Ancient China · Confucian Disciple

Gao Chai 高柴

Gāo Chái

Attested BC 521 - BC 450

Passages
2
Chapters
2
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Gao Chai as a philosopher, scholar, and student. This record brings together 2 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Gao Chai 高柴 Gāo Chái
Personal name Gao Chai 高柴
Personal Gao Chai Gāo Chái

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Philosopher
  • Scholar
  • Student

Life and dates

Attested activity

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: exemplary filial figure invoked in Household Admonitions · Provenance: Mode: quoted-document · Source Person Id: Yan Yanzhi (顏延年)
    Explicit · songshu:073:s0087
  • Assessment: filial exemplar under the sage's teaching · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liangshu:047:s0274

References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 47Volume 47: Filial Acts · 1 passage
Book of Song, Chapter 73Volume 73 Biographies 33: Yan Yanzhi · 1 passage