Overview
The translated histories identify Wei Jin as an envoy, official, and statesman. This record brings together 11 passages from 5 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Wei Jin | 尉瑾 | Wei Jin |
| Courtesy name | Anren | 安仁 | Anren |
| Given | Jin | 瑾 | |
| Personal name | Wei Jin | 尉瑾 | |
| Surname | Yu | 尉 | |
| Personal name | Yu Jin | 尉瑾 | Yu Jin |
| Personal | Yu Jin | 尉瑾 | Yu Jin |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleExplicit · beiqishu:030:s0002
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · beiqishu:040:s0002, weishu:110:s0182
Roles
- Envoy
- Official
- Statesman
Life and dates
Death
- Manner: illnessExplicit · beiqishu:040:s0013
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 世祖踐祚 · Western Interval: Start: AD 561 · End: AD 565Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:040:s0010
- Source Date: Text: 大同十一年 · Western Year: AD 545Explicit event contextual date · zizhitongjian:159:s0003, zizhitongjian:159:s0003a, zizhitongjian:159:s0075
- Source Date: Text: 天保 · Western Year: AD 550Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:030:s0209
- Source Date: Text: 文襄崩 · Western Year: AD 549Explicit event contextual date · weishu:110:s0182
- Source Date: Text: 河清 · Western Interval: Start: AD 562 · End: AD 565Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:025:s0146
- Source Date: Text: 肅宗輔政 · Western Interval: Start: AD 560 · End: AD 561Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:040:s0009
Family
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- Child of Yu Qingbin (尉慶賓)Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
- Spouse of Wife of Yu Jin (皮氏女)Kinship Term: married / 娶 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: active
- Parent of Yu Dezai (尉德載)Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Career and standing
- Label: minister of personnel / 吏部尚書 · Action: appointedExplicit event contextual date · beiqishu:040:s0009
- Label: right vice director / 右僕射 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:040:s0012
- Label: secretariat vice-director / 中書舍人 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:040:s0006
- Label: straight attendant / 直後 · Action: appointedExplicit · beiqishu:040:s0005
- Label: Secretariat Attendant / 中書舍人 · Action: heldExplicit · zizhitongjian:159:s0075
Places and affiliations
- Label: Northern Qi / 齊 · Relation: servedStrongly inferred · beiqishu:040:s0010
Events and relationships
- Kind: political · Role: participant · Action: managed confidential affairs with Gao Dezheng at Ye northern palace · Other Person Id: Gao Dezheng (高德正)Explicit · beiqishu:040:s0008
- Kind: diplomatic mission · Role: envoy · Action: sent by Eastern Wei to Liang · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同十一年 · Western Year: AD 545Explicit · zizhitongjian:159:s0075
- Relation: affinal-kin-of · Person Id: Sima Ziru (司馬子如)Explicit · beiqishu:040:s0006, beiqishu:040:s0007
- Relation: recommended-by · Person Id: He Shikai (和士開)Explicit · beiqishu:040:s0010
- Relation: recommended-by · Person Id: Zhao Yanshen (趙彥深)Explicit · beiqishu:040:s0010
- Relation: recommended-by · Person Id: Yuan Wenyao (元文遙)Explicit · beiqishu:040:s0010
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: could defer to scholars but could not distinguish them; grew harsh and arrogant in high office · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
- Assessment: outwardly eminent but household foul and disorderly; despised by the age · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · beiqishu:040:s0014
References in the histories
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