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Cui Guang 崔光

Cuī Guāng

Attested AD 386 - AD 534

Passages: 10
Chapters: 5
Histories: 2

Overview

The translated histories identify Cui Guang as a courtier, historian, official, and scholar. This record brings together 10 passages from 5 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Cui Guang	崔光	Cuī Guāng
Personal name	Cui Guang	崔光	Cui Guang
Personal	Cui Guang	崔光	Cui Guang
Personal name	Guang	光	Guang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · weishu:024:s0048, weishu:027:s0053, weishu:086:s0067
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · weishu:110:s0106

Roles

Courtier
Historian
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 世修國史 · Western Interval: Start: AD 500 · End: AD 523
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:110:s0127
Source Date: Text: 候司徒崔光 · Western Interval: Start: AD 500 · End: AD 523
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:038:s0108
Source Date: Text: 國史自…以還 · Western Interval: Start: AD 386 · End: AD 534
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:086:s0067
Source Date: Text: 太和中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 493 · End: AD 496
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:027:s0053
Source Date: Text: 太和十九年 · Western Year: AD 495
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:024:s0048
Source Date: Text: 當復為崔光 · Western Interval: Start: AD 544 · End: AD 550
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:110:s0106

Career and standing

Label: Yellow Gate Attendant / 黃門侍郎 · Action: held
Explicit · weishu:024:s0048

Works and attributed material

Work: court dress regulations / 服制 · Relation: compiler · Other Person Id: Yuan Yanming (元延明)
Explicit · weishu:024:s0105
Work: national history / 國史 · Relation: compiler
Explicit · weishu:086:s0067
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Emperor Xiaowen (孝文皇帝)
Explicit · weishu:024:s0048, weishu:024:s0049, weishu:024:s0050, weishu:024:s0051, weishu:024:s0052
Kind: memorial · Role: author
Explicit · weishu:024:s0055, weishu:024:s0056

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 38Volume 38 Biographies 30: Xin Shu; Yuan Wenyao; Zhao Yanshen · 1 passage

年十歲，曾候司徒崔光。 At ten he once called on Minister over the Masses Cui Guang.

Book of Wei, Chapter 24Volume 20: Emperor Wencheng's Five Princes · 3 passages

黃門侍郎崔光、宋弁，通直常侍劉芳，典命下大夫李元凱，中書侍郎高聰等議曰：[4]「三臨之事，乃自古禮，爰及漢魏，行之者稀。 Cui Guang and Song Bian of the Yellow Gate, Liu Fang, regular attendant of direct transmission, Li Yuankai, master of ceremonies lower grandee, Gao Cong, secretariat attendant, and others replied:[4] "Three visits are an ancient rite, yet from Han through Wei few have practiced it.

光等議曰：「東堂之哭，蓋以不臨之故。 Guang and the others replied: "The Eastern Hall weeping existed because the emperor did not visit in person.

詔與侍中崔光撰定服制。 He was ordered with Palace Attendant Cui Guang to draft court dress rules.

Book of Wei, Chapter 27Volume 22: Emperor Xiaowen's Five Princes · 3 passages

高祖泛舟天淵池，謂郭祚、崔光、宋弁曰：「人生須自放，不可終朝讀書。 Gaozu drifted a boat on the Tianyuan Pool and said to Guo Zuo, Cui Guang, and Song Bian, "A man must sometimes loosen the rein. He cannot read from dawn to dusk.

光曰：「孔子稱：『血氣未定，戒之在色』，傳曰：『晝以訪事，夜以安身』。 Cui Guang said, "Confucius warned, 'When blood and breath are unsettled, beware of desire.' The tradition says, 'By day attend to affairs; by night rest the body.'

高祖以光言為然，乃不令恂晝入內。 Gaozu accepted Guang's counsel and would not let Xun enter the inner palace by day.

Book of Wei, Chapter 86Volume 81: Qi Jun, Shan Wei, Liu Renzhi, Yuwen Zhongzhi · 1 passage

國史自鄧淵、崔琛、崔浩、高允、李彪、崔光以還，諸人相繼撰錄，綦儁及偉等諂說上黨王天穆及尒朱世隆，以為國書正應代人修緝，不宜委之餘人，是以儁、偉等更主大籍。 Since Deng Yuan, Cui Chen, Cui Hao, Gao Yun, Li Biao, and Cui Guang, the national history had been compiled in turn by successive scholars; Qi Jun, Wei, and others flattered Shangdang Prince Tianmu and Erzhu Shilong, arguing that the state annals ought to be edited by men of Dai and not entrusted to outsiders—so Jun, Wei, and their circle again took charge of the great registers.

Book of Wei, Chapter 110Volume 104: Author's Preface · 2 passages

啟成呈上，文襄時侍側，獻武指收曰：「此人當復為崔光。」 When the memorial was finished and submitted, Wen Xiang stood nearby. Xianwu pointed at Shou and said: "This man will become another Cui Guang."

始魏初鄧淵撰代記十餘卷，其後崔浩典史，游雅、高允、程駿、李彪、崔光、李琰之世修其業。 At the founding of Wei, Deng Yuan compiled the Annals of the Dynasty in more than ten scrolls. Later Cui Hao directed the historiography, and You Ya, Gao Yun, Cheng Jun, Li Biao, Cui Guang, and Li Yanzhi carried on the tradition through successive generations.