釋氏稽古略 2.45

2.45

慕容廆（戶賄反）昌黎鮮卑人。世受晉封號。東晉元帝大興二年廆都督東夷置僚屬。晉成帝咸和八年慕容皝（胡廣反）立。至丁酉年皝稱王。皝雅好文學。親臨庠序。講授考校。晉穆帝永和四年十一月皝卒。世子雋即位。遣使詣建康告喪。晉帝詔遣謁者陳光拜雋為燕王。雋以戊申歲稱元年。壬子年雋滅石趙。十一月雋即皇帝位。稱元璽元年。丁巳年雋遷都鄴（彰德路古相州冀域）即石虎之都也。改元光壽。庚申年正月昭帝雋卒。大司馬慕容恪受遺詔。輔太子暐即位。改元建熙。暐曰幽帝是也。己巳建熙十年燕太傅上容王慕容評忌吳王慕容垂威名。又與評廷爭怨隙。太后可足渾氏與評密謀誅垂。垂與子弟姪俱奔秦。秦王符堅大喜郊迎。乃以垂為冠軍將軍封賓從侯。初晉攻燕。燕求救於秦。許割虎牢以西賂秦。晉兵既退。燕人悔之。秦主堅大怒。帥兵伐燕。十二月進攻洛陽。建熙十一年正月。燕荊州刺史武威王筑。以洛陽降秦。六月再伐燕。燕敗。十一月秦主堅入鄴。燕主暐出降。十二月秦主堅遷慕容暐及燕后妃王公百官於長安。封暐為新興侯。其餘封授各有差。廆起自晉惠帝太安二年癸亥。終東晉廢帝太和五年庚午。四主合六十八年。

Murong Hui (pronounced hu-hui) was a Xianbei from Changli. For generations his line had received Jin titles. In the second year of the Daxing era under Emperor Yuan of Eastern Jin, Hui, as Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Barbarians, set up staff officers. In the eighth year of the Xianhe era under Emperor Cheng of Jin, Murong Huang (pronounced hu-guang) took the throne, and by the dingyou year Huang styled himself King. Huang was deeply fond of classical letters; he personally visited schools to lecture and conduct examinations. In the eleventh month of the fourth year of the Yonghe era under Emperor Mu of Jin, Huang died. The heir apparent Jun ascended the throne and sent envoys to Jiankang to report the bereavement. The Jin emperor issued an edict dispatching the ceremonial usher Chen Guang to invest Jun as King of Yan. Jun made the wushen year his first year. In the renzi year, Jun extinguished the Shi clan's Zhao. In the eleventh month, Jun ascended the imperial throne and proclaimed the first year of Yuanxi. In the dingsi year, Jun moved the capital to Ye (ancient Xiang Prefecture of Ji territory, in Zhangde Circuit), which was Shi Hu's capital, and changed the reign era to Guangshou. In the first month of the gengshen year, Emperor Zhaodi, Jun, died. Murong Ke, the Grand Marshal, received the testament edict to assist Crown Prince Wei in ascending the throne, changing the reign era to Jianxi; this was Emperor You. In the tenth year of Jianxi, jisi, Murong Ping, Grand Tutor of Yan and King of Shangrong, grew jealous of the prestige and fame of Murong Chui, King of Wu; moreover, he had quarreled with Ping in open court, creating grudges. Empress Dowager Kezuhun and Ping secretly conspired to execute Chui; Chui fled to Qin with his sons, younger brothers, and nephews. Fu Jian, King of Qin, was overjoyed and went to the suburbs to welcome them; he appointed Chui as General of the Champion Army and enfeoffed him as Marquis Bincong. Earlier, when Jin attacked Yan, Yan sought rescue from Qin, promising to cede the territory west of Hulao as a gift to Qin. After the Jin troops retreated, the Yan people regretted it. Sovereign Jian of Qin was furious and led troops to attack Yan, advancing to attack Luoyang in the twelfth month. In the first month of the eleventh year of Jianxi, King of Wuwei Zhu, the inspector of Jing Prefecture for Yan, surrendered Luoyang to Qin. In the sixth month, Qin attacked Yan again; Yan was defeated. In the eleventh month, Sovereign Jian of Qin entered Ye, and the Yan ruler Wei came out to surrender. In the twelfth month, Sovereign Jian of Qin relocated Murong Wei, along with the Yan empresses, consorts, kings, lords, and hundred civil officials, to Chang'an, enfeoffing Wei as Marquis of Xinxing; the rest were enfeoffed and appointed with various distinctions. From its rise under Hui in the second year of Tai'an under Emperor Hui of Jin, the guihai year, to its end in the fifth year of Taihe under the Deposed Emperor of Eastern Jin, the gengwu year, Yan comprised four rulers over sixty-eight years in total.