Sui and Tang · Ritual Official

Director of Court Music 太常卿

Taichang Qing

Attested AD 618 - AD 907

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Director of Court Music was a Ritual Official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 618 to AD 907 唐
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 11, passages 58-60

Career and standing

Director of Court Music 太常卿
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 11, passage 58

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 11, passage 58

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Mode quoted
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 11, passage 60

Events and relationships

Inspected tortoise
Ritual · Participant · With Diviner-in-Chief (太卜令)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 11, passages 59, 66-67
Presided at day selection
Ritual · Officiant · At outside the southern gate of the temple 廟南門之外
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 11, passages 57-58

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 11, passage 58

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 11Volume 11 Treatises 1: Rites and Music 1 · 6 passages

太常卿立門東，太卜正占者立門西，卜正奠龜於席西首，灼龜之具在龜北，乃執龜立席東，北向。 The Director of Court Music stands east of the gate; the Chief Diviner, who performs the divination, stands west of the gate. The diviner places the tortoise at the west head of the mat; implements for burning the tortoise are north of the tortoise; then, holding the tortoise, he stands east of the mat, facing north.

太卜令進受龜，詣卿示高，卿受視已，令受龜，少退俟命。 The Diviner-in-Chief advances to receive the tortoise, goes to the Director to show the height. the Director receives and inspects it. the Diviner-in-Chief receives the tortoise, steps back slightly, and awaits orders.

卿曰：「皇帝以某日祗祀於某。」 The Director says: "The emperor will on a certain day reverently sacrifice to a certain [deity]."

令進，受龜，示卿。 The Diviner-in-Chief advances. receives the tortoise, and shows the Director.

卿受，反之。 The Director receives it and returns it.

令復位，東向，占之，不釋龜，進告於卿曰：「某日從。」 The Diviner-in-Chief returns to his place. faces east, divines, without releasing the tortoise, advances and reports to the Director: "A certain day is favorable."