Overview
The translated histories identify Chu Suiliang as a calligrapher, official, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 3 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Chu Suiliang | 褚遂良 | Chǔ Suìliáng |
| Surname | Chu | 褚 | Chǔ |
| Personal name | Chu Suiliang | 褚遂良 | Chǔ Suìliáng |
| Personal | Chu Suiliang | 褚遂良 | Chu Suiliang |
| Personal name | Chu Suiliang | 褚遂良 | Chu Suiliang |
| Given | Suiliang | 遂良 | Suìliáng |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · suishu:086:s0032, xintangshu:121:s0057
- Sex: maleExplicit · xintangshu:055:s0035
Roles
- Calligrapher
- Official
- Scholar
- Writer
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 十五年 · Regnal Year: 15 · Western Year: AD 641Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:055:s0033, xintangshu:055:s0035
- Source Date: Text: 五代史志成書前後（貞觀十五年至顯慶元年） · Western Interval: Start: AD 641 · End: AD 656
- Source Date: Text: 褚遂良 · Western Interval: Start: AD 596 · End: AD 658Explicit · xintangshu:121:s0057
Career and standing
- Label: Grandee Remonstrator / 諫議大夫 · Action: heldExplicit · xintangshu:055:s0035
Places and affiliations
- Polity: Tang / 唐 · Relation: servedStrongly inferred · suishu:086:s0032
- Polity: Tang / 唐 · Relation: servedExplicit event contextual date · xintangshu:055:s0035
Works and attributed material
- Work: preface to the Five Phases treatise / 五行志序 · Relation: attributed-author · Negated: falseUncertain · suishu:086:s0032
- Work: preface to the treatise on the Five Phases / 五行志序 · Relation: attributed-author · Provenance: Mode: textual-variantUncertain · suishu:086:s0032
- Kind: memorial · Role: author · Quoted: trueExplicit · xintangshu:055:s0035, xintangshu:055:s0036
Events and relationships
- Kind: political · Role: remonstrator · Action: memorialized against money-handling clerks receiving officeExplicit · xintangshu:055:s0035, xintangshu:055:s0036
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: probably wrote only a preface, not commissioned as treatise compiler · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · suishu:086:s0033
Source notes
- Historicity: historicalExplicit · xintangshu:055:s0035
- Statement: Standard biography records no commission to compile; suspected to have written only a preface, so his name is omitted in the present record · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · suishu:086:s0033
References in the histories
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