Sui and Tang · Official and Administrator

Liu Qichu 劉棲楚

Attested AD 820 - AD 826

Passages: 10
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Qichu as an administrator, courtier, and official. This record brings together 10 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	Liu Qichu	劉棲楚	Liu Qichu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xintangshu:175:s0049

Roles

Administrator
Courtier
Official

Life and dates

Death

Explicit · xintangshu:175:s0075

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 敬宗前後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 820 · End: AD 826
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:175:s0050
Source Date: Text: 敬宗立 · Western Year: AD 824
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:175:s0052

Career and standing

Label: metropolitan magistrate of Jingzhao / 京兆尹 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xintangshu:175:s0069
Label: Right Reminder / 右拾遺 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xintangshu:175:s0050
Title: Left Regular Cavalryman-in-Attendance / 左散騎常侍 · Action: posthumous
Explicit · xintangshu:175:s0075
Status: humble-origin · Label: poor and low birth / 寒鄙
Explicit · xintangshu:175:s0049

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Emperor Jingzong (敬宗)
Explicit · xintangshu:175:s0053, xintangshu:175:s0054, xintangshu:175:s0055, xintangshu:175:s0056, xintangshu:175:s0057, xintangshu:175:s0058, xintangshu:175:s0062

Events and relationships

Relation: client-of · Person Id: Li Fengji (李逢吉)
Explicit · xintangshu:175:s0051

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: perverse, rash, relied on patronage to advance · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · xintangshu:175:s0073

References in the histories

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 175Volume 175 Biographies 100: Dou, Liu, Two Zhangs, Yang, Xiong, Bai · 10 passages

劉棲楚，其出寒鄙。 Liu Qichu sprang from poor and low birth.

逢吉之罷裴度、逐李紳，皆嗾而為奸者。 Fengji's ouster of Pei Du and banishment of Li Shen were both driven by Qichu as his scheming henchman.

棲楚諫曰：「惟前世王者初嗣位，皆親庶政，坐以待旦。 Qichu admonished: "Ancient kings at the start of their reigns personally handled government, sitting up to await dawn.

棲楚捧首立，帝動容，揚袂使去。 Qichu stood clutching his head; the emperor was stirred, gestured dismissal, and had him led away.

棲楚曰：「不聽臣言，臣請死於此。」 Qichu said, "If you will not hear me, I beg to die on this spot."

棲楚一切窮治，不閱旬，宿奸老蠹為斂跡。 Qichu pursued every case to the limit; within ten days old evils drew in their claws.

又新與拾遺李續、劉棲楚等為逢吉搏吠所憎，故有「八關十六子」之目。 Youxin, with Li Xu and Liu Qichu, were detested as Fengji's attack dogs, earning the name "Eight Passes and Sixteen Sons."

劉棲楚為京兆尹，樹權勢，望日出入門下，為刺取事機，陰佐計畫。 As Qichu built power as Jingzhao magistrate, Wang came and went daily, picking up intelligence and plotting in secret.

棲楚薦望，未及用，帝崩。 Qichu recommended Wang, but before the post was filled the emperor died.

如群、棲楚輩則然，肆訐以示公，構黨以植私，其言纚纚若可聽，卒而入於敗亂也。 Men such as Qun and Qichu do the same—parade accusation as public duty, knit factions for private ends; their speech glides like truth, yet ends in ruin.