Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official

He Shikai 和士開

Died AD 571

Passages
73
Chapters
10
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify He Shikai as an administrator, aristocrat, courtier, and official. This record brings together 73 passages from 10 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal He Shikai 和士開 He Shikai
Surname He
Personal name He Shikai 和士開 He Shikai
Personal He Shikai 和士開
Personal He Shikai 和士開 Hé Shìkāi
Personal name He Shikai 和士開 Hé Shìkāi
Title Prince of Huaiyang 淮陽王 Huáiyáng wáng
Given Shikai 士開 Shìkāi
Given Shikai 士開
Courtesy name Yantong 彥通 Yàntōng
Given 士開 Shikai

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Aristocrat
  • Courtier
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: beheaded / 斬之 · Age: Value: 48 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 其年七月二十五日 · Western Year: AD 571
  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 士開死 · Western Interval: Start: AD 570 · End: AD 571
    Explicit · beiqishu:038:s0094
  • Manner: strangled · Place: inner secretariat / 內省
    Explicit · beiqishu:040:s0052

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: after Wucheng death · Western Interval: Start: AD 565 · End: AD 568
    Strongly inferred · beiqishu:009:s0101
  • Source Date: Text: 世祖崩 · Western Year: AD 568
  • Source Date: Text: 世祖朝至被殺 · Western Interval: Start: AD 561 · End: AD 573
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:040:s0010, beiqishu:040:s0052
  • Source Date: Text: 其年七月二十五日 · Western Year: AD 571
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:050:s0096, beiqishu:050:s0091
  • Source Date: Text: 和士開亦重其名 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 577
    Explicit event contextual date · suishu:077:s0030
  • Source Date: Text: 和士開以佞幸 · Western Interval: Start: AD 565 · End: AD 571
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:026:s0091
  • Source Date: Text: 和士開同被任遇 · Western Interval: Start: AD 565 · End: AD 571
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:038:s0082
  • Source Date: Text: 大寧二年 · Western Year: AD 562
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:009:s0047
  • Source Date: Text: 天保初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 550
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:050:s0033
  • Source Date: Text: 天統四年 · Western Year: AD 568
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:033:s0136
  • Source Date: Text: 武平元年 · Western Year: AD 570
    Explicit · beiqishu:050:s0091
  • Source Date: Text: 武成 · Western Interval: Start: AD 561 · End: AD 568
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:049:s0135
  • Source Date: Text: 河清二年 · Western Year: AD 563
    Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0085

Family

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  • Child of He An (和安)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Child of Lu Lingxuan (陸令萱)
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Child of Lady Liu (劉氏)
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Parent of He Daosheng (和道盛)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  • Sibling of He Shixiu (和士休)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Subject Role: younger-brother · Object Role: elder-brother
  • Sibling of He Xiu (和休)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: Attendant-in-Ordinary / 侍中 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · beiqishu:050:s0041
  • Label: Capital Region Personnel Adjutant / 京畿士曹參軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · beiqishu:050:s0040
  • Label: Chief Recorder / 錄尚書事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · beiqishu:050:s0091
  • Label: Director of the Department of State Affairs / 尚書令 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · beiqishu:050:s0091
  • Label: Inspector of Qi Province / 齊州刺史 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · beiqishu:048:s0077
  • Label: Inspector of Yan Province / 兗州刺史 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · beiqishu:050:s0074
  • Label: Right Vice Director / 右僕射 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · beiqishu:050:s0045
  • Label: traveling adjutant of Prince of Changguang / 長廣王府行參軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · beiqishu:050:s0033
  • Label: Grand Prefect / 開府 · Action: granted
    Explicit · beiqishu:050:s0041
  • Title: Prince of Huaiyang / 淮陽王 · Action: enfeoffed
    Explicit · beiqishu:050:s0091
  • Status: exile · Action: entered · Place: Great Wall / 長城
    Explicit · beiqishu:050:s0039
  • Status: slandered-another · Action: slandered Yuanhai, leading to his beating · Other Person Id: Gao Yuanhai (高元海)
    Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0085

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: vulgar, ignorant, lived by flattery · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · beiqishu:050:s0103

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 9Volume 9 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 4 passages
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 14Volume 14 Biographies 6: Guangping Gongcheng; Yangzhou Gong Yongle; Di Zhangbi; Prince of Xiangle, Xiang Guo; Prince of Shangluo, Si Zong; Zi Yuanhai; Di Sihao; Prince of Pingqin, Guiyan; Prince Pu of Wuxing; Changle, Governor of Lingshan; Sizi Fuhu · 1 passage
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 26Volume 26 Biographies 18: Xue Chu; Jing Xianjun; Ping Jian · 1 passage
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 33Volume 33 Biographies 25: Xiao Yuanming; Xiao Zhi (Liang); Xiao Tui; Xiao Fang (Liang); Xu Zhicai · 4 passages
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 38Volume 38 Biographies 30: Xin Shu; Yuan Wenyao; Zhao Yanshen · 4 passages
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 40Volume 40 Biographies 32: Yu Jin (Northern Qi); Feng Zicong; Helian Ziyue; Tang Yong; Bai Jian · 10 passages
時太尉錄尚書事趙郡王叡先恒居內,預帷幄之謀,子琮素知士開忌叡及領軍臨淮王婁定遠,恐其矯遺詔出叡外任,奪定遠禁衛之權,因答云:「大行,神武之子,今上又是先皇傳位,群臣富貴者皆是至尊父子之恩,但令在內貴臣一無改易,王公已下必無異望。 At the time grand mentor and recorder of the masters of writing affairs, Prince of Zhao commandery Rui, had long lived inside the palace and shared counsel at the curtain. Zicong knew He Shikai resented Rui and general-in-chief of the guards Prince of Linhuai Lou Dingyuan and feared they might forge the final edict to send Rui out on provincial duty and strip Dingyuan of the guard command. He answered, "The late emperor was Gao Huan's son, and the present sovereign too received the throne from his predecessor. Every minister's wealth came from the sovereign father and son. Leave the great men inside the court unchanged, and the princes and dukes below will surely have no other wish.
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 48Volume 48 Biographies 40: Imperial Affines · 6 passages
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 49Volume 49 Biographies 41: Arts · 1 passage
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 50Volume 50 Biographies 42: Favored by Nobles · 41 passages
Book of Sui, Chapter 77Volume 77 Biographies 42: Recluses · 1 passage