姚期 / Yao Qi (Eastern Han)

Overview

姚期 / Yao Qi is synthesized as a Guangwu-era founding commander and court warning voice whose current evidence comes from Hanji 708. The source identifies him as one of the Yuntai Twenty-Eight Generals, gives a compact loyal-and-filial military profile, and then makes his main wiki function the warning that Liu Xiu’s repeated praise of Ji Zun is frightening other officials.

Current Profile

Hanji 708 says Yao Qi is the son of Guiyang administrator Yao Meng, physically imposing, serious in appearance, and known for loyalty and filiality. After recommendation by Feng Yi, he joins Liu Xiu and contributes to the pacification of Hebei, the destruction of Wang Lang, campaigns against Tongma and Qingdu groups, and long-term defense of Wei commandery.

His source-bounded political importance comes after Ji Zun’s death. As weiwei, he tells Liu Xiu that constant public lament for Ji Zun makes ministers ashamed and afraid. Liu Xiu accepts the warning and stops repeating the comparison, making Yao Qi a concise case of loyal remonstrance that protects both ruler and officials from an unnecessary pressure signal.

Key Characteristics

• Yuntai Twenty-Eight General in the Guangwu founding coalition.
• Loyal and filial military actor introduced through a compact family and temperament profile.
• Founding-war participant tied to Hebei, Wang Lang, Tongma, Qingdu, and Wei commandery service.
• Weiwei who detects the political effect of Liu Xiu’s repeated praise of Ji Zun.
• Remonstrance actor whose warning succeeds because Liu Xiu immediately changes behavior.

Evidence

• Founding-general status: Hanji 708 identifies Yao Qi as one of the Yuntai Twenty-Eight Generals and son of Guiyang administrator Yao Meng.
• Military service: Hanji 708 links him to Hebei pacification, Wang Lang’s destruction, action against Tongma and Qingdu groups, and Wei commandery defense.
• Court warning: Hanji 708 says Yao Qi warns Liu Xiu that ministers feel ashamed and frightened when he keeps praising Ji Zun.
• Accepted remonstrance: Hanji 708 says Liu Xiu notices the problem after Yao Qi’s warning and stops repeating the lament.

Qualifications

Yao Qi’s current page is source-bounded. The episode names major career points but does not provide a full campaign chronology, title sequence, or independent account of his Wei commandery administration. His remonstrance is also narrow: it corrects a court signal around Ji Zun’s death, not a full policy dispute.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 708 to preserve both Yao Qi’s founding-general profile and his successful warning about praise pressure.

Relationships

• 光武帝刘秀 - ruler whom Yao Qi warns after Ji Zun’s death.
• 祭遵 - deceased model official whose praise creates the warning context.
• 公开称贤比较压力 - concept Yao Qi diagnoses and interrupts.
• 纳谏转政策式治理 - related pattern because Liu Xiu changes behavior after a concise warning.
• 建国将领消疑 - adjacent founding-general frame because Yao Qi belongs to the same postwar merit field.