Cui Rong (崔融) | 24 Histories

Overview

Cui Rong was an official and Writer.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Ancheng	安成	Ancheng
Posthumous name	Wen	文	Wen

Life and dates

Death

Died after composing lament
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 26
died before Qiao's late career
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 123, passage 87

Age

Years 54 · At death
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 27

Attested activity

AD 684 to AD 698 中宗為太子時
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 114, passage 4
AD 680 to AD 706 中與崔融、蘇味道齊名
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 123, passage 87
AD 705 易之誅
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 114, passage 21
AD 690 to AD 705 武后
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 114, passage 5

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Ancestor of Cui Ju (巨)
grandson 孫 · 2 generations
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 33
Ancestor of Cui Neng (能)
great-grandson 曾孫 · 3 generations
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 85
Ancestor of Cui Cong (從)
great-grandson 曾孫 · 3 generations
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 34
Parent of Cui Qiao (翹)
son 子
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 30
Parent of Cui Yuxi (禹錫)
son 子
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 30

Kinship Role sons · Count 6
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 30

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Career and standing

Assistant Compiler 著作佐郎
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 7
Attendant of the Phoenix Pavilion 鳳閣舍人
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 7
lecturing attendant 侍讀
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 4
Palace Gate Vice-Director 宮門丞
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 3
Right Historian 右史
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 7
Scholar of the Chongwen Hall 崇文館學士
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 3

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Vice-Director of the Directorate of Education 國子司業
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 22
Prefect of Yuanzhou 袁州刺史
Demoted to
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 21
Prefect of Weizhou 衛州刺史
Posthumously appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 28
Viscount of Qinghe 清河縣子
Enfeoffed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 23
posthumous name Wen 諡曰文
Granted
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 28
Suffered
Demotion
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 21

Places and affiliations

Tang 唐
Relation Served
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 114, passage 4
Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Associated with
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 123, passage 87
At Quanjie, Qizhou 齊州全節
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 1

Learning and skills

Earned
Credential Eight Subjects examination, top honors 八科高第
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 2

Works and attributed material

Eulogy on the Precious Diagram Emerging from the Luo 洛出寶圖頌
Relation Author
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 25
Lament for Empress Wu 武后哀冊
Relation Author
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 26
Veritable Records of Empress Wu 武后實錄
Relation Compiler
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 23
Memorial · Author
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passages 8-18

Events and relationships

Relation Client of · Person Zhang Yizhi (張易之)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 20
Relation Patron of · Person Du Shenyan (杜審言)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 29

Assessments and attributes

Assessment prose ornate and peerless · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 24

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 123, passage 87

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History

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 114Volume 114 Biographies 39: Cui Rong and Descendent Cong, Descendent Neng, Neng's Nephew: Shen You, Neng's Nephew an Qian, Neng's Son: Yan Ceng, Xu Yanbo, Su Weidao, Dou Lu Qin Wang · 9 passages

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崔融，字安成，齊州全節人。 Cui Rong, whose style name was Ancheng, was a native of Quanjie in Qizhou.

中宗為太子時，選侍讀，典東朝章疏。 While Zhongzong was still crown prince, Rong was selected as a lecturing attendant and oversaw memorials for the Eastern Palace.

武后幸嵩高，見融銘《啟母碣》，歎美之。 When Empress Wu visited Mount Song, she read Rong's inscription on the Qi Mother stele and praised it warmly.

時有司議關市，行人盡征之，融上疏謂：「《周官》九賦，其七曰關市。 When officials proposed levying market tolls at the passes on all travelers without exception, Rong submitted a memorial arguing: "The Offices of Zhou lists nine levies; the seventh is the pass-market levy.

張易之兄弟頗延文學士，融與李嶠、蘇味道、麟台少監王紹宗降節佞附。 Zhang Yizhi and his brothers cultivated literary men, and Rong joined Li Jiao, Su Weidao, and Wang Shaozong, vice-director of the Lin Terrace, in abasing themselves to flatter and attach to them.

易之誅，貶袁州刺史。 After Yizhi was executed, Rong was demoted to prefect of Yuanzhou.

融為文華婉，當時未有輩者。 Rong's prose was ornate and graceful, and in his day he had no peer.

贈衛州刺史，諡曰文。 He was posthumously appointed prefect of Weizhou, with the posthumous name Wen.

膳部員外郎杜審言為融所獎引，為服緦麻。 Du Shenyan, vice-director of the Board of Provisions, whom Rong had mentored, wore three-month mourning for him.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 123Volume 123 Biographies 48: Li, Xiao, Lu, Wei, Zhao, He · 1 passage

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然其仕前與王勃、楊盈川接，中與崔融、蘇味道齊名，晚諸人沒，而為文章宿老，一時學者取法焉。 In early career he moved in the circle of Wang Bo and Yang Yingchuan; in mid-career he ranked with Cui Rong and Su Weidao; in later years, after the others had died, he became the elder master of letters whom scholars of the age took as their model.