Overview
The translated histories identify Changsun Shaoyuan as an aristocrat, family member, military officer, and musician. This record brings together 19 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Changsun Shaoyuan | 長孫紹遠 | Changsun Shaoyuan |
| Surname | Changsun | 長孫 | Changsun |
| Title | Duke of Shangdang | 上黨公 | Shangdang Gong |
| Title | Lord Zhangsun | 長孫公 | Zhangsun Gong |
| Childhood name | Ren | 仁 | Ren |
| Personal | Shaoyuan | 紹遠 | Shaoyuan |
| Given | Shaoyuan | 紹遠 | Shaoyuan |
| Courtesy name | Shi | 師 | Shi |
| Descriptive kinship | Son of Changsun Zhi and Lady Luo | 羅生子 | |
| Surname | Zhangsun | 長孫 | Zhangsun |
| Personal name | Zhangsun Shaoyuan | 長孫紹遠 | Zhangsun Shaoyuan |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: male
Roles
- Aristocrat
- Family Member
- Military Officer
- Musician
- Official
- Scholar
- Statesman
Life and dates
Death
- Date Context: Source Date: Text: 上遺表又陳之而卒 · Western Interval: Start: AD 561 · End: AD 578Explicit · zhoushu:026:s0180
Age
- Age: 13 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 稚作牧壽春 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 534Explicit · zhoushu:026:s0080
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 孝閔踐阼 · Western Year: AD 557Explicit · zhoushu:026:s0094
- Source Date: Text: 啟世宗; 高祖; 卒 · Western Interval: Start: AD 557 · End: AD 578
- Source Date: Text: 羅生三子 · Western Interval: Start: AD 515 · End: AD 534Explicit · weishu:030:s0162
- Source Date: Text: 魏孝武初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 532 · End: AD 534Explicit · zhoushu:026:s0087
- Source Date: Text: 齊神武稱兵而帝西遷 · Western Year: AD 534Explicit · zhoushu:026:s0088
Family
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- Kin of Zhangsun Si (長孫兕)Kinship Term: brother's son / 兄子 · Subject Role: nephew · Object Role: paternal-uncle · Intermediary Person Ids: Elder Brother of Zhangsun Shaoyuan (長孫紹遠兄)
Kinship Term: elder brother's son / 兄子 · Subject Role: paternal-uncle · Object Role: nephew · Intermediary Person Ids: Elder Brother of Zhangsun Shaoyuan (長孫紹遠兄) - Sibling of Changsun Shiliang (長孫士亮)Kinship Term: brother / 兄弟 · Shared Parentage: full
- Sibling of Changsun Jiliang (長孫季亮)Kinship Term: brother / 兄弟 · Shared Parentage: full
- Sibling of Elder Brother of Zhangsun Shaoyuan (長孫紹遠兄)Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger · Subject Role: younger-brother · Object Role: elder-brother
Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder - Child of Zhangsun Zhi (稚)Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son - Child of Lady Luo (羅氏)Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological
- Child of Changsun Zhi (長孫稚)Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological - Sibling of Zhangsun Cheng (長孫澄)Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger
Career and standing
- Label: Chief Clerk of the Right of the Minister of Public Works / 司徒右長史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 魏孝武初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 532 · End: AD 534Explicit · zhoushu:026:s0087
- Label: Grand Master of Music / 大司樂 · Action: appointedExplicit · zhoushu:026:s0093
- Label: Lesser Minister of Works / 小司空 · Action: appointedStrongly inferred · zhoushu:026:s0104
- Label: Palace Master of Writing / 殿中尚書 · Action: appointedExplicit · zhoushu:026:s0089
- Label: Recorder of the Masters of Writing / 錄尚書事 · Action: appointedExplicit · zhoushu:026:s0089
- Label: Grand Master of Ceremonial / 太常 · Action: heldExplicit · zhoushu:026:s0095
- Title: Duke of Shangdang / 上黨公 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 孝閔踐阼 · Western Year: AD 557Explicit · zhoushu:026:s0094
- Status: illness · Action: fell-illExplicit · zhoushu:026:s0113
Places and affiliations
- Label: Northern Wei / Western Wei / Northern Zhou / 魏周 · Relation: servedExplicit · zhoushu:026:s0087, zhoushu:026:s0094
- Place: Luoyang / 洛陽 · Relation: native-ofExplicit · zhoushu:026:s0075
Works and attributed material
- Explicit · zhoushu:026:s0113
- Explicit · zhoushu:026:s0180
- Explicit · zhoushu:026:s0099
Events and relationships
- Kind: scholarly · Role: reformer · Action: created instruments; fixed yellow-bell pitch using temple bell
- Kind: scholarly · Role: debater · Action: defended eight-tone system against Pei Zheng and later Gaozu · Other Person Id: Pei Zheng (裴正)
- Kind: political · Role: follower · Action: followed father west with Emperor Xiaowu · Other Person Id: Zhangsun Zhi (稚) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 帝西遷 · Western Year: AD 534Explicit · zhoushu:026:s0088
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: deeply mourned by the emperor · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · zhoushu:026:s0181
- Assessment: model official; surpasses Han Xiao and Kou · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Emperor Wen of Zhou (周文帝)
- Assessment: upright and martial · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · weishu:030:s0162
References in the histories
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