Chu Xuan 褚炫

Other names

Family

• Kin of Wang Jingwen (王景文)
  maternal uncle 從舅 · maternal line · Through Mother of Chu Xuan (褚炫母)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 113
• Descendant of Chu Xiuzhi (褚秀之)
  grandfather 祖 · paternal line · 2 generations
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 108
• Kin of Chu Yuan (褚淵)
  cousin 從兄 · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 114
• Sibling of Chu Zhao (褚炤)
  elder brother 兄 · Full siblings
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 110
• Child of Chu Faxian (褚法顯)
  father 父
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 109
• Child of Mother of Chu Xuan (褚炫母)
  mother 母 · maternal line
  Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 113

• Kinship Role relatives · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · nanqishu:032:s0129e

Origins and identity

• Clan Chu 褚
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 107

Career and standing

• General Who Assists the State 輔國將軍
  Appointed additionally
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 129
• Erudite 博士
  Appointed concurrently unaccepted
  Directly stated · nanqishu:032:s0129f
• Administrator of Dongyang 東陽太守
  AD 479 建元初 · Appointed · Grade middle two-thousand-bushel 中二千石
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 126
• Minister of Personnel 吏部尚書
  AD 483 永明元年 · Appointed
  Directly stated · nanqishu:032:s0129a
• Army Chief Aide on Prince of Jingling Pacify-the-North staff 竟陵王征北長史
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 129
• Five Offices aide 五官
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 115

Places and affiliations

• Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Associated with
  Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 2
• Polity Southern Qi 齊 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passages 125-126
• Polity Id liu-song · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passages 115, 123
• At Henan 河南
  Directly stated · Book of Liang 15, passage 18
• At Yangzhai in Henan 河南陽翟
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 107
• AD 479 建元初
  At Dongyang 東陽 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 126

Works and attributed material

• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Emperor Ming of Song (宋明帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passages 119-120

Events and relationships

• Divided 170000 cash among relatives
  Personal · Donor · At Shitou 石頭
  Directly stated · nanqishu:032:s0129e
• Eased emperor mood
  Court · Advisor · With Emperor Ming of Song (宋明帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passages 119-121
• Entered palace offices to advise on literary matters
  AD 477 昇明元年 · Administrative · Participant
  Directly stated · Book of Song 10, passage 142
• Ill without money for medicine
  Medical · Subject
  Directly stated · nanqishu:032:s0129e
• Pheasant hunt
  Ritual · Attendant · With Emperor Ming of Song (宋明帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 116
• Selection office gate quiet
  Personal · Subject
  Directly stated · nanqishu:032:s0129c

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment excels Yuan tenfold in integrity and stands alone · Mode named-person-report Speaker Chu Yuan (褚淵)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 114
• Assessment kept the Chu house pure · Mode encomium
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 214
• Assessment pure and spare from youth · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 113
• Assessment pure independence; avoided social intercourse except condolence or inquiry · Mode commentator-judgment
  Directly stated · nanqishu:032:s0129b
• Item yellow-paper hat box 黃紙帽箱 · Relation Used
  Directly stated · nanqishu:032:s0129d

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passages 2, 107
• held Palace Attendant three times
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 32, passage 128