Wei Shaoyou (魏少遊)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wei Shaoyou as an administrator, aristocrat, and official. This record brings together 16 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wei Shaoyou	魏少遊	Wei Shaoyou
Title	Duke of Zhao	趙國公
Given name	Shaoyou	少遊	Shaoyou
Courtesy	Shaoyou	少遊	Shaoyou
Given	Shaoyou	少遊	Shaoyou
Surname	Wei	魏	Wei
Personal name	Wei Shaoyou	魏少遊	Wei Shaoyou

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiutangshu:119:s0071, xintangshu:141:s0075

Roles

Administrator
Aristocrat
Official

Life and dates

Death

Place: in office / 於官 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大歷六年三月己未 · Lunar Month: 3 · Western Year: AD 771
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0091
Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大歷六年 · Western Year: AD 771
Explicit · xintangshu:141:s0091

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾元二年十月 · Lunar Month: 10 · Western Year: AD 759
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0080
Source Date: Text: 大歷六年三月己未 · Lunar Month: 3 · Western Year: AD 771
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0091
Source Date: Text: 大歷二年四月 · Lunar Month: 4 · Western Year: AD 767
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0083
Source Date: Text: 大歷四年六月 · Lunar Month: 6 · Western Year: AD 769
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0084
Source Date: Text: 大歷二年 · Western Year: AD 767
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:141:s0090
Source Date: Text: 大歷六年 · Western Year: AD 771
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:141:s0091
Source Date: Text: 天寶末 · Western Year: AD 755
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:141:s0076
Source Date: Text: 至德元載 · Western Year: AD 756
Explicit event contextual date · jiutangshu:119:s0073

Career and standing

Label: Censor-in-Chief / 御史大夫 · Action: appointed · Concurrent: true · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大歷二年四月 · Lunar Month: 4 · Western Year: AD 767
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0083
Label: Military Governor and Observation Commissioner of Jiangxi West / 江南西道都團練觀察等使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大歷二年四月 · Lunar Month: 4 · Western Year: AD 767
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0083
Label: acting commissioner (liuhou) / 知留後 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0073
Label: Minister of the Imperial Regalia / 衛尉卿 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0079
Label: Prefect of Hong / 洪州刺史 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 大歷二年四月 · Lunar Month: 4 · Western Year: AD 767
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0083
Label: Chief Administrator of Qu Prefecture / 渠州長史 · Action: demoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾元二年十月 · Lunar Month: 10 · Western Year: AD 759
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0080
Label: Deputy Commissioner for Shuofang Water-and-Land Transport / 朔方水陸轉運副使 · Action: held
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0072
Label: Mayor of the Capital / 京兆尹 · Action: held
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0081
Label: Shuo-fang transport deputy commissioner / 朔方水陸轉運副使 · Action: served · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天寶末 · Western Year: AD 755
Explicit · xintangshu:141:s0076
Label: Vice Minister of Justice / 刑部侍郎 · Action: transferred
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0082
Title: Duke of Zhao / 趙國公 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大歷四年六月 · Lunar Month: 6 · Western Year: AD 769
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0084
Label: Grand Preceptor / 太師 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0091
Title: grand preceptor of the heir apparent / 太子太師 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · xintangshu:141:s0091
Title: Duke of Zhao / 趙國公 · Action: changed-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大歷二年 · Western Year: AD 767
Explicit · xintangshu:141:s0090
Title: marquis of Julu / 鉅鹿縣侯 · Action: granted
Explicit · xintangshu:141:s0083

Places and affiliations

Label: Tang / 唐 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · jiutangshu:119:s0071
Place: Julu in Xingzhou / 邢州鉅鹿
Explicit · xintangshu:141:s0075
Place: Julu / 鉅鹿
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0071

Works and attributed material

Kind: petition · Role: author · Summary: barred high-ranking relatives from certain Jingzhao posts
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0081

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: opponent · Action: blocked-horse-contribution-plan · Other Person Id: Li Yu (李瑀) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾元二年十月 · Lunar Month: 10 · Western Year: AD 759
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0080
Kind: ritual · Role: host · Action: lavishly-supplied-and-escorted-Suzong · Other Person Id: Emperor Suzong (肅宗) · Place: Lingwu / 靈武
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0074, jiutangshu:119:s0075, jiutangshu:119:s0076
Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Jia Mingguan (賈明觀)
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0089

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: good at employing men; points worth praising · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · xintangshu:141:s0092
Assessment: indulged Jia Mingguan according to Yuan Zai's wishes · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0089
Assessment: kept regulations and brought affairs to completion · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0133
Assessment: kept regulations; good at employing men; four times capital mayor; frugal and careful · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiutangshu:119:s0092, jiutangshu:119:s0093

References in the histories

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 119Volume 115 Biographies 65: Cui Qi, Zhao Guozhen, Cui Guan, Jing Kuo, Wei Yuanfu, Wei Shaoyou, Wei Boyu, Li Cheng · 10 passages

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魏少遊，鉅鹿人也。 Wei Shaoyou came from Julu.

肅宗幸靈武，杜鴻漸等奉迎，留少遊知留後，備宮室掃除之事。 When Suzong went to Lingwu, Du Hongjian and others went out to welcome him; Shaoyou was left behind as acting commissioner to prepare palaces and attend to cleaning.

少遊以肅宗遠離宮闕，初至邊籓，故豐供具以悅之。 Because Suzong had left the palace far behind and had only just reached the frontier, Shaoyou lavished supplies upon him to win his favor.

將至靈武，少遊整騎卒千余，干戈耀日，於靈武南界鳴沙縣奉迎，備威儀振旅而入。 As the emperor neared Lingwu, Shaoyou drew up more than a thousand mounted troops, weapons flashing in the sun, and at Mingsha county on Lingwu's southern border welcomed him with full ceremonial escort, entering in martial array.

乾元二年十月，議率朝臣馬以助軍，少遊與漢中郡王瑀沮其議，上知之，貶渠州長史。 In the tenth month of 759 there was discussion of requiring court officials to contribute horses for the army; Shaoyou and the Prince of Hanzhong, Li Yu, obstructed the plan. When the emperor learned of it, he demoted Shaoyou to chief administrator of Qu prefecture.

四年六月，封趙國公。 In the sixth month of 769 he was enfeoffed duke of Zhao.

在洪州二年，少遊為觀察使，承元載意茍容之。 For two years at Hongzhou, Shaoyou as observation commissioner indulged him according to Zai's wishes.

及路嗣恭代少遊，到州，即日杖殺，識者以是減魏之名，多路之政。 When Lu Sigong replaced Shaoyou and reached the prefecture, he had Mingguan flogged to death that same day. The knowing held that this diminished Wei's reputation and enhanced Lu's.

少遊居職，緣飾成務，有規檢，善任人，果於集事。 In office Shaoyou polished his tasks, kept to regulations, knew how to employ men, and was resolute in bringing affairs to completion.

國珍守黔溪，瓘修禮法，括推誠馭下，元甫為政寬簡，少遊規檢集事，皆可稱者。 Guozhen held the Qian streams secure, Guan restored ritual and law, Kuo dealt sincerely with subordinates, Yuanfu governed with lenience and simplicity, and Shaoyou kept to regulations and brought affairs to completion—each has something to praise.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 141Volume 141 Biographies 66: Cui, Deng, Wei, Wei, Li Han, Lu, Gao · 6 passages