Cui Xuan (崔暹) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Cui Xuan as an aristocrat, courtier, judge, and official. This record brings together 74 passages from 9 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Cui Xuan	崔暹	Cui Xian
Title	Chief Inspector Cui	崔中尉
Surname	Cui	崔	Cuī
Surname	Cui	崔	Cui
Surname	Cui	崔
Personal name	Cui Xian	崔暹	Cui Xian
Personal	Cui Xian	崔暹	Cui Xian
Personal name	Cui Xian	崔暹	Cuī Xiān
Personal	Cui Xian	崔暹	Cuī Xiān
Title	Grand Minister of Ceremonial Cui	崔太常
Courtesy name	Jilun	季倫	Jìlún
Given name	Xian	暹	Xiān
Given	Xian	暹	Xian
Given	Xian	暹
Title		吏部
Title		廷尉
Given		暹	Xian

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · beiqishu:029:s0001, beiqishu:030:s0001, beiqishu:036:s0110, beiqishu:047:s0054, zhoushu:046:s0035
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · beiqishu:046:s0056

Roles

Aristocrat
Courtier
Judge
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Cause: illness / 疾 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十年 · Western Year: AD 559
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0080

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 世宗時 · Western Interval: Start: c. AD 547 · End: c. AD 549
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:049:s0131
Source Date: Text: 先是仲密與崔暹有隙 · Western Interval: Start: AD 534 · End: AD 543
Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0035, zhoushu:046:s0036
Source Date: Text: 十年 · Western Year: AD 559
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:030:s0080
Source Date: Text: 大同十一年 · Western Year: AD 545
Explicit event contextual date · zizhitongjian:159:s0003, zizhitongjian:159:s0003a, zizhitongjian:159:s0019a
Source Date: Text: 天保末 · Western Year: AD 559
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:030:s0077
Source Date: Text: 崔暹 · Western Interval: Start: AD 530 · End: AD 550
Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0110
Source Date: Text: 崔暹為御史中尉 · Western Interval: Start: AD 543 · End: AD 549
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:047:s0054
Source Date: Text: 武定中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 543 · End: AD 550
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:029:s0083, beiqishu:029:s0086
Source Date: Text: 武定初 · Western Year: AD 543
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:030:s0019
Source Date: Text: 興和二年後 · Western Year: AD 540
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:003:s0017
Source Date: Text: 顯祖 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 559
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:046:s0056, beiqishu:046:s0065
Source Date: Text: 高祖崩 · Western Year: AD 547
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:030:s0046

Family

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Kin of Cui Boqian (崔伯謙)
Kinship Term: clansman younger brother / 族弟 · Subject Role: younger-clansman · Object Role: elder-clansman · Line: paternal
Descendant of Cui Shi (崔寔)
Kinship Term: descendant / 後
Child of Cui Mu (崔穆)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Mother of Cui Xian
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Parent of Sister of Cui Xian
Kinship Term: sister / 妹 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: brother · Object Role: sister · Subject Relative Age: uncertain
Parent of Cui Dana (崔達拏)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Spouse of Mother of Cui Dana
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage
Sibling of Cui Mou (崔謀)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother

Kinship Role: brothers · Count: 2
Uncertain · beiqishu:030:s0052

Origins and identity

Label: leading house of the northern provinces / 北州著姓
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0002

Career and standing

Label: Right vice director / 右僕射 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天保末 · Western Year: AD 559
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0077
Label: Chief inspector / 御史中尉 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武定初 · Western Year: AD 543
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0019
Label: Vice Censor-in-Chief / 御史中尉 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 興和二年後 · Western Year: AD 540
Explicit · beiqishu:003:s0017
Label: Acting chief clerk to the chancellor / 兼丞相長史 · Action: appointed
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0007
Label: Chief clerk / 長史 · Action: appointed
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0005
Label: Deliberator of the grand marshalate / 開府諮議 · Action: appointed
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0006
Label: Director of Revenue / 度支尚書 · Action: appointed
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0046
Label: Director of the ministry of personnel / 吏部郎 · Action: appointed
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0012
Label: Grand minister of ceremonial / 太常卿 · Action: appointed
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0070
Label: Left vice director / 左丞 · Action: appointed
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0012
Label: Vice Director of the Secretariat / 僕射 · Action: appointed
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0046
Label: Commandant / 中尉 · Action: held
Explicit · zizhitongjian:159:s0019b
Label: Gentleman of the Ministry of Personnel / 吏部郎中 · Action: held
Explicit · zhoushu:046:s0035
Label: minister of justice / 廷尉 · Action: held
Explicit · beiqishu:046:s0056
Label: Ministry of Personnel gentleman / 吏部郎 · Action: held
Explicit · beiqishu:003:s0017
Label: Personnel Director / 吏部 · Action: held
Explicit · beiqishu:046:s0102
Title: Grand marshalate / 開府 · Action: posthumous
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0081
Status: exile · Action: entered · Place: Macheng / 馬城
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0068
Label: chained and taken to Jinyang on false rebellion charge / 鎖赴晉陽 · Action: arrested
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0069
Label: searched house / 搜暹家 · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Gao Yang (高洋)
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0066

Places and affiliations

Polity: Eastern Wei / 東魏 · Relation: served
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0019
Polity: Northern Qi / 北齊 · Relation: served
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0077
Place: Anping in Boling / 博陵安平
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0002

Learning and skills

Belief: Buddhism / 佛 · Relation: adherent-of
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0054, beiqishu:030:s0057

Works and attributed material

Work: Treatise on Buddha-nature / 佛性論 · Relation: claimed-author
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0057
Work: Linzhi Code / 麟趾格 · Relation: compiler
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0012
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Addressee Person Id: Gao Cheng (高澄)
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0017
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Addressee Person Id: Emperor Xiaojing (孝靜帝)
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0043

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: impeacher · Action: impeached officials · Other Person Ids: Sima Ziru (司馬子如), Yuan Xian (元羨), Murong Xian (慕容獻), Tan (坦), Kezhuhun Daoyuan (可朱渾道元)
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0026
Kind: political · Role: exile · Place: Macheng / 馬城
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0068
Relation: recommender-of · Person Id: Xing Shao (邢卲)
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0014
Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Gao Shen (高慎)
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0018

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: failings: grand talk and joking; false authorship; showing off son · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0056, beiqishu:030:s0061
Assessment: inwardly crafty and deceitful · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · zizhitongjian:159:s0019k
Assessment: knowing men / good judge of talent · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0019
Assessment: pure and upright without peer · Provenance: Mode: quoted-speech · Speaker Person Id: Gao Yang (高洋)
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0071
Assessment: upright in office and fearless toward the powerful · Assessor Person Id: Gao Huan (高歡) · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Source Person Id: Gao Huan (高歡)
Explicit · zizhitongjian:159:s0019a, zizhitongjian:159:s0019b, zizhitongjian:159:s0019c, zizhitongjian:159:s0019d, zizhitongjian:159:s0019e
Item: fine horse / 良馬 · Relation: bestowed · Other Person Id: Gao Huan (高歡)
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0036
Item: letters from Gao Huan and Gao Cheng / 高祖、世宗與暹書千餘紙 · Relation: possessed
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0066

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 3Volume 3 Annals 3: Emperor Wenxiang · 1 passage

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文襄乃奏吏部郎崔暹為御史中尉，糾劾權豪，無所縱捨，於是風俗更始，私枉路絕。 Gao Cheng then had Cui Xian of the Ministry of Personnel appointed Vice Censor-in-Chief; he impeached the powerful without sparing any, custom was renewed, and private wrongdoing and bribery ceased.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 29Volume 29 Biographies 21: Li Hun; Zi Zhan; Hun Dihui; Zuzi Gongxu; Li Yu; Di Jin; Zu Dixiao; Zheng Shuzu; Zi Yuande · 2 passages

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河間守崔謀恃其弟暹勢，從繪乞麋角鴿羽。 Administrator of Hejian Cui Mou relied on the power of his younger brother Xian and begged from Hui elk horns and pigeon feathers.

是時世宗使暹選司徒長史，暹薦繪，旣而不果，咸謂由此書。 At the time Gao Cheng had Xian select the chief clerk of the Minister over the Masses; Xian recommended Hui, but in the end it did not come to pass — all said it was because of this letter.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 30Volume 30 Biographies 22: Cui Xian; Gao Dezheng; Cui Ang · 48 passages

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崔暹高德政崔昂 Cui Xian; Gao Dezheng; Cui Ang

崔暹，字季倫，博陵安平人，漢尚書寔之後也，世為北州著姓。 Cui Xian, styled Jilun, was a man of Anping in Boling commandery, a descendant of Cui Shi, Han minister of works, and for generations a leading house of the northern provinces.

暹少為書生，避地渤海，依高乾，以妹妻乾弟慎。 In youth Xian was a student; he fled to Bohai and attached himself to Gao Gan, giving his sister in marriage to Gan's brother Shen.

慎後臨光州，啟暹為長史。 When Shen later governed Guangzhou, he had Xian appointed chief clerk.

高祖舉兵將入洛，留暹佐琛知後事。 When Gao Huan raised troops to enter Luoyang, he left Xian to assist Chen in managing affairs behind the lines.

暹親遇日隆，好薦人士。 Xian's personal favor grew day by day; he delighted in recommending men of talent.

言論之際，卲遂毀暹。 In the course of talk, Shao then slandered Xian.