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Cai Jingli 蔡景歷

Attested AD 552 - AD 566

Passages: 8
Chapters: 5
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Cai Jingli as an administrator, courtier, family member, and general. This record brings together 8 passages from 5 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Cai Jingli	蔡景歷	Cai Jingli
Personal name	Cai Jingli	蔡景歷	Cai Jingli
Alternate	Cai Jingli	蔡景歷	Cài Jǐnglì
Personal name	Cai Jingli	蔡景歷	Cài Jǐnglì
Given name	Jingli	景歷	Jingli
Title	palace attendant	侍中

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · chenshu:007:s0032, chenshu:029:s0154
Sex: male
Explicit · chenshu:014:s0010, chenshu:018:s0093

Roles

Administrator
Courtier
Family Member
General
Official

Life and dates

Death

Explicit · chenshu:029:s0163

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: death of the Founder · Western Year: AD 559
Explicit event contextual date · chenshu:013:s0124
Source Date: Text: 天康前 · Western Interval: Start: AD 560 · End: AD 566
Explicit event contextual date · chenshu:018:s0093
Source Date: Text: 時年十六 · Western Year: AD 552
Explicit event contextual date · chenshu:014:s0008, chenshu:014:s0010
Source Date: Text: 高祖崩 · Western Year: AD 559
Explicit · chenshu:007:s0032
Source Date: Text: 高祖為南徐州刺史 · Western Interval: Start: AD 552 · End: AD 557
Explicit event contextual date · chenshu:029:s0160, chenshu:029:s0154

Family

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Parent of Cai Zheng (蔡徵)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological
Spouse of Lady Liu (劉氏)
Union Category: marriage · Union Type: remarriage
Spouse of Mother of Cai Zheng
Union Category: marriage

Career and standing

Label: palace attendant; central pacifying-army general / 侍中、中撫軍將軍 · Action: held
Explicit · chenshu:029:s0154

Places and affiliations

Place: Jiyang / 濟陽
Explicit · chenshu:014:s0010

Events and relationships

Event: concealed the Founder’s death and killed Xun Xiao · Kind: historical-event · Role: participant
Explicit · chenshu:013:s0124, chenshu:013:s0125
Relation: ally-of · Person Id: Zhang Yao'er (章要兒)
Explicit · chenshu:007:s0032

References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 7Volume 7: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage

高祖崩，后與中書舍人蔡景歷定計，祕不發喪，召世祖入纂，事在蔡景歷及侯安都傳。 When the Founder died, the empress and masters of writing attendant Cai Jingli laid their plans, kept the death secret, and summoned Emperor Wen to succeed; the affair is told in the biographies of Cai Jingli and Hou Andu.

Book of Chen, Chapter 13Volume 13: Xu Shipu; Lu Xida; Zhou Fu; Xun Lang; Zhou Jiong · 2 passages

高祖崩，宣太后與舍人蔡景歷祕不發喪，朗弟曉在都微知之，乃謀率其家兵襲臺。 When the Founder died, Empress Dowager Xuan and the secretary Cai Jingli kept the death secret and did not announce mourning. Lang's younger brother Xiao, who was in the capital, learned a little of it and plotted to lead his household troops in an attack on the palace.

事覺，景歷殺曉，仍繫其兄弟。 The plot was discovered; Jingli killed Xiao and imprisoned his brothers.

Book of Chen, Chapter 14Volume 14: Chen Chang; Chen Tanlang · 1 passage

高祖遣陳郡謝哲、濟陽蔡景歷輔昌為郡，又遣吳郡杜之偉授昌以經書。 The Founder sent Xie Zhe of Chen and Cai Jingli of Jiyang to help him govern the commandery, and Du Zhiwei of Wu to teach him the classics.

Book of Chen, Chapter 18Volume 18: Shen Zhong; Yuan Bi; Liu Zhongwei; Lu Shancai; Wang Zhi; Wei Zai · 1 passage

還朝，坐侍宴與蔡景歷言語過差，為有司所奏，免官。 After returning to court, he was impeached because his conversation with Cai Jingli while attending a banquet went beyond bounds, and he was dismissed.

Book of Chen, Chapter 29Volume 29: Zong Yuanrao; Sima Shen; Mao Xi; Cai Zheng · 3 passages

蔡徵字希祥，侍中、中撫軍將軍景歷子也。 Cai Zheng, styled Xixiang, was the son of attendant-in-ordinary and central pacifying-army general Cai Jingli.

徵本名覽，景歷以為有王祥之性，更名徵，字希祥。 Zheng's original name was Lan. Jingli thought he had Wang Xiang's nature, renamed him Zheng, and styled him Xixiang.

初拜吏部尚書，啟後主借鼓吹，後主謂所司曰「鼓吹軍樂，有功乃授，蔡徵不自量揆，紊我朝章，然其父景歷既有締構之功，宜且如所啟，拜訖即追還」。 When he was first made minister of personnel he asked Houzhu to lend him ceremonial music. Houzhu told the office, "Ceremonial music is military music, granted only for merit. Cai Zheng does not know his place and confuses court rules—yet since his father Jingli helped found the state, grant it for now, but take it back as soon as the appointment rite is done."