Cui Zhuo (崔棁) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Cui Zhuo as a courtier, official, and scholar. This record brings together 9 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Cui Zhuo	崔棁	Cui Zhuo
Title	Academician Expositor-in-Chief, Vice Minister of War, and acting supervisor of the examinations	翰林學士承旨、兵部侍郎、權知貢舉
Surname	Cui	崔	Cui
Personal	Cui Zhuang	崔棁
Personal name	Cui Zhuo	崔棁	Cui Zhuo
Given	Zhi	棁	Zhuo
Surname		崔	Cui
Given		棁	Zhuo

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:051:s0105
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:144:s0078, jiuwudaishi:148:s0015
Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:042:s0058

Roles

Courtier
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 晉天福三年三月 · Western Year: AD 938
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0015
Source Date: Text: 晉天福五年 · Western Year: AD 940
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:144:s0075, jiuwudaishi:144:s0078, jiuwudaishi:144:s0134, jiuwudaishi:144:s0136
Source Date: Text: 長興中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 930 · End: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:051:s0105, jiuwudaishi:051:s0101
Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:042:s0058

Career and standing

Label: Director of Punishments; drafter of edicts / 都官郎中、知制誥 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0058
Label: Academician Expositor-in-Chief / 翰林學士承旨 · Action: held · Source Date: Text: 晉天福三年三月 · Western Year: AD 938
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0015
Label: acting supervisor of the examinations / 權知貢舉 · Action: held · Source Date: Text: 晉天福三年三月 · Western Year: AD 938
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0015
Label: Director of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices / 太常卿 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0078
Label: Hanlin Academician / 翰林學士 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:051:s0105
Label: Vice Minister of War / 兵部侍郎 · Action: held · Source Date: Text: 晉天福三年三月 · Western Year: AD 938
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0015

Places and affiliations

Label: Later Jin / 晉 · Relation: served
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0015

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Action: requested a search for unofficial histories since Xuanzong for compilation · Other Person Id: Xuanzong (宣宗) · Provenance: Mode: document · Speaker Person Id: Cui Zhuo (崔棁) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0058
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 其年秋 · Western Year: AD 940
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0080, jiuwudaishi:144:s0081, jiuwudaishi:144:s0082, jiuwudaishi:144:s0083, jiuwudaishi:144:s0084, jiuwudaishi:144:s0085, jiuwudaishi:144:s0086, jiuwudaishi:144:s0087, jiuwudaishi:144:s0088, jiuwudaishi:144:s0089, jiuwudaishi:144:s0090, jiuwudaishi:144:s0091, jiuwudaishi:144:s0092, jiuwudaishi:144:s0093, jiuwudaishi:144:s0094, jiuwudaishi:144:s0095, jiuwudaishi:144:s0096, jiuwudaishi:144:s0097, jiuwudaishi:144:s0098, jiuwudaishi:144:s0099, jiuwudaishi:144:s0100, jiuwudaishi:144:s0101, jiuwudaishi:144:s0102, jiuwudaishi:144:s0103, jiuwudaishi:144:s0104, jiuwudaishi:144:s0105, jiuwudaishi:144:s0106, jiuwudaishi:144:s0107, jiuwudaishi:144:s0108, jiuwudaishi:144:s0109, jiuwudaishi:144:s0110, jiuwudaishi:144:s0111, jiuwudaishi:144:s0112, jiuwudaishi:144:s0113, jiuwudaishi:144:s0114, jiuwudaishi:144:s0115, jiuwudaishi:144:s0116, jiuwudaishi:144:s0117, jiuwudaishi:144:s0118, jiuwudaishi:144:s0119, jiuwudaishi:144:s0120, jiuwudaishi:144:s0121, jiuwudaishi:144:s0122, jiuwudaishi:144:s0123, jiuwudaishi:144:s0124, jiuwudaishi:144:s0125, jiuwudaishi:144:s0126, jiuwudaishi:144:s0127, jiuwudaishi:144:s0128, jiuwudaishi:144:s0129, jiuwudaishi:144:s0130, jiuwudaishi:144:s0131
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Emperor of Jin (Tianfu) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 晉天福三年三月 · Western Year: AD 938
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0015, jiuwudaishi:148:s0016, jiuwudaishi:148:s0017, jiuwudaishi:148:s0018, jiuwudaishi:148:s0019, jiuwudaishi:148:s0020, jiuwudaishi:148:s0021, jiuwudaishi:148:s0022

Events and relationships

Kind: administrative · Role: commissioned-official · Action: drafted-court-assembly-rites-and-dances · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 940
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0078, jiuwudaishi:144:s0080, jiuwudaishi:144:s0135
Kind: political · Role: memorialist · Action: proposed-appeal-review-for-failed-candidates · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 晉天福三年三月 · Western Year: AD 938
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0015, jiuwudaishi:148:s0018, jiuwudaishi:148:s0023

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: praised by ministers and onlookers for restored rites · Provenance: Mode: narrative
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0145
Item: gold and silk / 金帛 · Relation: bestowed-upon · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 其年冬至 · Western Year: AD 940
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:144:s0145

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0015

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 1 passage

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甲子，都官郎中、知制誥崔棁上言，請搜訪宣宗已來野史，以備編修，從之。 On jiazi Cui Zhuang asked to gather unofficial histories since Xuanzong for compilation, and it was approved.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 51Volume 51 Book of Later Tang 27: Biographies 3: Imperial Family · 1 passage

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從榮乃奏刑部侍郎劉讚為王傅，又奏翰林學士崔棁為元帥府判官。 Congrong then nominated Vice Minister of Justice Liu Zan as his tutor and Hanlin Academician Cui Zhuo as chief administrator of the marshal's headquarters.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 144Volume 144: Treatises 6 Music 1 · 5 passages

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其正冬朝會禮節、樂章、二舞行列等事宜，差太常卿崔棁、御史中丞竇貞固、刑部侍郎呂琦、禮部侍郎張允與太常寺官一一詳定。 Concerning the mid-winter court assembly ritual procedures, hymns, formations of the two dances, and related matters, Director of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices Cui Zhi, Vice Censor-in-Chief Dou Zhengu, Vice Minister of Justice Lü Qi, Vice Minister of Rites Zhang Yun, and officials of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices are commissioned to determine each point in detail.

其年秋，棁等具述制度上奏云： That autumn, Zhi and his colleagues submitted a full account of the regulations, stating:

〈（《歐陽史·崔棁傳》：高祖詔太常復文武二舞，詳定正冬朝會禮及樂章。 (Ouyang's History [New History of the Five Dynasties], Biography of Cui Zhuo: Gaozu ordered the Court of Imperial Sacrifices to restore the civil and military dances and to fix in detail the rites of the winter court assembly and the music sections.

自唐末之亂，禮樂制度亡失已久，棁與御史中丞竇貞固、刑部侍郎呂琦、禮部侍郎張允等草定之。 Since the chaos at the end of Tang, ritual and music institutions had long been lost. Zhuo, together with Vice Censor-in-Chief Dou Zhengu, Vice Minister of Justice Lü Qi, Vice Minister of Rites Zhang Yun, and others, drafted regulations for them.

禮畢，高祖大悅，賜棁金帛，群臣左右睹者皆贊嘆之。 When the rites were complete, Gaozu was greatly pleased and bestowed gold and silk on Zhuo. All the ministers and onlookers praised and marveled at it.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 148Volume 148: Treatises 10 Selection of Officials · 2 passages

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晉天福三年三月，翰林學士承旨、兵部侍郎、權知貢舉崔棁奏：「臣謬蒙眷渥，叨掌文衡，實憂庸懦之材，不副搜羅之旨，敢不揣摩頑鈍，杜絕阿私，上則顯陛下求賢，次則使平人得路。 In the third month of Tianfu 3 of Jin, Cui Zhuo, Academician Expositor-in-Chief, Vice Minister of War, and acting supervisor of the examinations, wrote: "I have been favored beyond my deserts and now hold the literary scales in my hands. I fear that mediocre talent will fail Your Majesty's purpose of gathering the worthy, and I dare not fail to scrutinize the dull and shut out favoritism—first to show that Your Majesty truly seeks talent, and second so that ordinary men may still find a way forward.

每駁榜出後，則時有喧張，不自省循，但言屈塞，互相朋扇，各出言詞，或云主司不公，或云試官受賂，實慮上達聖聽，微臣無以自明，晝省夜思，臨深履薄。 Whenever the rejection list is posted, uproar follows at once. The failed candidates do not reflect on themselves but claim they were unfairly blocked; they incite one another and accuse the chief examiner of bias or the testing officials of taking bribes. I fear these charges will reach Your Majesty's ear, and I have no way to clear myself—by day I brood, by night I worry, as if standing at a cliff's edge on thin ice.