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无骨论点补充(以及辨析)一

Ivar the Boneless' commentary and analysis I

Shiji 史记 · 251 BC · 秦昭襄王五十六年


Introduction

Ivar the Boneless' commentary on the year: Zhao's victory over Yan and Lian Po's enfeoffment, with an analysis of the spelling of Yue Jian's name in the editions of the Shiji.


Text and Translation

Text: Chinese source

Text: English Translation

Annotations

[§6] 无骨论点补充(以及辨析)一

[§6] Ivar the Boneless' commentary and analysis I

赵军杀栗腹,虏卿秦,燕昌国君乐间(乐毅之子)奔赵。

The Zhao army killed Li Fu and captured Qing Qin; Yan's Lord Changguo, Yue Jian (the son of Yue Yi), fled to Zhao.

赵封廉颇为信平君、守相。

Zhao enfeoffed Lian Po as Lord Xinping and made him Acting Chancellor.

辨析:

Analysis:

乐间,今本《史記·趙世家》作樂閒(簡體:乐闲),宋本《史記·趙世家》有作樂間,有作樂閒,不詳。又,前文有燕昌國君樂閒,三種宋刻本皆為閒。故,閒的可能性更大。

乐间: the current text of the Shiji, Hereditary House of Zhao, writes 樂閒 (simplified 乐闲); the Song editions of the Hereditary House of Zhao write now 樂間, now 樂閒, and it cannot be settled. Further, the earlier passage has 燕昌國君樂閒 for Yan's Lord Changguo, and all three Song block-print editions there have 閒. Hence 閒 is the more likely.

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Terms

Acting Chancellor / 守相n. the office of Chancellor held provisionally (守); the Biography of Lian Po writes 假相国.

Persons

Li Fu 栗腹Chancellor of Yan (the Suoyin: a surname and personal name; the Chancellor of Yan).
Qing Qin 卿秦A Yan general (the Suoyin: a surname and personal name; or else 卿 is an office and 秦 the name). The Zhanguoce writes 爰秦, Yuan being the surname (Suoyin), or 庆秦 (Zhengyi).
Yue Jian 乐闲Lord Changguo 昌国君 of Yan, son of Yue Yi 乐毅, whose title he held; went over to Zhao in 251 BC. Written 乐闲 or 乐间.
Yue Yi 乐毅General of Yan, enfeoffed as Lord Changguo 昌国君; father of Yue Jian.
Lian Po 廉颇General of Zhao, Chancellor of State; enfeoffed as Lord Xinping 信平君 in 251 BC (the Zhengyi: a title, "steadfast in good faith and peaceable").

Places

Zhao 赵the state of Zhao, with its capital at Handan, Hebei; one of the three states formed from Jin.
Yan 燕the state of Yan, with its capital at Ji (modern Beijing).