Pei Jingxian 裴敬憲

Other names

Family

• Sibling of Pei Zhuangbo (裴莊伯)
  elder brother 兄 · Full siblings
  younger brother 弟 · Full siblings
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passages 223, 239-240
• Child of Pei Xuan (裴宣)
  father 父
  son 子
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passages 34, 222

• Kinship Role younger brothers · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passages 35-36

Career and standing

• Erudite of the Imperial Academy 太學博士
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 37
• Vice Director of the Secretariat 中書侍郎
  AD 530 永興三年 · Posthumously granted
  Uncertain · Book of Wei 91, passage 47
• posthumous honors with his brother 追贈
  AD 530 永安三年 · Posthumously granted · Mode commentator-judgment
  Strongly inferred · Book of Wei 91, passages 239-240
• Wen 文
  AD 530 永興三年 · Posthumously named
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 47

Places and affiliations

• Polity Northern Wei 北魏 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · Book of Wei 91, passages 37, 47, 239-240
• At Wenxi in Hedong 河東聞喜
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 33

Learning and skills

• Earned
  Credential top place in policy examination 射策高第
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 37
• Recommended
  Credential Cultivated Talent 秀才
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 37
• Skill clerical and cursive calligraphy 隸草 · Level skilled
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 39
• Skill music theory 音律 · Level understood
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 39
• Skill five-character poetry 五言 · Level unrivaled
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 39

Events and relationships

• Composed finest parting poem
  Literary · Poet · With Prince of Zhongshan (中山王) · At River Bridge 河梁
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 41
• Declined merit officer summons
  Official · Declined appointee
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 36
• Farewell banquet and poems
  Farewell · Friend · With Yuan Xi (元熙) · At River Bridge 河梁
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 230
• House spared by rebels
  AD 525 to AD 527 孝昌中 · Personal · Householder
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 45
• Relation Recommended by · Person Yuan Yong (元雍)
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 37
• Relation Friend of · Person Yuan Xi (元熙)
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 230

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment advanced younger brothers first; admired by contemporaries · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 36
• Assessment deeply mourned by contemporaries · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 43
• Assessment prose clear and refined but not expansive · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 42
• chronic qi/breathing disorder from youth
  Illness
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 43

Source notes

• Northern History Jingxian biography reads Yongxing; commentator judges Yongxing a corruption of Yong'an, matching Zhuangbo's Yong'an 3 posthumous appointment.
  Field date-in-biography · Mode commentator-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passages 239-240
• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passages 1, 222
• family long known in the district for benevolence and righteousness
  Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 44
• From Jingxuan 敬宣 · To Jingxian 敬憲 · same Men of Letters figure; biography quotation uses 敬宣, collation and Zhongshan Xi citation use 敬憲
  Strongly inferred · Book of Wei 91, passages 222, 227, 230