Cui Juyin (崔居儉) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Cui Juyin as an official and scholar. This record brings together 8 passages from 6 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Cui Juyin	崔居儉	Cui Juyin
Surname	Cui	崔	Cui
Personal	Cui Jujian	崔居儉
Personal name	Cui Jujian	崔居儉	Cui Jujian
Personal name	Cui Jujian	崔居儉	Cuī Jūjiǎn
Personal	Cui Jujian	崔居儉	Cui Jujian
Personal name	Cui Juyin	崔居儉	Cui Juyin
Given	Jujian	居儉	Jujian

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0062
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:057:s0126, jiuwudaishi:127:s0007, jiuwudaishi:143:s0007, jiuwudaishi:144:s0041
Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:042:s0087

Roles

Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 長興二年五月 · Lunar Month: 5 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:143:s0113
Source Date: Text: 唐莊宗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 923 · End: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:144:s0038, jiuwudaishi:144:s0041
Source Date: Text: 天成四年五月 · Western Year: AD 929
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:040:s0062
Source Date: Text: 崔居儉 · Western Year: AD 925
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:057:s0126
Source Date: Text: 清泰 · Western Interval: Start: AD 934 · End: AD 936
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:127:s0044
Source Date: Text: 清泰初 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:127:s0007
Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:042:s0087

Career and standing

Label: Minister of Works; formerly Left Secretariat Director / 工部尚書、尚書左丞 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0087
Label: Right Vice Director of the Secretariat / 尚書右丞 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:040:s0062
Label: Left Assistant Director of the Department of State Affairs / 尚書左丞 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:143:s0113
Label: Vice Minister of War / 尚書兵部侍郎 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0041

Works and attributed material

Work: ascending-song hymn for Tang Zhuangzong's temple chamber / 登歌樂章 · Relation: author
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0039, jiuwudaishi:144:s0041
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Mode: quotation
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:143:s0113, jiuwudaishi:143:s0114
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:127:s0044, jiuwudaishi:127:s0045, jiuwudaishi:127:s0046

References in the histories

Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 40Volume 40 Book of Later Tang 16: Mingzong Annals 6 · 1 passage

Open chapter

壬辰，以權知尚書右丞崔居儉為尚書右丞。 On renchen Cui Juyin moved from acting to full right secretariat vice director.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 1 passage

Open chapter

壬寅，以尚書左丞崔居儉為工部尚書，以吏部侍郎王權為尚書左丞。 On renyin Cui Jujian became works minister and Wang Quan personnel vice minister became left secretariat director.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 57Volume 57 Book of Later Tang 33: Biographies 9: Gao Chongtao · 1 passage

Open chapter

其次李琪、崔居儉，中朝士族，富有文學，可擇而任之。」 Next are Li Qi and Cui Jujian, eminent clansmen of the central court, men of literary accomplishment who may be chosen and appointed."

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 127Volume 127 Book of Later Zhou 29: Biographies 7: Lu Wenji, Ma Yisun, He Ning, Su Yugui, Jing Fan · 3 passages

Open chapter

清泰初，中書闕輔相，末帝訪之於朝，左右曰：「臣見班行中所譽，當大拜者，姚顗、盧文紀、崔居儉耳。」 Early in Qingtai, with no vice-chancellor in the Secretariat, the Last Emperor asked the court whom to appoint. Attendants said, "Of those the ranks most commend for great promotion, I see Yao Hao, Lu Wenji, and Cui Jujian."

自後日責臺司定例，崔居儉謂南宮同列曰：「從昭序言語，是朝廷人總不解語也。 Afterward he daily demanded the Censorate fix precedent. Cui Jujian told Southern Palace colleagues, "To follow Zhaoxu's words is to say the whole court cannot speak properly.

眾聞居儉言，紛議稍息。 Hearing Jujian, the uproar slowly died down.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 143Volume 143: Treatises 5 Rites 2 · 1 passage

Open chapter

長興二年五月，尚書左丞崔居儉奏：「大祠、中祠差官行事，皇帝雖不預祭，其日亦不視朝，伏見車駕其日或出，於理不便。 In the fifth month of Changxing 2, Left Assistant Director Cui Jujian memorialized: "For great and medium sacrifices officials are assigned to perform the rite; although the emperor does not participate, he also does not hold court that day. We observe that the imperial carriage sometimes goes out on that day—in principle this is improper.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 144Volume 144: Treatises 6 Music 1 · 1 passage

Open chapter

〈（《五代會要》云：尚書兵部侍郎崔居儉撰。）〉 (According to the Five Dynasties Institutional Compendium, it was composed by Vice Minister of War Cui Jujian of the Secretariat.)〉