Wei Shu 魏舒

Other names

Family

• Kin of Wei Heng (魏衡)
  father's cousin / paternal collateral uncle 從叔父 · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 8
• Child of Father of Wei Shu
  father 父 · paternal line · Ended
  Strongly inferred · Book of Jin 41, passage 2
• Child of Mother of Wei Shu
  mother 母 · maternal line
  Strongly inferred · Book of Jin 41, passages 2, 4

• Kinship Role wife · Count 1
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 13
• Kinship Role wives · Count 3
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 48
• Kinship Role children · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 13

Origins and identity

• Line paternal · Surname Wei 魏
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 1, 4

Career and standing

• Left Vice-Director of the Masters of Writing 左僕射
  AD 280 太康初 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 51
• Right Vice-Director of the Masters of Writing 右僕射
  AD 280 太康初 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 49
• Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary 散騎常侍
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 43
• chief clerk to the Rear General 後將軍長史
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 32
• chief of Mianchi 澠池長
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 26
• gentleman of the Masters of Writing 尚書郎
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 26

Places and affiliations

• AD 280 太康初
  Polity Western Jin 西晉 · Relation Served
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 41, passages 46, 49
• Polity Cao Wei 曹魏 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · Book of Jin 41, passages 26, 32, 38
• At Fan in Rencheng commandery 任城樊
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 1
• AD 266 to AD 280 武帝
  At native commandery 本郡 · Relation Returned to for burial
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 41, passage 48
• At Ji Province 冀州 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 44
• At Junyi 浚儀 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 26

Learning and skills

• drew up a strict course of study; mastered one classic in a hundred days
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 24-25
• Earned
  Credential policy examination placement 對策升第
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 25
• Nominated
  AD 240 to AD 260 年四十餘 · Credential Filial and Incorrupt 孝廉
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 21
• Skill riding and archery 騎射 · Level practiced
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 11
• Skill archery 射 · Level unmatched in Zhong Yu's company
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 35-36

Works and attributed material

• selection for the six palaces: investiture envoys should match ritual rank
  AD 280 太康初 · Memorial · Author · Mode memorial Speaker Wei Shu (魏舒)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 52-53
• begged leave to return to the native commandery to bury his wife
  AD 266 to AD 280 武帝 · Memorial · Author · Mode memorial Speaker Wei Shu (魏舒)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 48
• I am one of those you mean to remove.
  Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Wei Shu (魏舒)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 29
• If I sit the examination and fail, the fault is mine; I will not borrow the empty fame of refusing office and call it honor.
  Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Wei Shu (魏舒)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 23
• It falls to me to fulfill that houselot prophecy for our mother's family.
  Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Wei Shu (魏舒)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 5

Events and relationships

• Accepted Wang Yi's relief of household want without declining
  Aid · Recipient · With Wang Yi (王乂)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 14
• After each court session Prince Wen watched him withdraw and praised him
  AD 263 to AD 265 文帝 · Court · Official · With Emperor Wen (文帝)
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 41, passage 41
• Claimed he would fulfill the Ning houselot prophecy of a distinguished nephew
  Omen · Subject
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 3, 5
• Kinsmen urged him not to take office for want of classical learning; he refused the empty honor of declining
  Career · Nominee
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 22-23
• Moved to a separate household after many years
  Household · Dependent
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 6
• Nocturnal voices named Lord Wei Shu and predicted a host's son would die by weapons at fifteen; fifteen years later the boy had died by an axe while pruning mulberry
  Omen · Sleeper named · At Yewang 野王
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 15-19

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment colleagues without a reputation for integrity were ashamed; discussants praised him · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 31
• Assessment destined for the highest councils (台輔) but then unable to keep wife and children from hunger and cold · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Wang Yi (王乂)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 13
• Assessment earned wide acclaim as governor of Yiyang and Xingyang · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 42
• Assessment imposing; a leader among men (人之領袖) · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Emperor Wen (文帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 41
• Assessment in routine bureau paperwork never picked petty quarrels; on great questions of abolishing and raising, quietly planned beyond the assembly · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 39-40
• Assessment not esteemed by townsmen and kin; thought slow and unpolished · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 7

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 1