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Overview Cui Zhuo was an official and Scholar.
Identity Historical · Male
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Ziwen
子文
Life and dates Death AD 946 改太子賓客分司西京以卒
At western capital 西京
Attested activity Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
Places and affiliations At Anping in Shenzhou 深州安平 Assessments and attributes References in the histories
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 55 Volume 55 Miscellaneous Biographies 35: Liu Xu, Lu Wenji, Ma Yinxun, Yao Yi, Liu Yue, Ma Gao, Cui Jujian, Cui Zhuo, Li Yi · 14 passages
崔棁，字子文，深州安平人也。
Cui Zhuo, courtesy name Ziwen, was a native of Anping in Shenzhou.
棁少好學，頗涉經史，工於文辭。
Zhuo loved learning from youth, read widely in the classics and histories, and wrote with skill.
棁性至孝，其父涿病，不肯服藥，曰：「死生有命，何用藥為？」
Zhuo was profoundly filial. When his father Zhuo fell ill, he refused medicine and said: "Life and death are fated. What use is medicine?"
棁屢進醫藥，不納。
Zhuo repeatedly brought physicians and medicine, but his father would not accept them.
每賓客問疾者，棁輒迎拜門外，泣涕而告之，涿終不服藥而卒。
Whenever guests came to inquire after his father's health, Zhuo would meet them at the gate with bows and tears. The father never took medicine and died.
棁居喪哀毀，服除，唐明宗以為監察御史，不拜，逾年再命，乃拜。
Zhuo mourned so deeply that he was nearly wasted away. When mourning ended, Mingzong appointed him attending censor, but he declined. More than a year later a second appointment came, and he accepted.
初，棁為學士，嘗草制，為宰相桑維翰所改。
Early in his career as academician, Zhuo drafted an edict that Chancellor Sang Weihan altered.
棁以唐故事學士草制有所改者當罷職，乃引經據爭之，維翰頗不樂。
Zhuo cited Tang precedent that an academician whose draft was altered should leave office, and argued the point from the classics. Weihan was deeply displeased.
而棁少專於文學，不能蒞事，維翰乃命棁知貢舉，棁果不能舉職。
Zhuo had specialized in literature since youth and could not manage affairs. Weihan therefore assigned him charge of the examination, and Zhuo proved unable to perform the duty.
棁既受命，往見維翰，維翰素貴，嚴尊而語簡，謂棁曰：「孔英來矣。」
After receiving his commission Zhuo went to see Weihan, who was always honored, stern, and brief in speech. He told Zhuo: "Kong Ying has come."
棁不諭其意，以謂維翰以孔英為言，乃考英及第，物議大以為非，即罷學幹，拜尚書左丞，遷太常卿。
Zhuo misunderstood and thought Weihan meant to warn him against Kong Ying. He passed Ying in the examination instead, to widespread outrage. Zhuo was removed from the Hanlin Academy, made left assistant director in the Ministry of State Affairs, and transferred to director of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices.
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。
Ritual and music had been lost since the chaos at the end of Tang. Zhuo worked with Censor-in-Chief Dou Zhengu, Vice Minister Lü Qi, Vice Minister Zhang Yun, and others to draft the regulations.
禮畢，高祖大悅，賜梲金帛，羣臣左右覩者皆嗟歎之。
When the rites ended, Gaozu was delighted and rewarded Zhuo with gold and silk. Every official who witnessed it sighed in admiration.
棁以風痹改太子賓客分司西京以卒。
Zhuo was reassigned on account of rheumatism to guest of the heir apparent with a separate commission in the western capital, where he died.