Overview
The translated histories identify Cai Shu as a rebel, royal family member, and ruler. This record brings together 5 passages from 5 chapters across 5 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Cai Shu | 蔡叔 | Cai Shu |
| Alternate | Cai | 蔡 | Cai |
| Personal name | Cai | 蔡 | Cai |
| Personal | Cai | 蔡 | Cai |
| Title | Cai Shu | 蔡叔 | Cai Shu |
| Title | Cai Shu | 蔡叔 | |
| Title | lord of Cai | 蔡叔 |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: male
Roles
- Rebel
- Royal Family Member
- Ruler
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 周公誅管、蔡 · Western Year: BC 1040Uncertain · liaoshi:002:s0212
- Source Date: Text: 管、蔡 · Western Year: BC 1042Strongly inferred · liangshu:055:s0188
- Source Date: Text: 管、蔡之亂 · Western Interval: Start: BC 1042 · End: BC 1035Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:034:s0055
- Source Date: Text: 蔡叔 · Western Interval: Start: BC 1046 · End: BC 1042Explicit event contextual date · shiji:003:s0233
Family
- Kin of Duke of Zhou (周公)Kinship Term: Cai / 蔡 · Line: paternal
- Sibling of Guan Shu (管叔)Kinship Term: Guan and Cai / 管、蔡 · Shared Parentage: full
References in the histories
Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.