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Hu Changcai 胡長粲

Attested AD 560 - AD 571

Passages
11
Chapters
3
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Hu Changcai as a courtier, envoy, family member, and official. This record brings together 11 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Hu Changcai 胡長粲 Hu Changcai
Personal Changcan 長粲 Changcan
Personal name Hu Changcai 胡長粲 Hu Changcai
Personal name Hu Changcan 胡長粲 Hú Chángcàn
Surname Hu

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Courtier
  • Envoy
  • Family Member
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: lost voice and died after arm failure while washing hair / 沐髮手不得舉,失音,卒 · Place: Zhaozhou / 趙州
    Explicit · beiqishu:048:s0092

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 世祖崩 · Western Year: AD 568
    Explicit · beiqishu:048:s0084
  • Source Date: Text: 後主 · Western Interval: Start: AD 565 · End: AD 571
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:050:s0069
  • Source Date: Text: 後主踐祚 · Western Year: AD 565
    Explicit · beiqishu:048:s0083
  • Source Date: Text: 輔遵太子 · Western Interval: Start: AD 560 · End: AD 565
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:040:s0027

Family

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Career and standing

  • Label: Inspector of Zhaozhou / 趙州刺史 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · beiqishu:048:s0090
  • Label: palace attendant / 給事中 · Action: began-career
    Explicit · beiqishu:048:s0082
  • Label: palace attendant / 侍中 · Action: held
    Explicit · beiqishu:048:s0087
  • Label: gentleman attendant at the Yellow Gate / 黃門侍郎 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · beiqishu:048:s0082

Places and affiliations

Events and relationships

  • Kind: political · Role: member · Action: one of the Eight Nobles directing court
    Explicit · beiqishu:048:s0084

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: devoted support; gained strong reputation · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · beiqishu:048:s0086
  • Kind: illness · Statement: could not raise hand; lost voice before death
    Explicit · beiqishu:048:s0092

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 40Volume 40 Biographies 32: Yu Jin (Northern Qi); Feng Zicong; Helian Ziyue; Tang Yong; Bai Jian · 1 passage
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 48Volume 48 Biographies 40: Imperial Affines · 9 passages
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 50Volume 50 Biographies 42: Favored by Nobles · 1 passage