Gao Zun 高遵

Other names

Family

• Kin of Gao Yun (高允)
  father's cousin 從祖兄 · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passages 85, 89
• Sibling of Gao Jiao (矯)
  elder brother 兄 · Paternal half siblings
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 83
• Child of Gao Ji (濟)
  son 子
  father 父
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 82
• Parent of Gao Yuanrong (元榮)
  son 子
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 116
• Spouse of Lady Ming (明氏)
  wife 妻
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 103
• Sibling of Gao Ciwen (次文)
  younger brother 弟 · Uncertain siblings
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 121

• Kinship Role elder brothers and agnates · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 83

Career and standing

• Attendant to the Prince of Lelang 樂浪王侍郎
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 88
• General Who Establishes Loyalty 立忠將軍
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 96
• Governor of Qizhou 齊州刺史
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 96
• Governor 臨州
  Held
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 102
• Secretariat official 中書
  Held
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 98
• Attendant of the Secretariat 中書侍郎
  Promoted
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 90

Places and affiliations

• Polity Northern Wei 北魏 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passages 88, 92, 98, 105, 107
• Polity Northern Wei 北魏 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · Book of Wei 95, passages 264, 268
• At Su in Bohai 勃海蓚
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 81
• At Chang'an 長安 · Relation Traveled to
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 91
• At Pingcheng 平城 · Relation Traveled to
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 85
• At Shandong 山東 · Relation Traveled to
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 98

Learning and skills

• literature and history 文史
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 90
• Skill writing and brushwork 筆札 · Level considerable
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 90

Works and attributed material

• Biography of Gao Zun in the History of the Northern Dynasties 北史高遵傳
  Relation Subject of
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passages 264-265
• Cruel Officials biography in the Book of Wei 魏書酷吏高遵傳
  Relation Subject of
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passages 268, 270
• Speech · Addressee · Speaker Emperor Gaozu (高祖) · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passages 107-110

Events and relationships

• Accepted bribes in appointments
  Corruption · Perpetrator
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 102
• Came to court at Ye
  AD 494 遷都赦 · Court audience · Subject · At Ye 鄴
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Wei 95, passage 105
• Carved temple stele
  Scholarly · Engraver · With Prince Xuan of Yan (燕宣王) · At Chang'an 長安
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 91
• Demanded wealth from brother
  Extortion · Perpetrator · With Gao Ciwen (次文)
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 122
• Drafted laws with colleagues
  Legislative · Participant
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 94
• Excluded from mourning place
  Personal · Son · With Gao Ji (濟)
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 84

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment censured-by-public-opinion · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 123
• Assessment greedy and cruel · Mode named-source-report
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 104
• Assessment not honest and clean · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 98
• Item grain, silk, cattle, and horses 粟帛牛馬 · Relation Bestowed
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 95

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 264
• In the Northern History his biography is attached to the biography of Gao Yun in juan 31; this juan narrates him in more detail than the Northern History.
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passages 265, 268, 270