Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official

Chu Wei 褚緭

Attested AD 499 - AD 510

Passages: 13
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Chu Wei as an official and writer. This record brings together 13 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Chu Wei	褚緭	Chu Wei
Personal	Chu Wei	褚緭
Given	Wei	緭	Wei

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Official
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: fell-from-horse · Cause: hunting
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 入魏後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 505 · End: AD 510
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Source Date: Text: 齊末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 499 · End: AD 501
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Career and standing

Label: Shiping administrator / 始平太守 · Action: appointed
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Label: Xunyang administrator / 尋陽太守 · Action: appointed
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Label: Yangzhou western staff officer / 揚州西曹 · Action: held
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Places and affiliations

Label: Northern Wei / 魏 · Relation: defected-to
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Place: Henan / 河南
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Works and attributed material

Kind: poem · Role: author · Quote: true
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quote: true
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References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 20Volume 20: Liu Lijian; Chen Bozhi · 13 passages

河南褚緭，京師之薄行者，齊末爲揚州西曹，遇亂居閭里； Chu Wei of Henan was a rake of the capital; at Qi's end he was Yangzhou western staff officer and, when chaos came, stayed in his lane;

而輕薄互能自致，惟緭獨不達。 while other rakes still found their way up, only Wei could not.

高祖卽位，緭頻造尚書范雲，雲不好緭，堅距之。 After Gaozu took the throne Wei often visited Fan Yun, minister of personnel; Yun disliked him and kept him out.

緭益怒，私語所知曰：「建武以後，草澤底下，悉化成貴人，吾何罪而見棄。 Wei grew furious and whispered to friends, "Since Jianwu every nobody has become a lord—what is my crime that I am thrown away?

及伯之鄉人朱龍符爲長流參軍，並乘伯之愚闇，恣行姦險，刑政通塞，悉共專之。 Zhu Longfu, Bozhi's townsman, became senior recorder; he and Wei preyed on Bozhi's ignorance and ran the province by fraud and force.

緭、永忠等每贊成之。 Wei, Yongzhong, and the rest kept urging him on.

使緭詐爲蕭寶夤書，以示僚佐。 He had Wei forge a letter as from Xiao Baoyin and show the staff.

緭說伯之曰：「今舉大事，宜引衆望，程元沖不與人同心； Wei urged him, "A great rising needs men the troops trust. Cheng Yuanchong is not with us;

仍以緭爲尋陽太守，加討逆將軍； He made Wei Xunyang administrator and Suppresses-Rebellion general;

伯之聞茂來，謂緭等曰：「王觀旣不就命，鄭伯倫又不肯從，便應空手受困。 When he heard Mao was coming he told Wei, "Wang Guan would not come; Zheng Bolun would not follow—we are trapped with empty hands.

王茂前軍旣至，伯之表裏受敵，乃敗走，間道亡命出江北，與子虎牙及褚緭俱入魏。 Mao's vanguard came; caught between two fires, Bozhi fled by hidden paths north of the river and entered Wei with Huya and Chu Wei.

褚緭在魏，魏人欲擢用之。 Chu Wei was in Wei, and the Wei court wished to promote and employ him.

魏元會，緭戲爲詩曰：「帽上著籠冠，袴上著朱衣，不知是今是，不知非昔非。」 At the Wei New Year assembly Chu jested in verse: "A cage-crown on his hat, vermilion robes on his trousers—he cannot tell now from then, nor then from now."