Cui Yi (崔沂) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Cui Yi as an editor, judge, and official. This record brings together 15 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Cui Yi	崔沂	Cui Yi
Personal	Cui Yi	崔沂
Personal name	Cui Yi	崔沂	Cui Yi
Courtesy name	Derun	德潤	Derun
Title	Vice Minister of Revenue	戶部侍郎
Given name	Yi	沂	Yi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0021
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:147:s0004

Roles

Editor
Judge
Official

Life and dates

Death

Place: Longmen villa / 龍門之別墅 · Age: Value: 70 · As: over
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0049

Age

Stated Age: 70 · Reckoning: over · Context: at death
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0049

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 龍德元年二月己卯 · Regnal Year: 1 · Lunar Month: 2 · Sexagenary Day: 己卯 · Western Year: AD 921
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:010:s0073
Source Date: Text: 昭宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 888 · End: AD 904
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:068:s0026
Source Date: Text: 貞明中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 915 · End: AD 921
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:068:s0042
Source Date: Text: 開平三年十一月 · Western Year: AD 909
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0004
Source Date: Text: 開平中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 907 · End: AD 911
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:068:s0031

Family

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Sibling of Cui Hong (崔沆)
Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger · Subject Role: younger-brother · Object Role: elder-brother
Child of Cui Xuan (崔鉉)
Kinship Term: youngest son / 幼子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Subject Birth Order: 99
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: Deputy Protector-General of the Western Capital / 西京副留守 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 貞明中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 915 · End: AD 921
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0042
Label: Director of the Censorate / 御史司憲 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0030
Label: Left Vice Director / 左丞 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0046, jiuwudaishi:068:s0047
Label: Minister of Rites / 禮部尚書 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0041
Label: Vice Minister of Revenue / 戶部侍郎 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0004
Labels: Rites Minister / 禮部尚書, Western Capital deputy defender / 西都副留守, overseer of the directorate office / 兼判尚書省事 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:010:s0073
Label: Junior Tutor of the Heir Apparent / 太子少傅 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0050
Status: retirement · Action: entered
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0048
Label: demotion to Defender of Shizhou / 謫石州司馬 · Action: suffered
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0046

Places and affiliations

Label: Later Liang / 梁 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:147:s0004

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0025

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Kou Yanqing (寇彥卿) · Quoted: true
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0033, jiuwudaishi:068:s0034, jiuwudaishi:068:s0035, jiuwudaishi:068:s0036
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Status: quoted · Summary: requested casting one branch seal for the Western Capital directorate · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Cui Yi (崔沂)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:010:s0073
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Other Person Id: Zhang Quanyi (張全義)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0044

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: prosecutor · Action: impeached · Other Person Id: Kou Yanqing (寇彥卿) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 907 · End: AD 911
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0033, jiuwudaishi:068:s0039
Kind: administrative · Role: compiler · Action: revised-statutes · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平三年十一月 · Western Year: AD 909
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0004

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: stern integrity in upholding the law · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0040
Assessment: stern uprightness; model for gentry · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0174
Item: branch seal of the directorate office / 尚書省分司印一面 · Relation: requested-casting
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:010:s0073, jiuwudaishi:010:s0074

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:147:s0004

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 10Volume 10 Book of Later Liang 10: Later Emperors Annals 3 · 1 passage

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己卯，禮部尚書、充西都副留守兼判尚書省事崔沂奏：「西京都省，凡有公事奏聞，常須借印施行，伏請鑄尚事省分司印一面。」 On jimao Cui Yi of Rites memorialized: "The Western Capital directorate must borrow seals for public business; please cast a branch seal for the directorate office."

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 13 passages

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崔沂， Cui Yi,

〈（《新唐書·宰相世係表》：沂，字德潤。）〉 (The New Book of Tang's tables of chief ministers give his style name as Derun.)〉

沂舉進士第，曆監察、補闕。 Yi passed the jinshi examination and served in succession as investigating censor and remonstrance official.

翌日，謁國相訴曰：「沂疏淺，不足以供詞翰之職。」 The next day he called on the chief minister and said, "I am too shallow a writer to hold a drafting post."

沂奏劾曰：「彥卿位是人臣，無專殺之理。 Yi submitted an impeachment memorial: "Yanqing is a subject of the throne and has no right to kill on his own authority.

梁祖惜彥卿，令沂以過失論，沂引鬥競律，以怙勢力為罪首，下手者減一等。 The Liang founder was reluctant to punish Yanqing and told Yi to treat the case as negligence. Yi cited the statute on brawling, naming abuse of power as the principal offense and reducing the penalty by one degree for those who carried out the act.

沂表入，責授彥卿遊擊將軍、左衛中郎將。 When Yi's memorial was received, Yanqing was demoted to general of the patrol and middle general of the Left Guard.

沂剛正守法，人士多之。 Yi's stern integrity in upholding the law won him wide admiration among the official class.

沂至府，客將白以副留守合行廷禮，沂曰：「張公官位至重，然尚帶府尹之名，不知副留守見尹之儀何如？」 When Yi arrived at headquarters, a staff officer told him that as deputy protector he was expected to perform court ceremony. Yi replied, "Lord Zhang's rank is immense, yet he still holds the title of prefect — I am not sure what protocol a deputy protector should follow in meeting a prefect?"

全義知之，遽引見沂，勞曰：「彼此有禮，俱老矣，勿相勞煩。」 Quanyi heard of this, summoned Yi at once, and said kindly, "Let us observe courtesy between equals — we are both old men; spare each other the formalities."

莊宗興復唐室，復用為左丞，判吏部尚書銓選司，坐累謫石州司馬。 When Zhuangzong restored the Tang, Yi was again appointed left vice director and placed in charge of the Ministry of Personnel's selection bureau; he was later demoted to defender of Shizhou on accumulated charges.