Yì er zhuàn (English: Yì er zhuàn)

Japanese: 義児伝 - ぎじでん（英語表記）Yì ér zhuàn

A biography compiled in Volume 36 of the Records of the Five Dynasties by Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty in China. With the collapse of the aristocratic system that placed great importance on lineage in China, adoptive father-son relationships between people of different surnames were common for political and military purposes. In particular, military commanders adopted many capable soldiers as their own guards (provisional sons, adopted sons), a practice that began around the Sui dynasty and flourished from the mid-Tang to the Five Dynasties. The Biography of the Adoptive Sons includes eight military commanders out of nine notable adopted sons of the Later Tang Emperor Li Keyong (Taizong), excluding Li Siyuan (Mingzong of the Later Tang), who ascended to the throne, and depicts the trend of the time when "arose from the sect of two clans, and the two clans came together to become father and son" (Preface to the Biography of the Adoptive Sons).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国，宋の欧陽修《五代史記》巻三十六に立てられた列伝。中国では家系を重んずる貴族制の崩壊に伴い，政治的軍事的意図から異姓間に養父子関係を結ぶことが行われた。とくに武将が有能な軍士を多数養子(仮子，義児)として親衛隊(義児軍)を置くことが隋代ごろから見られ，唐中期～五代に盛行した。〈義児伝〉は後唐李克用(太祖)の著名な義児9人中，帝位に就いた李嗣源(後唐明宗)を除く8人の武将を収めたもので，これによって〈干戈骨肉より起こり，異類合して父子と為（な）〉(〈義児伝〉序)った当時の風潮をえがく。

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