12 Facts About Yan Ying

Yan Ying is traditionally credited with the Warring States text Yanzi Chunqiu, the Annals of Master Yan.

Yan Ying is written as in traditional Chinese characters and as in modern simplified ones.

Yan Ying was born around the year 578BC in what is Gaomi, Shandong, in China.

Yan Ying was the son of Yan Ruo, a Qi minister of state, and succeeded to his father's post in 556BC on his father's death.

Yan Ying was said to be short of stature and very ugly but an able debater with a nimble mind.

When Yan Ying was mortally ill around the year 500BC, he had a letter sealed in a hole drilled in a pillar of his home, which he told his wife to ensure his son would read once he had grown.

Yan Ying took off his hat and started to beat his chest and stomp his feet while approaching the Duke's body.

Yan Ying never complied, but Cui Zhu was unable to kill him because of the opinion of the people.

Yan Ying tried to bribe Yan Ying with lordship over more than 60 households in Beidian but Yanzi refused.

Yan Ying saw through this and immediately asked a servant to replace the Duke's cup.

Yan Ying went to the Duke's court and suggested that Zhu Zou committed three crimes and that he would like to recite them to Zhu face-to-face so that he understood in what ways he broke the law and for what reasons he was going to die.

The affair of Yan Ying "killing three warriors with two peaches" comes from the Yanzi Annals.