| NAME | |
|---|---|
| Chinese Name | 陆晏, 陸晏, Lù Yàn |
| Nickname | General Who Pacifies the Distant (裨安将军) |
| Other name | Lục Yến |
| Courtesy name | Shibo (士伯, Sĩ Bá) |
| INFORMATION | |
| Birth Place | Wu Commandery (吴郡华亭; quận Ngô Hoa Đình) |
| Died | 280 AD |
| Death Reason | Killed in battle defending Jiangling against Jin forces (280 AD) |
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| CAREER | |
| Allegiance | Eastern Wu |
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Biography & Historical Record
Lu Yan (陆晏, Lục Yến), courtesy name Shibo (士伯, Sĩ Bá), was the eldest son of Grand Marshal Lu Kang (陆抗, Lục Kháng) and grandson of Lu Xun (陆逊, Lục Tuẫn), the architect of Wu’s greatest victory at Xiaoting. He held the rank of General Who Pacifies the Distant (裨安将军) and commanded naval forces on the middle Yangtze from Jiangling. When the Jin conquest of Wu opened in 280 AD, the combined fleets of Wang Jun (王濬, Vương Tận) and the land columns under Du Yu (杜预, Đỗ Dự) encircled Jiangling. Lu Yan fought aboard his warship until overwhelmed and was killed in action on the same day as his brother Lu Jing (陆景, Lục Cảnh) — one of the Lu clan’s martyrs in Wu’s last stand.
Role in Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Jin conquest arc (late chapters): The novel’s closing Wu collapse follows the historical 280 campaign — Jin fleets descend the Yangtze and Wu river forts fall. Lu Kang’s sons at Jiangling belong to that catastrophe even when individual names are compressed; Lu Yan (陆晏, Lục Yến) is the eldest Lu son who dies on the waterline with Lu Jing in the same day’s fighting.
Lu Yan (陆晏) — Historical & Literary Timeline
Lu clan service
Son of Lu Kang; trained in the Lu-Xun military-administrative tradition on the Jing frontier.
Jiangling naval command
General Who Pacifies the Distant; defended the middle Yangtze for Wu.
Death at Jiangling
Killed fighting Jin forces the same day as Lu Jing during the fall of Wu.
Context: Lu Kang on Wikipedia; Jin conquest of Wu 280.
Key Relationships
Family
- Father Lu Kang (陆抗, Lục Kháng), courtesy Youjie (幼节, Ấu Tiết): Wu’s last great frontier marshal; died 274.
- Grandfather Lu Xun (陆逊, Lục Tuẫn): victor of Xiaoting, former Wu chancellor.
- Brothers Lu Jing (陆景, Lục Cảnh), Lu Ji (陆机, Lục Cơ), and Lu Yun (陆云, Lục Vân): Lu Jing fell the same day; Lu Ji and Lu Yun became Jin-era literary figures.
- Mother: Lady Zhang (张夫人) in Lu clan tables — no dedicated post; plain text only.
Friends
- Wu river officers under Lu Kang’s Jing command — shared defense of the middle Yangtze before 280.
- Lu Jing (陆景, Lục Cảnh): elder brother in some orderings / co-defender killed alongside him at Jiangling.
Enemies
- Wang Jun (王濬, Vương Tận): Jin admiral whose fleet broke Jiangling’s river defenses.
- Du Yu (杜预, Đỗ Dự): Jin commander coordinating the land encirclement of Jing province.
Other
- Last Wu emperor Sun Hao (孙皓, Tôn Hạo): reign during the 280 collapse — Lu Yan died defending his realm’s key river fort.
- Lu Xun (陆逊, Lục Tuẫn): literary and historical shadow over all Lu sons at Jiangling.
In Novel
Late chapters — Jin invasion of Wu
- Lu Yan (陆晏, Lục Yến): Appears in the historical layer of the novel's Wu-ending arc as a Lu Kang son who commands on the Yangtze at Jiangling. When Wang Jun (王濬, Vương Tận) and Du Yu (杜预, Đỗ Dự) close the ring in 280 AD, Lu Yan fights from his warship until killed the same day as Lu Jing (陆景, Lục Cảnh) — martyrdom in Wu's final river war, not a long earlier campaign thread.
In History
Summary
- Lu Yan (陆晏, Lục Yến), styled Shibo, eldest son of Lu Kang; General Who Pacifies the Distant; killed at Jiangling 280 AD fighting Jin.
Year: 280 AD
- Jin invasion: Wang Jun's fleet and Du Yu's armies take Jing; Lu Yan killed in naval defense at Jiangling, same day as Lu Jing.
Historical Record
- Sanguozhi and Jin-Wu war notices; Lu Kang family biographies in Pei Songzhi.
- 280 AD conquest narratives in Jin shu and later compendia on the fall of Wu.
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