Overview
The translated histories identify Kong Xiuyuan as an administrator, judge, official, and scholar. This record brings together 25 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 | Kong Xiuyuan | 孔休源 | Kong Xiuyuan |
| Surname | Kong | 孔 | Kong |
| Title | Kong the Sole Reciter | 孔獨誦 | Kong Ducsong |
| Personal name | Kong Xiuyuan | 孔休源 | Kong Xiuyuan |
| Courtesy name | Qingxu | 慶緒 | Qingxu |
| Posthumous name | Viscount Zhen | 貞子 | Zhenzi |
| Given | Xiuyuan | 休源 | Xiuyuan |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · liangshu:036:s0003
Roles
- Administrator
- Judge
- Official
- Scholar
Life and dates
Death
- Date: Source Date: Text: 四年 · Note: 中大通四年 · Western Year: AD 532 · Age: Age: 64 · Reckoning: suiExplicit event contextual date · liangshu:036:s0042, liangshu:036:s0043
Age
- Age: 11 · Reckoning: sui · Context: orphanedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0007
- Age: 64 · Reckoning: sui · Context: at deathExplicit · liangshu:036:s0043
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 四年 · Note: 中大通四年 · Western Year: AD 532Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:036:s0042, liangshu:036:s0043
- Source Date: Text: 中大通二年 · Western Year: AD 530Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:036:s0175
- Source Date: Text: 建武四年 · Western Year: AD 497Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:036:s0009
- Source Date: Text: 普通七年 · Western Year: AD 526Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:036:s0170
- Source Date: Text: 梁臺建 · Western Year: AD 502Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:036:s0012
Family
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- Child of Yaozhi (遙之)Kinship Term: great-grandfather / 曾祖 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: great-grandson · Object Role: great-grandfather · Generation Distance: 3 · Line: paternal
- Descendant of Chongzhi (沖之)Kinship Term: eighth-generation descendant / 八世孫 · Generation Distance: 8 · Line: paternal
- Kin of Kong Deng (孔登)Kinship Term: clansman / 宗人
- Parent of Kong Yuntong (孔雲童)Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Subject Birth Order: 1
- Child of Pei (珮)Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
- Parent of Kong Zonggui (孔宗軌)Kinship Term: youngest son / 少子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Career and standing
- Label: Acting Director of Ritual / 兼尚書儀曹郎中 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0021
- Label: Acting Magistrate of Danyang / 行丹陽尹事 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0029
- Label: Adjunct in Prince of Linchuan's household / 臨川王府行參軍 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0017
- Label: Bright Might General / 明威將軍 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0037
- Label: Chamberlain of the Imperial Treasury / 太府卿 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0169
- Label: Chief of household of Prince of Jin'an; Administrator of Nan; directing Jingzhou / 宣惠晉安王府長史、南郡太守、行荊州府州事 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0030
- Label: Chief of Prince of Shixing's household; Nan administrator / 憺府長史,南郡太守、行府州事 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0034
- Label: Corrector of Jiankang Prison / 建康獄正 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0024
- Label: Director of the Secretariat / 秘書監 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0037
- Label: Grand Master for Splendid Happiness with Gold Seal and Purple Ribbon / 金紫光祿大夫 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 中大通二年 · Western Year: AD 530Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:036:s0175
- Label: Household Attendant to the Crown Prince / 太子中庶子 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0169
- Label: Junior Director of the Treasury / 少府卿 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0029
- Label: Left Assistant Director of the Masters of Writing / 尚書左丞 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0026
- Label: Master of the Imperial Academy / 太學博士 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0012
- Label: Minister of Justice / 都官尚書 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0169
- Label: Palace Secretary / 中書舍人 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0026
- Label: Regular Attendant of the Scattered Cavalry / 通直散騎常侍 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0037
- Label: Senior Concurrent Censor / 長兼御史中丞 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0028
- Label: Supervising Gentleman of the Yellow Gate / 給事黃門侍郎 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0028
- Label: Western Pavilion scholar / 西邸學士 · Action: appointedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0011
- Label: Xuanhui General and supervisor of Yangzhou / 宣惠將軍、監揚州 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 普通七年 · Western Year: AD 526Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:036:s0170, liangshu:036:s0172
- Label: posthumous Regular Attendant and Grand Master / 贈散騎常侍、金紫光祿大夫 · Action: bestowedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0053
Places and affiliations
- Polity Id: liu-song · Relation: ancestralExplicit · liangshu:036:s0005
- Place: Shanyin in Kuaiji / 會稽山陰Explicit · liangshu:036:s0003
Learning and skills
- Credential: xiucai / 秀才 · Action: nominatedExplicit event contextual date · liangshu:036:s0009
Works and attributed material
- Works: memorials and impeachments in fifteen fascicles / 奏議彈文十五卷Explicit · liangshu:036:s0068
- Work: Doubts on Rites / 禮疑義 · Relation: included-authorExplicit · liangshu:036:s0027
- Explicit · liangshu:036:s0032
Events and relationships
- Kind: political · Role: counselor · Action: helped establish Gang as crown prince · Other Person Id: Emperor Xuan (高宗)Explicit · liangshu:036:s0041
- Relation: student-of · Person Id: Shen Linshi (沈驎士)Explicit · liangshu:036:s0008
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: paragon of conduct / 人倫儀錶 · Provenance: Mode: edict · Source Person Id: Emperor Wu of Liang (梁武帝)Explicit · liangshu:036:s0033
- Assessment: 清忠正直 · Provenance: Mode: edict · Source Person Id: Emperor Wu of Liang (梁武帝)Explicit · liangshu:036:s0045
- Assessment: 識治見知 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · liangshu:036:s0166
- Item: funeral gifts: coffin, cloth, cash, wax / 賻第一材一具,布五十匹,錢五萬,蠟二百斤 · Relation: bestowedExplicit · liangshu:036:s0053
Source notes
- Statement: collected more than seven thousand books and collated them himselfExplicit · liangshu:036:s0068
References in the histories
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