# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yao-silian
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:40:40.861Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yao-silian"
name: "Yao Silian"
slug: "yao-silian"
description: "Yao Silian, courtesy name Jianzhi (簡之),, formally the Baron of Fengcheng (豐城縣男), posthumous name Kang (康), was a Chinese historian and politician during the Sui dynasty and Tang dynasty. He was the lead author of the Book of Liang and Book of Chen, the official histories of the Liang dynasty and the Chen dynasty, which his father Yao Cha (姚察), a Chen official, had begun but did not finish."
tagline: "Chinese politician and historian (564–637)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E5%A7%9A%E6%80%9D%E5%BB%89.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "557"
deathDate: "637"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.52
  momentum:             14.5
  historical:           9.21296
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A7%9A%E6%80%9D%E5%BB%89"
    title: "姚思廉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ياو سيليان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_Silian"
    title: "Yao Silian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_Silian"
    title: "Yao Silian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_Silian"
    title: "Yao Silian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A7%9A%E6%80%9D%E5%BB%89"
    title: "姚思廉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%99%E1%9F%89%E1%9F%84%E1%9E%9C%E1%9E%9F%E1%9F%8A%E1%9E%BA%E1%9E%9B%E1%9F%80%E1%9E%93"
    title: "យ៉ោវស៊ឺលៀន"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_Silian"
    title: "Yao Silian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_Silian"
    title: "Yao Silian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jao_Silian"
    title: "Jao Silian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di%C3%AAu_T%C6%B0_Li%C3%AAm"
    title: "Diêu Tư Liêm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1275756"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump