Overview
The translated histories identify Wei Shou as a historian, official, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 48 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Wei Shou | 魏收 | Wei Shou |
| Courtesy | Boqi | 伯起 | Boqi |
| Childhood | Fozhu | 佛助 | Fozhu |
| Personal | Shou | 收 | Shou |
| Alternate | Young Wei | 魏郎 |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · weishu:110:s0057
Roles
- Historian
- Official
- Scholar
- Writer
Life and dates
Age
- Age: 15 · Reckoning: suiExplicit · weishu:110:s0059
- Age: 26 · Reckoning: suiExplicit · weishu:110:s0072
- Age: 27 · Reckoning: suiExplicit · weishu:110:s0083
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 五年三月 · Western Year: AD 554Explicit event contextual date · weishu:110:s0134
- Source Date: Text: 天保元年 · Western Year: AD 550Explicit event contextual date · weishu:110:s0185
- Source Date: Text: 武定二年 · Western Year: AD 544Explicit event contextual date · weishu:110:s0097
- Source Date: Text: 永安三年 · Western Year: AD 530Explicit event contextual date · weishu:110:s0067
Family
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- Sibling of Wei Zuo (魏祚)Kinship Term: brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full
- Kin of Cui Xiaofen (崔孝芬)Kinship Term: maternal uncle / 舅 · Line: maternal
- Child of Mother of Wei Shou (魏收母)Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
- Child of Wei Zijian (魏子建)Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
- Sibling of Wei Zhongtong (魏仲同)Kinship Term: younger half-brother / 賤生弟 · Shared Parentage: paternal-half · Subject Relative Age: elder
Career and standing
- Label: Administrator of Wei Capital / 魏尹 · Action: appointedExplicit · weishu:110:s0122
- Label: Chief of the Northern Bureau of Receiving Guests / 北主客郎中 · Action: appointedExplicit · weishu:110:s0067
- Label: Director of the Secretariat / 中書令 · Action: appointedExplicit · weishu:110:s0185
- Label: Erudite of the Imperial Academy / 太學博士 · Action: appointedExplicit · weishu:110:s0065
- Label: Vice Director of the Secretariat / 中書侍郎 · Action: appointedExplicit · weishu:110:s0072
- Title: Viscount of Fuping / 富平縣子 · Action: enfeoffedExplicit · weishu:110:s0185
Places and affiliations
- Label: Northern Qi / 北齊 · Relation: servedExplicit · weishu:110:s0185
- Label: Northern Wei / 北魏 · Relation: servedExplicit · weishu:110:s0065
Learning and skills
- Skill: riding and archery / 騎射 · Level: practicedExplicit · weishu:110:s0060
- Skill: literary composition / 文 · Level: renownedExplicit · weishu:110:s0064
Works and attributed material
- Work: History of Wei / 魏書 · Relation: author
- Work: Rhapsody on the Court Bamboo / 庭竹賦 · Relation: authorExplicit · weishu:110:s0088
- Work: Rhapsody on the Southern Hunt / 南狩賦 · Relation: authorExplicit · weishu:110:s0083
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quote: trueExplicit · weishu:110:s0091, weishu:110:s0123
Events and relationships
- Kind: political · Role: survivor · Action: escaped-Heyin-massacreExplicit · weishu:110:s0065
- Explicit · weishu:110:s0093
References in the histories
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