Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Filial Commoner

Cui Chengzong 崔承宗

Attested AD 469 - AD 515

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Cui Chengzong was a Filial Commoner.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 469 to AD 515 後青、徐歸魏
Dated from the passage context · History of the Northern Dynasties 84, passages 103-105

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Father of Cui Chengzong (崔承宗之父)
father 父
Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 84, passage 102
Child of Mother of Cui Chengzong (崔承宗之母)
mother 母
Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 84, passage 102

Places and affiliations

Polity Wei 魏 · Relation Subject of
Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 84, passage 103
At Qi Province 齊州
Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 84, passage 102

Events and relationships

Carried mother's coffin by secret routes ten thousand li to the capital
Ritual · Mourner · At the capital 京師
Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 84, passage 104
Relation Honored by · Person Sun Huiwei (孫惠蔚)
Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 84, passages 105-106

Assessments and attributes

Assessment supremely filial by nature · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of the Northern Dynasties 84, passage 104

References in the histories

History of the Northern Dynasties, Chapter 84Volume 84 Biographies 72: Filial Acts · 3 passages

時有齊州人崔承宗，其父于宋世仕漢中，母喪因殯彼。 At that time there was a man of Qi Province named Cui Chengzong. His father had served in Hanzhong during the Song dynasty, and when his mother died she was temporarily buried there.

承宗性至孝，萬里投險，偷路負喪還京師。 Chengzong was supremely filial by nature. He traveled ten thousand li through perilous country, finding secret routes to carry his mother's coffin back to the capital.

於是吊贈盡禮，如舊相識。 He then offered full funeral condolences and gifts, treating Chengzong as though they were old friends.