Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and Aristocrat

Chu Pou 褚裒

Attested AD 328 - AD 349

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Chu Pou was an official and Aristocrat.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Jiye	季野	Jiye

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 328 to AD 349 褚公故事／季野
Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 93, passages 245, 276

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Ancestor of Chu Shuang (褚爽)
grandfather 祖 · paternal line · 2 generations
Directly stated · Book of Jin 93, passage 269
Parent of Chu Xin (褚歆)
father 父 · paternal line
son 子 · paternal line
Sources vary in certainty · Book of Jin 93, passage 269

Places and affiliations

Polity Id eastern-jin · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Jin 93, passage 245

Assessments and attributes

Assessment inwardly clear in judging men; a luminary south of the Yangzi · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Jin 93, passage 276

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Jin 93, passages 245, 269

References in the histories

Book of Jin, Chapter 93Volume 93 Biographies 63: Imperial Affines · 3 passages

謝安謂蘊曰：「卿居后父之重，不應妄自菲薄，以虧時遇，宜依褚公故事，但令在貴權於事不事耳。 Xie An told him, ‘As the empress’s father you must not sell yourself short. Do as Chu Pou did: take the high title but leave day-to-day duties to others.’

祖裒，父歆。 His grandfather was Chu Pou; his father Chu Xin.

弘理儀形外朗，季野神鑒內融，仲祖溫潤風流，幼道清虛寡欲，皆擅名江表，見重當時，豈惟后族之英華，抑亦搢紳之令望者也。 Du Yi’s looks were open and bright; Chu Pou read men with inward clarity; Wang Meng moved with gentle grace; He Zhun lived spare and detached—all were luminaries south of the Yangzi and pillars of their age, ornaments not only to the imperial in-laws but to the whole gentry.