Overview
The translated histories identify Ji Kang as a named individual, philosopher, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 7 passages from 6 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Ji Kang | 嵇康 | Jī Kāng |
| Surname | Ji | 嵇 | |
| Personal name | Ji Kang | 嵇康 | Jī Kāng |
| Personal | Ji Kang | 嵇康 | |
| Personal | Ji Kang | 嵇生 | Ji Kang |
| Personal | Ji Kang | 嵇康 | Ji Kang |
| Given name | Kang | 康 | |
| Title | Master of Dispersal | 中散 | |
| Title | Master of the Palace Writers | 中散 |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · jinshi:050:s0187
- Sex: maleExplicit · songshu:089:s0002, xinwudaishi:035:s0100
Roles
- Named Individual
- Philosopher
- Scholar
- Writer
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Western Interval: Start: AD 223 · End: AD 262 · Source Date: Text: 今有此書，非敢叨擬中散，誠不能顧Explicit · songshu:062:s0124
- Source Date: Text: 元嘉三年後五君詠及庭誥 · Western Interval: Start: AD 426 · End: AD 433
- Source Date: Text: 嵇康 · Western Interval: Start: AD 223 · End: AD 262Explicit · jinshi:050:s0187
- Source Date: Text: 嵇康死 · Western Year: AD 262Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:035:s0100
- Source Date: Text: 嵇康高士傳 · Western Year: AD 260Explicit event contextual date · songshu:089:s0018
Family
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- Parent of Ji Shao (嵇紹)Kinship Term: father / 父 · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Parentage: biological · Line: paternal
Works and attributed material
- Work: Treatise on Nourishing Life / 養生論Explicit · jinshi:050:s0187
- Work: Biographies of Lofty Men / 高士傳 · Relation: authorExplicit · songshu:089:s0018
- Work: Treatise on Nourishing Life / 養生論 · Relation: authorExplicit · jinshi:050:s0187
- Work: Odes to the Five Lords / 五君詠 · Relation: subject-of-poemExplicit · songshu:073:s0046
- Kind: quotation · Role: speaker · Provenance: Mode: quoted-document · Speaker Person Id: Ji Kang (嵇康) · Source Work: Household AdmonitionsExplicit · songshu:073:s0233
References in the histories
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