Overview
The translated histories identify Wei Shou as a historian, official, poet, and scholar. This record brings together 28 passages from 15 chapters across 4 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Wei Shou | 魏收 | Wei Shou |
| Given name | Shou | 收 | |
| Personal name | Wei Shou | 魏收 | Wei Shou |
| Personal name | Wei Shou | 魏收 | |
| Personal | Wei Shou | 魏收 | Wèi Shōu |
| Personal | Wei Shou | 魏收 | |
| Personal name | Wei Shou | 魏收 | Wèi Shōu |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: male
- Sex: male
Roles
- Historian
- Official
- Poet
- Scholar
- Writer
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 龍德元年二月壬申 · Regnal Year: 1 · Lunar Month: 2 · Sexagenary Day: 壬申 · Western Year: AD 921Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:010:s0061
- Source Date: Text: 四世同居 · Western Interval: Start: AD 471 · End: AD 534Strongly inferred · weishu:093:s0160
- Source Date: Text: 天保初 · Western Year: AD 550Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:035:s0078
- Source Date: Text: 楊愔與魏收及卲 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 559Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:036:s0037, beiqishu:036:s0077
- Source Date: Text: 武定七年 · Western Year: AD 549Explicit · beiqishu:033:s0043
- Source Date: Text: 河清二年正月 · Western Year: AD 563Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:007:s0042
- Source Date: Text: 河清二年正月己卯 · Western Year: AD 563Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:007:s0043
- Source Date: Text: 百衲本、南本、汲本卷末殘存宋人校語：「魏 · Western Interval: Start: AD 551 · End: AD 554Explicit · weishu:030:s0174
- Source Date: Text: 禪代五月 · Western Year: AD 550Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:030:s0121
- Source Date: Text: 魏收 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 559Explicit · beiqishu:048:s0043
- Source Date: Text: 魏收 · Western Interval: Start: AD 506 · End: AD 572Explicit event contextual date · weishu:098:s0233
- Source Date: Text: 魏收書 · Western Interval: Start: AD 551 · End: AD 554Explicit event contextual date · weishu:086:s0118
- Source Date: Text: 魏收書 · Western Year: AD 554Uncertain · weishu:019:s0082
- Source Date: Text: 魏靜帝講經時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 534 · End: AD 550Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:029:s0057
- Source Date: Text: 齊世 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 559Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:021:s0149
- Source Date: Text: 齊亡 · Western Year: AD 577Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:049:s0160
Family
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- Kin of Cui Ang (崔昂)Kinship Term: brothers-in-law / 婦兄妹夫
Kinship Term: sister's husband / brother-in-law / 妹夫 · Subject Role: brother-in-law · Object Role: wife's-brother - Spouse of Sister of Cui AngKinship Term: sister's husband / 妹夫 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife
Career and standing
- Label: Junior Tutor to the Crown Prince / 太子少傅Explicit · beiqishu:007:s0042
- Label: Northern Qi man of letters / 北齊文士Explicit · jiuwudaishi:010:s0061
- Status: dismissal · Action: removed · Reason: fawning and indulgence / 阿縱 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 河清二年正月己卯 · Western Year: AD 563Explicit · beiqishu:007:s0043
Places and affiliations
- Polity: Northern Qi / 北齊 · Relation: servedUncertain · weishu:019:s0082
- Place: Julu / 鉅鹿Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0087
Works and attributed material
- Work: biography of Emperor Mingyuan's six princes / 明元六王列傳 · Relation: author · Negated: true · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Song collation note / 宋人校語Explicit · weishu:019:s0082
- Work: History of Later Wei / 後魏書 · Relation: compiled · Provenance: Mode: historiography-office-memorialExplicit · jiuwudaishi:010:s0061
- Work: Abdication edicts and Nine Bestowals documents / 禪讓詔册、九錫建臺及勸進文表 · Relation: authorExplicit · beiqishu:030:s0122
- Work: biography of Erzhu Rong / 其父佳傳 · Relation: authorExplicit · beiqishu:048:s0043
- Work: Book of Wei / 魏書 · Relation: author
- Work: Wei shu / 魏書 · Relation: author
- Work: Weishu Jieyi biography / 魏書節義傳 · Relation: authorExplicit · weishu:093:s0172
- Work: Weishu / 魏書 · Relation: authorExplicit · weishu:098:s0233
Events and relationships
- Kind: scholarly · Role: compiler · Action: gathered officials' family histories, collated them, recovered lost material, and produced a dynastic history over several years · Provenance: Mode: historiography-office-memorialExplicit · jiuwudaishi:010:s0061
- Kind: scholarly · Role: author · Action: wrote favorable biography after receiving gold · Other Person Id: Erzhu Wenlüe (尒朱文略)Explicit · beiqishu:048:s0043
- Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0087
- Relation: successor-in-office-of · Person Id: Xu Zhicai (徐之才)Explicit · beiqishu:033:s0091
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: compared Erzhu Rong to Wei Qing, Peng Yue, Yi Yin, Huo Guang because of bribe · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · beiqishu:048:s0043
- Assessment: his book is incomplete · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Palace Edition textual verificationExplicit · weishu:098:s0233
References in the histories
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