Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Historian and Official

Pei Ziye 裴子野

Attested AD 469 - AD 530

Passages
29
Chapters
2
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Pei Ziye as a historian, official, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 29 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Pei Ziye 裴子野 Pei Ziye
Courtesy name Jiyuan 幾原 Jǐyuán
Title Minister of Ceremonies 鴻臚卿
Surname Pei 裴
Surname Pei 裴 Péi
Personal name Pei Jiyuan 裴幾原 Péi Jǐyuán
Personal name Pei Ziye 裴子野 Pei Ziye
Personal name Pei Ziye 裴子野 Péi Zǐyě
Posthumous name Zhenzi 貞子
Given name Ziye 子野
Given Ziye 子野 Zǐyě

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Historian
  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 大通元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 527
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0064
  • Source Date: Text: 中大通二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 530
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0069
  • Source Date: Text: 普通七年 · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 526
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0054
  • Source Date: Text: 宋元嘉中 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Western Interval: Start: AD 430 · End: AD 450
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0038
  • Source Date: Text: 二年 · Western Year: AD 503
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:030:s0020, liangshu:030:s0012
  • Source Date: Text: 天監初 · Western Year: AD 502
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:030:s0012
  • Western Interval: Start: AD 469 · End: AD 530 · Source Date: Text: 於裴幾原見之矣
    Strongly inferred · liangshu:030:s0201
  • Source Date: Text: 梁初年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 502 · End: AD 520
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:033:s0073
  • Source Date: Text: 齊永明末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 490 · End: AD 493
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0039

Family

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  • Descendant of Pei Yin (裴駰)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Kin of Grandmother of Pei Ziye (裴子野祖母)
    Kinship Term: grandmother / 祖母 · Subject Role: grandmother · Object Role: grandson · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Descendant of Pei Songzhi (裴松之)
    Kinship Term: great-grandfather / 曾祖 · Generation Distance: 3 · Line: paternal
    Kinship Term: great-grandfather / 曾祖 · Generation Distance: 3 · Line: paternal
  • Descendant of Pei Kang (裴康)
    Kinship Term: eighth-generation descendant / 八世孫 · Generation Distance: 8 · Line: paternal
  • Sibling of Pei Li (裴黎)
    Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Object Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full
  • Child of Pei Zhaoming (裴昭明)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
  • Parent of Pei Jian (裴謇)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Spouse of Wife of Pei Ziye (裴子野妻)
    Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage
  • Sibling of Pei Kai (裴楷)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full
  • Sibling of Pei Chuo (裴綽)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: Director of the Court of Justice / 廷尉正 · Action: appointed · Concurrent: true
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0015
  • Label: aide to the Prince of Ancheng in the Right Army / 右軍安成王參軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0015
  • Label: aide to the Prince of Jiangxia in the Right Army / 右軍江夏王參軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0010
  • Label: Colonel of the Footsoldiers / 步兵校尉 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0064
  • Label: Lang of Composition / 著作郎 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0042
  • Label: Lang of the Comparison Bureau / 尚書比部郎 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0036
  • Label: Left Regular Attendant in the Kingdom of Prince Wuling / 武陵王國左常侍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0010
  • Label: magistrate of Zhuji / 諸暨令 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0037
  • Label: Minister of Ceremonies / 鴻臚卿 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0064
  • Label: recorder for the Champion General / 冠軍錄事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0020
  • Label: Vice Director of the Secretariat / 中書侍郎 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0063
  • Label: posthumous Regular Attendant of the Cavalry / 贈散騎常侍 · Action: bestowed
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0076
  • Status: mourning · Action: entered · Reason: father's death
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0010
  • Label: dismissed as accomplice / 從坐免職 · Action: dismissed
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0016

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: body slight but writing strong · Provenance: Mode: named-speaker · Speaker Person Id: Emperor Wu of Liang (梁武帝)
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0055
  • Assessment: combined literary talent with moral conduct, modeled on Ziyou, Zixia, Yan Hui, and Min Ziqian · Statement: combining literary talent with moral conduct — all of this we see in Pei Jiyuan / 體兼文行，於裴幾原見之矣 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Yao Cha (姚察)
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0201
  • Item: funeral gifts of 50,000 cash and 50 bolts of cloth / 賻錢五萬，布五十匹 · Relation: bestowed
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0076

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 33Volume 33 Biographies 25: Xiao Yuanming; Xiao Zhi (Liang); Xiao Tui; Xiao Fang (Liang); Xu Zhicai · 1 passage
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Book of Liang, Chapter 30Volume 30: Pei Ziye; Gu Xie; Xu Chi; Bao Quan · 28 passages
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會遷國子博士，乃上表讓之曰：「伏見前冠軍府錄事參軍河東裴子野，年四十，字幾原，幼稟至人之行，長厲國士之風。 When he was appointed Erudite of the Imperial Academy, he submitted a memorial yielding the post to another, saying: "I have observed the former recorder of the Champion General's headquarters, Pei Ziye of Hedong, age forty, styled Jiyuan, who from youth embodied the conduct of a sage and in maturity cultivated the bearing of a true gentleman of the state.
普通七年，王師北伐，敕子野爲喻魏文，受詔立成，高祖以其事體大，召尚書僕射徐勉、太子詹事周捨、鴻臚卿劉之遴、中書侍郎朱异，集壽光殿以觀之，時並嘆服。 In the seventh year of Putong, the imperial army marched north, and Ziye was ordered to compose a letter admonishing Wei. He received the edict and finished it at once. Because the matter was weighty, Emperor Wu summoned Vice Director of the Secretariat Xu Mian, Supervisor of the Heir Apparent Zhou She, Minister of Ceremonies Liu Zhilin, and Vice Director of the Secretariat Zhu Yi to gather in the Shouguang Hall to read it; all marveled at it.
子野少時，《集注喪服》、《續裴氏家傳》各二卷，抄合後漢事四十餘卷，又敕撰《衆僧傳》二十卷，《百官九品》二卷，《附益諡法》一卷，《方國使圖》一卷，文集二十卷，並行於世。 In his youth Ziye wrote the Collected Commentary on Mourning Garments and the Continuation of the Pei Family Genealogy, each in two juan, and copied and compiled more than forty juan of Later Han affairs. By edict he also composed the Biographies of the Many Monks in twenty juan, the Nine Ranks of the Hundred Officials in two juan, Supplementary Methods of Posthumous Titles in one juan, the Atlas of Envoys from the Border States in one juan, and a collection of writings in twenty juan — all of which circulated in his day.