Ancient China · Courtier

Mi Zixia 彌子瑕

Attested BC 550 - BC 480

Passages
6
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Mi Zixia as a courtier and named individual. This record brings together 6 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Mi Zixia 彌子瑕 Mi Zixia
Personal Mi Zi 彌子 Mizi
Personal Mi Zi Xia 彌子瑕 Mi Zixia
Personal name Mi Zixia 彌子瑕 Mi Zixia

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Courtier
  • Named Individual

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 彌子瑕之行 · Western Interval: Start: BC 534 · End: BC 493
    Explicit · shiji:125:s0069
  • Source Date: Text: 彌子瑕見愛於衛君 · Western Interval: Start: BC 550 · End: BC 480
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:063:s0112

Family

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  • Child of Mother of Mi Zixia
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: conduct sufficient to illustrate later flatterers · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Sima Qian (太史公)
    Explicit · shiji:125:s0069
  • Assessment: conduct unchanged; judgment changed with love and hate · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Han Fei (韓非)
    Explicit · shiji:063:s0120

References in the histories

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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 63Biographies of Laozi and Han Fei · 5 passages
Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 125Biographies of Flatterers · 1 passage