Remnant Yelü Imperial Clan Serving the Jin Court (1172)

Timeline

1. 1125–1172Xianping Circuit (former Liao territory) · NortheastAfter Liao's fall, the Jin court forced the Khitan Yelü clan to take the surname Yila and the Xiao clan to take Shimò, a deliberate slight. Many Liao-descended nobles remained in Jin territory, some migrating west to found Western Liao, others serving in Jin or being enrolled in the meng'an mou-ke system; excavated epitaphs show Khitans still privately called themselves Yelü.
2. 1172Imperial City of the Jin Central Capital · North ChinaYila Dao, fluent in Jurchen, Khitan, and Chinese, and credited with helping suppress the Yila Wo-wo uprising and with upright governance, was appointed chancellor in Dading 12, becoming a landmark case of Liao-descended Yelü imperial clan remnants serving at the Jin center; he later rose to Right Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs and Zhongzhang Zhengshi (Central Equitable Administration Commissioner).