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Cui Qingyuan was a Staff Officer and Envoy.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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- Polity Southern Qi 齊 · Relation Served
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- Item trousers, jackets, and belt ornaments 褶絡帶 · Relation Received
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Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 45Volume 45 Biographies 26: The Imperial Clan · 12 passages
二年，虜主元宏寇壽春，遣使呼城內人，遙昌遣參軍崔慶遠、朱選之詣宏。
In the second year the Northern Wei ruler Yuan Hong attacked Shouchun and sent envoys to summon the city's defenders; Yaochang sent his staff officers Cui Qingyuan and Zhu Xuanzhi to meet Hong.
慶遠曰：「旌蓋飄颻，遠涉淮、泗，風塵慘烈，無乃上勞？」
Qingyuan said, "Your banners and canopies flutter in the wind on this long march across the Huai and Si—the dust and hardship are severe. Is this not too great a burden for Your Majesty?"
慶遠曰：「川境旣殊，遠勞軒駕。
Qingyuan said, "Our river realms are already different, yet Your Majesty's carriage has been troubled from afar.
慶遠曰：「君包荒之德，本施北政，未承來議，無所含瑕。」
Qingyuan said, "Your Lordship's virtue of embracing all within the waste is shown in governing the north; we have not yet received your embassy—there is no flaw to harbor."
慶遠曰：「廢昏立明，古今同揆。
Qingyuan said, "Deposing the benighted and establishing the enlightened—ancient and modern share the same standard.
慶遠曰：「七王同惡，皆伏管、蔡之誅，其餘列蕃二十餘國，內升清階，外典方牧。
Qingyuan said, "Seven princes shared in the same crime and all suffered punishment like Guan and Cai; the rest, more than twenty feudal domains, rose within to high office and governed the regions without.
慶遠曰：「見可而進，知難而退，聖人奇兵。
Qingyuan said, "Seeing what may be done and advancing, knowing difficulty and withdrawing—that is the sage's extraordinary weapon.
慶遠曰：「和親則二國交歡，蒼生再賴；
Qingyuan said, "If there is peace by marriage, the two states will rejoice together and the common people will again be spared;
宏設酒及羊炙雜果，又謂慶遠曰：「聽卿主克黜凶嗣，不違忠孝。
Hong set out wine, roasted mutton, and assorted fruits, and again said to Qingyuan, "I hear your sovereign was able to remove the vicious heir without violating loyalty and filial piety.
慶遠答曰：「成王有亞聖之賢，故周公得輔而相之。
Qingyuan replied, "King Cheng had the virtue of a near-sage; therefore the Duke of Zhou was able to assist and serve as his minister.
慶遠曰：「此非其類，乃可言宣帝立與不立義當云何。
Qingyuan said, "That is not the same case; one may speak only of whether establishing Emperor Xuan was right—what ought the principle to be?
明日引軍向城東，遣道登道人進城內施衆僧絹五百匹，慶遠、選之各褶絡帶。
The next day he led his army toward the east of the city, sent the religious adept Daodeng into the city to bestow five hundred bolts of silk on the monks, and gave Qingyuan and Xuanzhi each trousers, jackets, and belt ornaments.