Cui Hongdu 崔弘度

Family

• Kin of Lady Cui, Consort of the Prince of Henan (崔妃)
  brother's daughter 弟女 · paternal line · Through Cui Hongsheng (崔弘升)
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passages 236, 238
• Parent of Consort of the Prince of Qin (秦王妃)
  daughter 女
  Strongly inferred · Book of Sui 74, passages 238, 249
• Sibling of Cui Hongsheng (崔弘升)
  elder brother 兄 · paternal line
  younger brother 弟 · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passages 236, 305

• Kinship Role imperial consorts of the house · Count 2
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 238
• Kinship Role sons and younger brothers · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 248
• Kinship Role younger brothers · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 250

Career and standing

• Acting Minister of the Palace Treasury 檢校太府卿
  AD 601 to AD 604 仁壽中 · Held
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 237
• Campaign Commander 行軍總管
  AD 590 to AD 600 仍領行軍總管以備胡 · Held
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 74, passage 236
• Acting Governor of Yuanzhou affairs 檢校原州事
  AD 590 to AD 600 及還，檢校原州事 · Held
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 74, passage 236
• Pleaded illness at home
  Retired ill
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 250

Places and affiliations

• Polity Sui 隋 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passages 236-237, 251
• AD 590 to AD 600 檢校原州事
  At Yuanzhou 原州 · Relation Posted to
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 74, passage 236

Works and attributed material

• Admonition · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 238
• Reported speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Mode hearsay
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 254
• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passages 240, 242-243

Events and relationships

• Beat gray haired sons and younger brothers
  Domestic · Household head
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 248
• Claimed illness and would not rise when restoration of Cui consort was proclaimed
  AD 604 煬帝即位 · Political · Subject · With Emperor Yang (煬帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passages 251-255
• Grieved after the two consorts were punished
  Personal · Subject
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passages 249-250
• Guarded against barbarians found no enemy and returned
  AD 590 to AD 600 仍領行軍總管以備胡，無虜而還 · Military · Commander · At Yuanzhou 原州
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 74, passage 236
• Had attendants beaten eighty strokes
  Legal · Punisher
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passages 240-244
• Honored by the emperor
  Ritual · Beneficiary · With Gaozu (高祖)
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 236

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment Chang'an proverb: better drink three sheng of vinegar than meet Cui Hongdu · Mode named-source-report Source Work Chang'an saying 長安為之語
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 246
• Assessment officials and artisans who witnessed him dared not conceal anything · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 245
• Assessment ran his household like an office; praised by contemporaries · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 248

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Sui 74, passage 240