Cao Xuan (曹絢) | 24 Histories

Overview

Cao Xuan was a scholar and Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

c. AD 870 to c. AD 920 代襲儒素
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 93, passage 125

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Cao Guozhen (曹國珍)
father 父 · paternal line
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 93, passage 125
Child of Cao Chan (曹蟾)
grandfather of Cao Guozhen 祖 · paternal line
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 93, passage 125

Career and standing

plain Confucian scholar-official 儒素
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 93, passage 125

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 93Volume 93 Book of Later Jin 19: Biographies 8: Lu Zhi, Li Zhuanmei, Lu Zhan, Cui Zhuo, Xue Rong, Cao Guozhen, Zhang Renyuan, Zhao Xi, Li Xia, Yin Yuyu, Zheng Yunsou · 1 passage

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曾祖藹，祖蟾，父絢，代襲儒素。 His great-grandfather was Ai, his grandfather Chan, and his father Xuan; for generations the family had upheld the tradition of plain Confucian scholar-officials.