Cai Tuo'er (蔡脫兒) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Cai Tuo'er as an eunuch. This record brings together 4 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Cai Tuo'er	蔡脫兒	Cai Tuo'er
Personal name	Cai	蔡
Alternate name	Cai Lin'er	蔡臨兒	Cài Lín'ér
Personal name	Cai Tuo'er	蔡脫兒	Cai Tuo'er
Personal name	Cai Tuo'er	蔡脫兒	Cài Tuō'ér

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · chenshu:007:s0165
Sex: male
Explicit · chenshu:007:s0198

Roles

Eunuch

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 宦者蔡脫兒李善度進請 · Western Interval: Start: AD 582 · End: AD 589
Strongly inferred · chenshu:007:s0198
Source Date: Text: 後主怠政時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 584 · End: AD 589
Explicit · chenshu:007:s0165

Career and standing

Label: eunuch / 宦者
Explicit · chenshu:007:s0198

Places and affiliations

Polity: Chen / 陳 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · chenshu:007:s0198

Events and relationships

Kind: court · Role: intermediary · Action: presented-petitions · Other Person Id: Li Shandu (李善度)
Explicit · chenshu:007:s0198

Source notes

Field: personal-name · Statement: History of the Southern Dynasties reads Cai Lin'er (蔡臨兒) for Cai Tuo'er (蔡脫兒) · Witness Work: History of the Southern Dynasties / 南史
Explicit · chenshu:007:s0198

References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 7Volume 7: Empresses and Consorts · 4 passages

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是時，後主怠於政事，百司啟奏，嵭因宦者蔡脫兒、李善度進請，[9]後主置張貴妃於膝上共決之。 The Last Emperor had grown slack in rule; memorials from every office came only through eunuchs Cai Tuo'er and Li Shandu—[9] and he set Precious Consort Zhang on his knee to decide them with him.

李、蔡所不能記者，貴妃嵭為條疏，無所遺脫。 What Li and Cai forgot, the Precious Consort would lay out in clear lists without omission.

而後宮之家，不遵法度，有挂於理者，但求哀於貴妃，貴妃則令李、蔡先啟其事，而後從容為言之。 Inner-palace families who broke the law would beg the Precious Consort's mercy; she had Li and Cai raise the case first, then spoke for them at leisure.

嵭因宦者蔡脫兒李善度進請「蔡脫兒」《南史》作「蔡臨兒」。 On "memorials came through eunuchs Cai Tuo'er and Li Shandu": the History of the Southern Dynasties reads Cai Lin'er for Cai Tuo'er.