Sui and Tang · Vice Director of the Heavenly Office

Keji 克己

Attested AD 690 - AD 705

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Keji was a Vice Director of the Heavenly Office.

Life and dates

Death

already deceased when Wei wrote to Zhang Yue
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 197

Attested activity

AD 690 to AD 705 則天時
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 192

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Descendant of Yanquan (彥泉)
descendant 後 · paternal line
Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 193, passages 190, 192
Parent of Wei Shi (魏氏)
father 父 · paternal line
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 192

Career and standing

man of letters 有詞學
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 192
Vice Director of the Heavenly Office 天官侍郎
AD 690 to AD 705 則天時 · Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 192

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 192

Events and relationships

Relation Patron of · Person Zhang Yue (張說)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 197

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 192

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 193Volume 187 Biographies 137: Loyal and Righteous 1 · 2 passages

父克己，有詞學，則天時為天官侍郎。 Her father Keji was a man of letters; during Wu Zetian's reign he was Vice Director of the Heavenly Office.

初，中書令張說年少時為克己所重，魏氏恨其夫為外職，乃作書與說，敘亡父疇昔之事，並為庭瑜申理，乃錄《南征賦》寄說。 Earlier, when Zhang Yue was young, Keji had valued him; resenting her husband's exile, Wei wrote to Yue recounting her late father's dealings with him and pleading Tingyu's case, enclosing the "Rhapsody on the Southern Expedition."