Overview
The translated histories identify Cui Ze as a family member, historian, named individual, and official. This record brings together 34 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 Ze | 崔賾 | Cui Ze |
| Surname | Cui | 崔 | Cuī |
| Surname | Cui | 崔 | Cui |
| Personal name | Cui Ze | 崔賾 | Cui Ze |
| Personal name | Cui Zujun | 崔祖浚 | Cuī Zǔjùn |
| Personal name | Cui Zujun | 崔祖浚 | Cui Zujun |
| Given | Ze | 賾 | Ze |
| Personal name | Ze | 賾 | Ze |
| Courtesy name | Zujun | 祖浚 | Zujun |
| Given | Zujun | 祖浚 | Zǔjùn |
| Personal name | Zujun | 祖浚 | Zǔjùn |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · beishi:088:s0268
Roles
- Family Member
- Historian
- Named Individual
- Official
- Scholar
- Writer
Life and dates
Death
- Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宇文化及之弑帝也…卒于彭城 · Western Year: AD 618Explicit · beishi:088:s0183
- Place: Pengcheng / 彭城 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宇文化及之弑帝後 · Western Year: AD 618Explicit · suishu:077:s0165
Age
- Age: 69 · Reckoning: suiExplicit · suishu:077:s0165
- Years: 69 · Reckoning: suiExplicit · beishi:088:s0183
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 613Explicit · beishi:088:s0179
- Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 613Explicit event contextual date · suishu:077:s0161
- Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 609Explicit · beishi:088:s0173
- Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Western Year: AD 616Explicit · beishi:088:s0181
- Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Western Year: AD 616Explicit event contextual date · suishu:077:s0163
- Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 618 · Source Date: Text: 史臣曰Explicit event contextual date · suishu:077:s0254
- Source Date: Text: 大業五年 · Western Year: AD 609Explicit event contextual date · suishu:077:s0156
- Source Date: Text: 大業四年 · Western Year: AD 608Explicit · beishi:088:s0158, suishu:077:s0144
- Source Date: Text: 論曰 · Western Interval: Start: AD 386 · End: AD 618Uncertain · beishi:088:s0268
- Source Date: Text: 開皇初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 590Explicit · suishu:077:s0105
- Source Date: Text: 開皇初 · Western Year: AD 581Explicit · beishi:088:s0111
Family
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- Child of Cui Kuo (崔廓)Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
- Child of Cui Kuo (崔廓)Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
- Child of Cui Kuo (崔廓)Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
- Child of Mother of Cui ZeKinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
- Child of Mother of Cui ZeKinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Career and standing
- Label: Chief Secretary to the Prince of Yue / 越王長史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 613Explicit · suishu:077:s0161
- Label: Attendant of the Imperial Diary / 起居舍人 · Action: appointedExplicit · suishu:077:s0143
- Label: Attendant / 舍人 · Action: appointedExplicit · suishu:077:s0141
- Label: Chief Secretary of the Eagle-Flying Guard / 鷹揚長史 · Action: appointedExplicit · suishu:077:s0159
- Label: Collator / 校書郎 · Action: appointedExplicit · suishu:077:s0105
- Label: Director of Harmonization / 協律郎 · Action: appointedExplicit · suishu:077:s0106
- Label: Reader to the Princes of Henan and Yuzhang / 侍讀 · Action: appointedExplicit · suishu:077:s0108
- Label: Staff Secretary / 記室參軍 · Action: appointedExplicit · suishu:077:s0109
- Label: Supervisor of the Heir Apparent's Fast / 太子齋帥 · Action: appointedExplicit · suishu:077:s0141
- Label: Attendant Gentleman / 舍人 · Action: heldExplicit · beishi:088:s0272
- Label: Chief Administrator to the Prince of Yue / 越王長史 · Action: heldExplicit · beishi:088:s0179
- Label: Chief Clerk of the Soaring Hawk Command / 鷹揚長史 · Action: heldExplicit · beishi:088:s0176
- Label: Collator / 校書郎 · Action: heldExplicit · beishi:088:s0112
- Label: Director of Harmonization / 協律郎 · Action: heldExplicit · beishi:088:s0112
- Label: Imperial Diarist / 起居舍人 · Action: heldExplicit · beishi:088:s0274
- Label: Master of the Crown Prince's Fast / 太子齋帥 · Action: heldExplicit · beishi:088:s0272
- Label: Recorder of the Headquarters / 記室參軍 · Action: heldExplicit · beishi:088:s0116
- Label: Compiler / 著作郎 · Action: refusedExplicit · beishi:088:s0182, suishu:077:s0164
Places and affiliations
- Place: Boling (by lineage) / 博陵Strongly inferred · suishu:077:s0092, suishu:077:s0103
Learning and skills
- Credential: top of policy examination / 射策高第 · Action: earnedExplicit · suishu:077:s0105
- Skill: letters / literary composition / 文籍 · Level: excellentExplicit · beishi:088:s0268
- Skill: literary composition / 文籍 · Level: renownedExplicit · suishu:077:s0254
Works and attributed material
- Work: Comprehensive Records of Notable Knowledge / 洽聞志 · Relation: authorExplicit · suishu:077:s0167
- Work: Record of Broad Learning / 洽聞志 · Relation: authorExplicit · beishi:088:s0185
- Work: Record of Four Categories through Eight Dynasties / 八代四科志 · Relation: authorExplicit · beishi:088:s0185
- Work: Record of the Eastern Expedition / 東征記 · Relation: authorExplicit · beishi:088:s0178, suishu:077:s0160
- Work: Records of the Four Categories across Eight Dynasties / 八代四科志 · Relation: authorExplicit · suishu:077:s0167
- Work: Gazetteer of the Realm / 區宇圖志 · Relation: compilerExplicit · beishi:088:s0173
- Work: Geographic Records / 區宇圖志 · Relation: compilerExplicit · suishu:077:s0156
- Explicit · beishi:088:s0135, beishi:088:s0136, beishi:088:s0137, beishi:088:s0138, beishi:088:s0139, beishi:088:s0140, beishi:088:s0141, beishi:088:s0142, beishi:088:s0143, beishi:088:s0144, beishi:088:s0145, beishi:088:s0146, beishi:088:s0147, beishi:088:s0148, beishi:088:s0149, beishi:088:s0150, beishi:088:s0151, beishi:088:s0152, beishi:088:s0153, beishi:088:s0154, beishi:088:s0155, beishi:088:s0156, beishi:088:s0157
Events and relationships
- Kind: scholarly · Role: author · Action: continued-ancestral-achievement · Label: literary brilliance sufficient to continue and enlarge the ancestral achievement / 文籍之美，足以克隆先構Explicit · suishu:077:s0254
- Kind: military-diplomatic · Role: pacifier · Action: pacified Gaoyang and Xiangguo; 800+ surrenderedExplicit · suishu:077:s0162
- Kind: examination · Role: candidate · Action: placed-at-topExplicit · beishi:088:s0111
- Kind: liaodong-campaign · Role: officerExplicit · beishi:088:s0176, beishi:088:s0177
- Kind: pacification · Role: envoyExplicit · beishi:088:s0180
- Explicit · suishu:077:s0254
- Relation: friend-of · Person Id: Yuan Shan (元善)Explicit · beishi:088:s0184
- Relation: friend-of · Person Id: Liu Bi (柳䛒)Explicit · beishi:088:s0184
- Relation: client-of · Person Id: Prince of Yuzhang (豫章王)Explicit · beishi:088:s0115, beishi:088:s0270
- Relation: client-of · Person Id: Crown Prince Yuande (元德太子)
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: literary brilliance continued ancestral achievement; with father, achieved fame by different paths · Label: father and son, though active and still in different directions, in achieving fame were one / 父子雖動靜殊方，其于成名一也 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · suishu:077:s0254
- Assessment: literary excellence sufficient to continue the family hall and framework · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · beishi:088:s0268
- Assessment: 問一知二 — ask one and know two · Provenance: Mode: quoted-speech · Source Person Id: Yang Guang (楊廣)Explicit · beishi:088:s0172
- Kind: physical-description · Statement: short in stature; gifted with eloquenceExplicit · suishu:077:s0104
References in the histories
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