shìmín, the dominant role in initiating the rebellion against the Suí.