Wei Shu 魏舒

Other names

Family

• Kin of Wei Huang (魏晃)
  collateral grandson 從孫 · paternal line · 2 generations
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 94
• Ancestor of Wei Rong (魏融)
  grandson by a concubine's line 庶孫 · paternal line · 2 generations
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 93
• Parent of Wei Hun (魏混)
  son 子 · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 85, 89

• Kinship Role sons · Count 1
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 89
• Kinship Role nine kinships · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 57

Career and standing

• Minister of Education 司徒
  AD 283 以舒領司徒 · Acting
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 56
• Minister of Education 司徒
  AD 283 有頃即真 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 56
• middle appraiser of Yan Province 兗州中正
  AD 283 to AD 290 署兗州中正 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 61
• Minister of Education 司徒
  AD 290 今聽其所執，以劇陽子就第 · Resigned
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 75
• excused from court with stool and staff 几杖不朝
  AD 290 几杖不朝 · Granted
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 76
• posthumous name Kang 諡康
  Granted
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 84

Places and affiliations

• Polity Western Jin 西晉 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 56, 69, 81
• AD 283 to AD 290 署兗州中正
  At Yan Province 兗州 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 61

Works and attributed material

• Letter · Addressee · With Wei Guan (衛瓘) · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 82
• Letter · Addressee · With Xi Shen (郤詵) · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 62-64
• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 87

Events and relationships

• Cited portents and offered to retire
  AD 283 to AD 290 後以災異遜位 · Ritual · Subject
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 66
• Mourned his son then ceased weeping after the full mourning period
  Personal · Mourner · With Wei Hun (魏混)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 87-88
• Pleaded illness to resign
  AD 283 to AD 290 以年老，每稱疾遜位 · Personnel · Subject
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 60, 65
• Resigned without prior notice
  Political · Subject
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 80
• Returned seals and ribbons after New Year court
  AD 290 後因正旦朝罷還第 · Political · Subject
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 67
• Summoned
  AD 283 to AD 289 舒乃命之 · Personnel · Appointer · With Zhou Zhen (周震)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 59

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment comprehending destiny · Mode named-source-report
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 59
• Assessment embodies the Way; loyal, grave, upright; a great pillar of the court · Mode quotation Speaker Emperor of Jin (帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passages 69, 72
• Assessment moral authority and high prestige; scattered stipends among the nine kinships; household had no surplus wealth · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 57
• Assessment since Jin's rise, no Three Dukes had declined glory and ended so well · Mode named-source-report
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 81
• AD 290 賜錢百萬
  Item one million cash 錢百萬 · Relation Bestowed
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 76
• Item bed-curtains, mats, and bedding 床帳簟褥 · Relation Bestowed
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 76

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 41, passage 56