Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and Scholar

Cai Zhongxiong 蔡仲熊

Attested AD 489 - AD 501

Passages: 3
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Cai Zhongxiong was an official and Scholar.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 489 時
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 39, passages 72, 76
AD 499 to AD 501 永元中
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 25, passages 151-152

Key source chapters

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 39 Volume 39 Biographies 20: Liu Huan, Di Jin, Lu Cheng 2 passages
Book of Liang, Chapter 25 Volume 25: Zhou She; Xu Mian 1 passage

Career and standing

ritual scholar 禮學
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 39, passage 72
Left Assistant Director of the Secretariat 尚書左丞
Held
Directly stated · Book of Liang 25, passage 152
Left Assistant in the Masters of Writing 尚書左丞
Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 39, passage 76
Recorder on the staff of the Pacification General of the West 安西記室
Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 39, passage 76

Places and affiliations

Polity Southern Qi 齊 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Liang 25, passage 152
At Jiyang 濟陽
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 39, passage 72

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 39, passages 72-74

Events and relationships

Relation Colleague of · Person He Tongzhi (何佟之)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 25, passage 152

Assessments and attributes

Assessment renowned for broad learning in ritual · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 39, passage 72

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Liang 25, passage 152; Book of Southern Qi 39, passage 72

References in the histories

Book of Liang, Chapter 25Volume 25: Zhou She; Xu Mian · 1 passage

當時鳩斂所餘，權付尚書左丞蔡仲熊、驍騎將軍何佟之，共掌其事。 What remained from the earlier collection was provisionally entrusted to Cai Zhongxiong, Left Assistant Director of the Secretariat, and He Tongzhi, General of Valiant Cavalry, who jointly oversaw the work.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 39Volume 39 Biographies 20: Liu Huan, Di Jin, Lu Cheng · 2 passages

時濟陽蔡仲熊禮學博聞，謂人曰：「凡鍾律在南，不容復得調平。 At that time Cai Zhongxiong of Jiyang, renowned for his learning in ritual, told people: "Whenever pitch-pipes and bells are in the south, they cannot again be brought to proper tuning.

仲熊歷安西記室，尚書左丞。 Zhongxiong served successively as Recorder on the staff of the Pacification General of the West and as Left Assistant in the Masters of Writing.