Cui Yuan (崔遠) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Cui Yuan as an official and statesman. This record brings together 3 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Cui Yuan	崔遠	Cui Yuan
Personal name	Cui Yuan	崔遠	Cui Yuan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution · Place: White Horse Station / 白馬驛 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 是歲四月 · Western Year: AD 906
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾寧五年崔遠在中書 · Western Year: AD 898
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Source Date: Text: 昭宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 888 · End: AD 904
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Source Date: Text: 是歲四月 · Western Year: AD 906
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Career and standing

Label: in the Secretariat / 在中書 · Action: held
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Label: Right Vice Director / 右僕射 · Action: held
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Label: demoted without crime and executed / 無罪貶…賜死 · Action: executed · Authority Person Id: Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 是歲四月 · Western Year: AD 906
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Events and relationships

Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Du Xiao (杜曉)
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References in the histories

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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 · 1 passage

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崔遠在中書，奏為萬年尉，充集賢校理，以親舅獨孤損方在廊廟，避嫌不赴職。）〉 Cui Yuan, then in the Secretariat, recommended him as defender of Wannian and collator in the Hall of Assembled Worthies, but Miao declined the posts because his maternal uncle Dugu Sun was serving in the chief councils and he wished to avoid suspicion.)〉

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 35Volume 35 Biographies 15: Zhan Wenyu, Yang She, Zhang Ce, Zhao Guangfeng, Xue Yiju, Su Xun · 2 passages

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是歲四月，彗出西北，掃文昌、軒轅、天市，宰相柳璨希梁王旨，歸其譴於大臣，於是左僕射裴樞、獨孤損、右僕射崔遠、守太保致仕趙崇、兵部侍郎王贊、工部尚書王溥、吏部尚書陸扆皆以無罪貶，同日賜死於白馬驛。 That fourth month a comet swept the northwest heavens; Liu Can pleased Liang by blaming the ministers; Pei Shu, Dugu Sun, Cui Yuan, Zhao Chong, Wang Zan, Wang Pu, and Lu Yi were demoted without crime and executed the same day at White Horse Station.

崔遠判戶部，又辟巡官，或謂曉曰：「嵇康死，子紹自廢不出仕，山濤以物理責之，乃仕。 Cui Yuan as revenue commissioner took him again; someone told Xiao, “When Ji Kang died, his son Shao would not serve until Shan Tao rebuked him on principle.