Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Historian and Official

Wei Shou 魏收

Attested AD 530 - AD 554

Passages
48
Chapters
1
Histories
1

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

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Wei Shou 魏收 Wei Shou
Courtesy Boqi 伯起 Boqi
Childhood Fozhu 佛助 Fozhu
Personal Shou Shou
Alternate Young Wei 魏郎

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Historian
  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Writer

Life and dates

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 五年三月 · Western Year: AD 554
    Explicit event contextual date · weishu:110:s0134
  • Source Date: Text: 天保元年 · Western Year: AD 550
    Explicit event contextual date · weishu:110:s0185
  • Source Date: Text: 武定二年 · Western Year: AD 544
    Explicit event contextual date · weishu:110:s0097
  • Source Date: Text: 永安三年 · Western Year: AD 530
    Explicit event contextual date · weishu:110:s0067

Family

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Career and standing

  • Label: Administrator of Wei Capital / 魏尹 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · weishu:110:s0122
  • Label: Chief of the Northern Bureau of Receiving Guests / 北主客郎中 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · weishu:110:s0067
  • Label: Director of the Secretariat / 中書令 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · weishu:110:s0185
  • Label: Erudite of the Imperial Academy / 太學博士 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · weishu:110:s0065
  • Label: Vice Director of the Secretariat / 中書侍郎 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · weishu:110:s0072
  • Title: Viscount of Fuping / 富平縣子 · Action: enfeoffed
    Explicit · weishu:110:s0185

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Skill: riding and archery / 騎射 · Level: practiced
    Explicit · weishu:110:s0060
  • Skill: literary composition / 文 · Level: renowned
    Explicit · weishu:110:s0064

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

References in the histories

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Book of Wei, Chapter 110Volume 104: Author's Preface · 48 passages
按「成帝世」三字,北史卷五六魏收傳無,當取他書增,據元和姓纂輯本卷八魏氏稱「漢鉅鹿太守歆,居鉅鹿」,錢氏謂成帝謂漢成帝,是。 Examination shows that the phrase "in the reign of Emperor Cheng" does not appear in scroll 56 of the Northern Dynasties; it was likely added from another source. The reconstructed Yuanhe Xingzuan, scroll 8, records under the Wei clan that "Xin, Administrator of Julu under the Han, dwelt in Julu." Qian's identification of Emperor Cheng as Emperor Cheng of Han is correct.