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Overview The translated histories identify Nie Congyi as an official and scholar. This record brings together 6 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
Nie Congyi
聶從義
Nie Congyi
Alternate
Chongyi
崇義
Chongyi
Surname
Nie
聶
Nie
Identity
Historicity Historical
Identification Named
Sex Male Life and dates Attested activity Works and attributed material Events and relationships Kind: ritual-debate ·
Role: debater ·
Action: argued-bi-and-cong-dimensions ·
Other Person Id: Yin Zhuo (尹拙) References in the histories Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 143 Volume 143: Treatises 5 Rites 2 · 6 passages
國子博士聶從義以為璧內外皆圓，其徑九寸。
Erudite of the Imperial Academy Nie Congyi held that the bi is round inside and out, with a diameter of nine cun.
崇義又引《冬官·玉人》云「璧好三寸」，《爾雅》云「肉倍好謂之璧」，兩邊肉各三寸，通好共九寸，則其璧九寸明矣。
Chongyi also cited the Winter Office, Jade Workers: "The perforation of the bi is three cun," and the Erya: "When the rim is twice the perforation it is called a bi"; three cun of rim on each side plus a three-cun perforation totaling nine cun—thus the nine-cun bi is established.
崇義又云：「璜琮八方以象地，每角各剡出一寸六分，共長八寸，厚一寸。
Chongyi also said: "Huang and cong are eight-sided to represent Earth; each corner is carved one cun and six fen, totaling eight cun long and one cun thick.
崇義又云：「琮璜珪璧，俱是祀天地之器，而《爾雅》唯言璧環瑗三者有好，其餘黃琮諸器，並不言之，則璜琮八角而無好明矣。」
Chongyi also said: "Cong, huang, gui, and bi are all vessels for worshipping Heaven and Earth, yet the Erya mentions perforations only for bi, huan, and yuan; for the yellow cong and other vessels it is silent—thus huang and cong are clearly eight-cornered and without perforation."
太常卿田敏以下議，以為尹拙所說雖有所據，而崇義援《周禮》正文，其理稍優，請從之。
Director of the Court of Imperial Rites Tian Min and his colleagues held that although Yin Zhuo's arguments had some basis, Chongyi's citation of the authoritative text of the Rites of Zhou was the stronger reasoning; they requested approval of his view.
其諸祭器制度，亦多以崇義所議為定。
Regulations for the various sacrificial vessels were also largely fixed according to Chongyi's deliberations.