严颜 / Yan Yan (Late Han)

Overview

严颜 / Yan Yan enters the current wiki evidence as a Ba commandery official who warns that 刘璋 is inviting a stronger potential rival into 益州 by relying on 刘备 for defense.

Current Profile

Hanji 1125 gives Yan Yan one compact but strategically important intervention. As Liu Zhang supplies and welcomes Liu Bei, Yan Yan compares the arrangement to sitting alone in an isolated mountain and releasing a tiger for protection. The warning identifies the danger before open war: an external protector with its own troops, leadership, and political appeal can convert delegated access into an independent base.

Key Characteristics

• Yizhou official associated in the episode with Ba commandery.
• Recognizes the protector-to-rival risk in Liu Zhang’s invitation to Liu Bei.
• Supplies an early internal warning before Liu Bei’s local position has fully developed.

Evidence

• Strategic warning: Hanji 1125 attributes “独坐穷山，放虎自卫” to Yan Yan as Liu Bei enters Yizhou.

Qualifications

This source does not provide a full biography, the administrative context of Yan Yan’s office, or his later service and capture. The wording, chronology, and the episode’s interpretation of the warning require direct textual corroboration.

What Changed

• Created from Hanji 1125’s warning about inviting Liu Bei into Yizhou.

Relationships

• 刘璋 - ruler whose external-defense arrangement Yan Yan warns against.
• 刘备 - invited commander whom the warning treats as a potential rival.
• 益州 - province exposed by the delegation of military access.
• 受托资源反向转移 - mechanism named by Yan Yan’s tiger metaphor.