Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and Writer

Lu Zhongxuan 盧仲宣

Attested AD 500 - AD 540

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Lu Zhongxuan was an official and Writer.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 516 熙平初
Dated from the passage context · Book of Wei 91, passage 148
AD 500 to AD 540 觀弟仲宣
Strongly inferred · Book of Wei 91, passage 221

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Lu Guangzong (盧光宗)
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 221
Sibling of Lu Guan (盧觀)
younger brother 弟 · Full siblings
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 221

Places and affiliations

Polity Northern Wei 北魏 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 148

Events and relationships

Placed in top tier
AD 516 熙平初 · Examination · Candidate
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 148

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passages 148, 221
Biography was attached to elder brother Lu Guan rather than given an independent Men of Letters entry, so later supplement missed him
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 223

References in the histories

Book of Wei, Chapter 91Volume 85: Men of Letters: Yuan Yue, Pei Jingxian, Lu Guan, Feng Su, Xing Cang, Pei Bomao, Xing Xin · 3 passages

熙平初，中尉、東平王匡博召辭人，以充御史，同時射策者八百餘人，子昇與盧仲宣、孫搴等二十四人為高第。 At the beginning of Xiping, Prince Kuang of Dongping, Commandant of Justice, summoned literary men broadly to fill the Censorate; over eight hundred candidates took the policy examination at once, and Zisheng with Lu Zhongxuan, Sun Qian, and twenty-two others ranked in the top tier.

考本書卷四七盧玄傳附見盧光宗，云：「子觀、觀弟仲宣，事在文苑傳。」 In this book, volume 47, the biography of Lu Xuan notes in passing on Lu Guangzong: "His sons Guan and Guan's younger brother Zhongxuan are treated in the Men of Letters section."

今此卷無盧仲宣、裴莊伯，當是後人據目補傳，仲宣、莊伯並附其兄，非正傳，故目錄不載，以致失補。 Yet this volume lacks entries for Lu Zhongxuan and Pei Zhuangbo. Later editors must have meant to supply biographies listed in the table of contents but failed to do so: Zhongxuan and Zhuangbo were merely appended to their elder brothers' biographies, not given independent entries, so the table of contents did not list them—and the supplement was never made.