Chai Xijin (柴熙謹) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Chai Xijin as an aristocrat, military officer, and royal family member. This record brings together 9 passages from 4 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Chai Xijin	柴熙謹	Chai Xijin
Title	Prince of Ji	紀王
Title	Prince of Ji	紀王	Ji Wang
Title	Prince of Ji	纪王
Noble title	Prince of Ji	紀王	Jì wáng
Title	Prince Xi Jin of Ji	紀王熙謹
Personal name	Xi Jin	熙謹	Xi Jin
Personal	Xi Jin	熙谨
Personal	Xijin	熙謹	Xijin
Personal name	Xijin	熙謹	Xījǐn

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:122:s0025, xinwudaishi:020:s0070
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:012:s0154

Roles

Aristocrat
Military Officer
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾德二年十月 · Western Year: AD 964
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:122:s0025, jiuwudaishi:122:s0044, xinwudaishi:020:s0082

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾德二年十月 · Regnal Year: 2 · Lunar Month: 10 · Western Year: AD 964
Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0082
Source Date: Text: 顯德六年 · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0080
Source Date: Text: 乾德二年十月 · Western Year: AD 964
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:122:s0025, jiuwudaishi:122:s0044
Source Date: Text: 显德六年八月 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:012:s0154
Source Date: Text: 顯德六年 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:122:s0025, jiuwudaishi:122:s0042
Source Date: Text: 顯德六年八月庚寅 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:120:s0041

Family

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Child of Emperor Shizong (世宗)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 6
Kinship Term: younger brother of Gong / 弟 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Subject Birth Order: 6
Sibling of Emperor Gongdi (恭帝)
Kinship Term: imperial brother / 皇弟 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: elder
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: uncertain

Career and standing

Label: Grand General of the Right Martial Guard / 右武衛大將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 顯德六年八月 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:122:s0042
Label: Grand General of the Right Martial Guard / 右武衞大將軍 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0080
Title: Prince of Ji / 紀王 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 顯德六年 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:122:s0025, jiuwudaishi:122:s0042
Title: Prince of Ji / 紀王 · Action: granted
Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0080
Title: Prince of Ji / 纪王 · Action: enfeoffed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:012:s0154

Source notes

Field: enfeoffment-timing · Statement: Main biography says enfeoffed in Xiande 6; Ouyang account says living princes were unenfeoffed until after Shizong's death in that year. / 本傳云顯德六年封；歐陽史云皇子在者先不封，八月始封 · Witness Person Id: Ouyang Xiu (歐陽修)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:122:s0025, jiuwudaishi:122:s0037, jiuwudaishi:122:s0042

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 120Volume 120 Book of Later Zhou 22: Emperor Gong Annals · 1 passage

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熙謹拜光祿大夫、檢校太保、右武衛大將軍，封紀王，食邑三千戶； Xijin was appointed Grand Master of Splendid Happiness and acting Grand Guardian, made great general of the Right Martial Guards and Prince of Ji with three thousand fief households;

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 122Volume 122 Book of Later Zhou 24: Biographies 2: Imperial Family · 4 passages

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紀王熙謹，世宗子，顯德六年封，皇朝乾德二年卒。 Prince Xi Jin of Ji, also Shizong's son, was enfeoffed in Xiande 6 and died in the second year of the Song Qiande era.

〈（《歐陽史·家人傳》云：世宗子七人，長曰宜哥，次二皆未名，次曰恭皇帝，次曰熙讓，次曰熙謹，次曰熙誨，皆不知其母為誰氏，宜哥與其二皆為漢誅。 Ouyang Xiu's family biographies record seven sons of Shizong: the eldest Yige, two younger boys still unnamed, then the future Emperor Gong, then Xi Rang, Xi Jin, and Xi Hui. Their mothers are unknown. Yige and the two unnamed boys were killed by the Later Han.

熙謹、熙誨皆前未封爵，遂拜熙謹右武衛大將軍，封紀王； Xi Jin and Xi Hui had never held titles; now Xi Jin was made Grand General of the Right Martial Guard and Prince of Ji;

乾德二年十月，熙謹卒，熙讓、熙誨不知其所終。）〉 Xi Jin died in the tenth month of Qiande 2; what became of Xi Rang and Xi Hui is not recorded. (End of editorial note.)〉

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 12Volume 12 Later Zhou Annals 3: Shizong, Emperor Gong · 1 passage

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八月庚寅，封弟熙让为曹王，熙谨纪王，熙诲蕲王。 On gengyin his younger brothers Xi Rang, Xi Jin, and Xi Hui were enfeoffed as Princes of Cao, Ji, and Qi.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 20Volume 20: Shizong of Later Zhou's Family · 3 passages

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世宗子七人：長曰宜哥，次二皆未名，次曰恭皇帝，次曰熙讓，次曰熙謹，次曰熙誨，皆不知其母為誰氏。 Shizong had seven sons: the eldest was called Yige; the next two were never named; then came Emperor Gong, followed by Xirang, Xijin, and Xihui. The identity of each mother is unknown.

熙謹、熙誨皆前未封爵，遂拜熙謹右武衞大將軍，封紀王； Xijin and Xihui had not previously received titles; Xijin was then appointed Grand General of the Right Martial Guard and enfeoffed as Prince of Ji;

皇朝乾德二年十月，熙謹卒。 In the tenth month of Qiande 2 under the Song, Xijin died.