Chen Xilie (陳希烈) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Chen Xilie as an official and scholar. This record brings together 4 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Chen Xilie	陳希烈	Chen Xilie
Personal name	Chen Xilie	陳希烈	Chen Xilie
Personal name	Chen Xilie	陳希烈	Chén Xīliè

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution · Place: Lone Willow Tree / 獨柳樹 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至德二載 · Western Year: AD 757
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天寶 · Western Interval: Start: AD 742 · End: AD 756
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Source Date: Text: 至德二載 · Western Year: AD 757
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Career and standing

Label: grand academician / 大學士 · Action: held
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Status: execution · Action: beheaded · Place: Lone Willow Tree / 獨柳樹
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Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: subject · Action: humiliated-after-Eastern-Capital-recovery · Other Person Id: Cui Qi (崔器)
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References in the histories

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 119Volume 115 Biographies 65: Cui Qi, Zhao Guozhen, Cui Guan, Jing Kuo, Wei Yuanfu, Wei Shaoyou, Wei Boyu, Li Cheng · 3 passages

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及收東京，令陳希烈已下數百人如西京之儀。 When the Eastern Capital was retaken, he required several hundred men, including Chen Xilie, to undergo the same humiliation as at the Western Capital.

三司使、梁國公李峴執奏，固言不可，乃六等定罪，多所原宥，唯陳希烈、達奚珣斬於獨柳樹下。 Li Xian, Duke of Liang and commissioner of the Three Offices, submitted a forceful memorial insisting this must not be done. Guilt was then graded into six classes; many were spared, and only Chen Xilie and Daxi Xun were beheaded beneath the Lone Willow Tree.

後蕭華自相州賊中仕賊官歸闕，奏云：「賊中仕官等重為安慶緒所驅，脅至相州，初聞廣平王奉宣恩命，釋放陳希烈已下，皆相顧曰：『我等國家見待如此，悔恨何及。』 Later Xiao Hua, who had held office under the rebels at Xiangzhou before returning to court, memorialized: "Those of us who served in the rebel realm were driven again by An Qingxu to Xiangzhou. When we first heard that the Prince of Guangping proclaimed the imperial grace and released Chen Xilie and the rest, we looked at one another and said, 'The throne has treated us with such mercy—what regret could exceed this?'

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 130Volume 126 Biographies 76: Li Kui, Li Han, Chen Shaoyou, Lu Yue, Pei Xu · 1 passage

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所引文句，悉兼他義，諸生不能對，甚為大學士陳希烈所嘆賞，又以同宗，遇之甚厚。 Every passage he cited carried layered meanings his peers could not answer. Grand Academician Chen Xilie was deeply impressed and, finding they shared a clan name, treated him with great favor.