Jingxian (景先) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Jingxian as a 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	Jingxian	景先	Jǐngxiān
Alternate	Jingguang	景光	Jǐngguāng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · weishu:098:s0105

Roles

Scholar

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 魏世 · Western Interval: Start: AD 386 · End: AD 534
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:098:s0105

Family

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Child of Lady Cui (崔氏)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Works and attributed material

Work: biography appended to Fang Fashou’s biography / 景先傳 · Relation: subject
Explicit · weishu:098:s0240

Source notes

Field: name · Statement: other editions and 北史 read 景光, but 景先 is confirmed and restored
Textual variant · weishu:098:s0239, weishu:098:s0240, weishu:098:s0241, weishu:098:s0242

References in the histories

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Book of Wei, Chapter 98Volume 92: Notable Women: Cui Lan's Consort Feng, Feng Zhuo's Consort Liu, Wei Pu's Consort Fang, Hu Changming's Consort Zhang · 3 passages

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子景伯、景先，崔氏親授經義，[7]學行修明，並為當世名士。 Her sons Jingbo and Jingxian received the classics directly from Lady Cui; [7] both became men of cultivated learning and conduct, renowned in their day.

子景伯景先崔氏親授經義諸本及北史卷九一房愛親妻崔氏傳「景先」作「景光」。 "Her sons Jingbo and Jingxian received the classics from Lady Cui": various editions and juan 91 of the History of the Northern Dynasties read "Jingguang" instead of "Jingxian."

按卷四三房法壽傳附景伯景先傳，景先傳云：「其母自授毛詩、曲禮。」 Note: juan 43's biography of Fang Fashou includes biographies of Jingbo and Jingxian; Jingxian's biography states: "His mother personally taught him the Mao Odes and the Record of Rites in One Volume."