Qin and Han · Scholar and Recluse

Cai Xun 蔡勛

Cài Xūn

Attested AD 9 - AD 25

Passages
3
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Cai Xun as a scholar. This record brings together 3 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Cai Xun 蔡勛 Cài Xūn

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Scholar

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 光武即位 · Western Year: AD 25
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0309
  • Source Date: Text: 王莽時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 9 · End: AD 23
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0305

Family

  • Ancestor of Cai Yong (邕)
    Kinship Term: great-great-grandson / 玄孫 · Generation Distance: 4 · Line: paternal

Career and standing

  • Status: refused office under Wang Mang and was renowned · Negated Office Service: true

Works and attributed material

  • Work: biography of Cai Yong / 邕傳 · Relation: biographical-account-in

Events and relationships

References in the histories

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Book of Later Han, Chapter 28Volume 25: Biography of Zhuo, Lu, Wei, Liu · 3 passages