Ji Ci (季次) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Ji Ci as a named individual and scholar. This record brings together 3 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Ji Ci	季次	Jì Cì
Personal name	Ji Ci	季次	Jì Cì

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · shiji:124:s0004

Roles

Named Individual
Scholar

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 死而已四百餘年 · Western Year: BC 500
Explicit event contextual date · shiji:124:s0004, shiji:124:s0006

Career and standing

Status: poverty · Label: bare rooms and wattle doors / 空室蓬戶
Explicit · shiji:124:s0005

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: solitary gentleman; laughed at by his age · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Sima Qian (太史公)
Explicit · shiji:124:s0004

References in the histories

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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 124Biographies of Knight-errants · 3 passages

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及若季次、原憲，閭巷人也，讀書懷獨行君子之德，義不茍合當世，當世亦笑之。 Then there were men like Ji Ci and Yuan Xian — common folk of the lanes and alleys who cherished their books and upheld the solitary virtues of the true gentleman. They refused on principle to bend to the age, and the age laughed at them in return.

故季次、原憲終身空室蓬戶，褐衣疏食不厭。 So Ji Ci and Yuan Xian lived out their days in bare rooms behind wattle doors, clad in rough cloth and eating thin gruel, yet never once complained.

誠使鄉曲之俠，予季次、原憲比權量力，效功於當世，不同日而論矣。 If one were to weigh the local knights against Ji Ci and Yuan Xian in terms of power and achievement, measuring their service to the age — they simply cannot be spoken of in the same breath.