Cui Kuo (崔廓) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Cui Kuo as a family member, hermit, scholar, and teacher. This record brings together 8 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Cui Kuo	崔廓	Cui Kuo
Surname	Cui	崔	Cui
Surname	Cui	崔	Cuī
Personal name	Cui Kuo	崔廓	Cui Kuo
Personal name	Cui Kuo	崔廓	Cuī Kuò
Given	Kuo	廓	Kuo
Given	Kuo	廓	Kuò
Courtesy name	Shixuan	士玄	Shixuan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Family Member
Hermit
Scholar
Teacher
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Place: at home / 家 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大業中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 605 · End: AD 618
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Age

Age: 80 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大業中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 605 · End: AD 618
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 及士謙死 · Western Year: AD 588
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Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 618 · Source Date: Text: 史臣曰
Explicit event contextual date · suishu:077:s0254
Source Date: Text: 大業中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 605 · End: AD 618
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Family

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Child of Cui Ziyuan (子元)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Parent of Cui Ze (崔賾)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Mother of Cui Kuo
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Spouse of Mother of Cui Ze
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage

Career and standing

Label: village aide / 裡佐
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Status: recluse · Label: ample withdrawal / 肥遁 · Action: entered
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Status: declined-office · Action: refused-summons
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Places and affiliations

Place: Anping, Boling Commandery / 博陵安平
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Works and attributed material

Work: biography of Li Shiqian / 傳 · Relation: author
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Work: treatise on principles of law and nomenclature / 刑名之理 · Relation: author
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Events and relationships

Kind: personal · Role: subject · Action: fled into mountains after humiliation
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Kind: personal · Role: subject · Action: withdrew-after-humiliation · Label: stirred by humiliation, came to be praised for ample withdrawal / 感於屈辱，遂以肥遁見稱
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Relation: friend-of · Person Id: Li Shiqian (李士謙)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: praised for ample withdrawal; achieved fame · Label: praised for ample withdrawal / 以肥遁見稱 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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Book of Sui, Chapter 77Volume 77 Biographies 42: Recluses · 8 passages

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崔廓子賾 Cui Kuo's son Ze

崔廓，字士玄，博陵安平人也。 Cui Kuo, styled Shixuan, was a native of Anping in Boling Commandery.

廓少孤貧而母賤，由是不為邦族所齒。 Kuo was orphaned young and poor, and his mother was of low status; for this reason the clan and local community did not regard him as their equal.

與郡李士謙為忘言之友，每相往來，時稱崔、李。 With Li Shiqian of the commandery he was a friend who needed no words, visiting each other constantly; in their day they were called Cui and Li.

及士謙死，廓哭之慟，為之作傳，輸之秘府。 When Shiqian died, Kuo mourned him bitterly, composed a biography for him, and submitted it to the Imperial Archives.

士謙妻盧氏寡居，每有家事，輒令人諮廓取定。 Shiqian's widow, Lady Lu, whenever there was a household matter would have someone consult Kuo for a decision.

郭嘗著論，言刑名之理，其義甚精，文多不載。 Kuo once wrote a treatise on the principles of law and nomenclature; though its argument was exceedingly fine, most of the work was never preserved.

崔廓感於屈辱，遂以肥遁見稱，祖浚文籍之美，足以克隆先構，父子雖動靜殊方，其于成名一也，美哉！ Cui Kuo, stirred by humiliation, came to be praised for his ample withdrawal; Zujun's literary brilliance was sufficient to continue and enlarge the ancestral achievement—father and son, though active and still in different directions, in achieving fame were one; how fine!