Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Administrator

Wei Yue 魏悅

Attested AD 424 - AD 452

Passages: 10
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Wei Yue as an administrator and official. This record brings together 10 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 Yue	魏悅	Wei Yue
Courtesy	Chude	處德	Chude
Surname	Wei	魏	Wei
Personal	Yue	悅	Yue

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · weishu:110:s0003

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 李孝伯 · Western Interval: Start: AD 424 · End: AD 452
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:110:s0003

Family

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Parent of Wei Zijian (魏子建)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Spouse of Wife of Wei Yue (魏悅妻)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife

Career and standing

Label: Administrator of Jiyin / 濟陰太守 · Action: held
Explicit · weishu:110:s0004

References in the histories

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Book of Wei, Chapter 110Volume 104: Author's Preface · 10 passages

歆子悅，[3]字處德，性沉厚有度量，宣城公趙國李孝伯見而重之，以女妻焉。 Xin's son Yue, [3] styled Chude, was grave, steady, and broad-minded. Li Xiaobo, Duke of Xuan Cheng in Zhao, took a liking to him and gave him his daughter in marriage.

悅子子建，字敬忠。 Yue's son Zijian, styled Jingzhong.

魏歆仕於漢成帝朝，而其子悅乃仕於元魏太武之世，此理之所必無者。 Wei Xin served under Emperor Cheng of Han, yet his son Yue served under Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei—something that reason flatly cannot accept.

歆子悅北史卷五六無「歆」字。 In "Xin's son Yue," scroll 56 of the Northern Dynasties omits the character "Xin."

按魏悅為北魏李孝伯壻，魏歆則漢成帝時人，相去四百餘年，豈得為父子。 Wei Yue of Northern Wei was Li Xiaobo's son-in-law, while Wei Xin lived under Emperor Cheng of Han—more than four centuries apart. They cannot have been father and son.

但唐書卷七二中宰相世系表魏氏下稱歆「二子，愉、悅」，則歆有子名悅，亦有旁證。 Yet the Tables of Chancellors' Lineages in scroll 72 of the New Book of Tang records under the Wei clan that Xin "had two sons, Yu and Yue"—so a son named Yue is attested.

至李孝伯之壻魏悅則魏子建之父，魏收之祖，見本書卷九一王叡附王椿傳、卷九二魏溥妻房氏傳，也無可疑。 The Wei Yue who was Li Xiaobo's son-in-law was father of Wei Zijian and grandfather of Wei Shou, as recorded in scroll 91 (biography of Wang Rui, with appended biography of Wang Chun) and scroll 92 (biography of Wei Pu's wife, née Fang)—and this is beyond question.

姓纂卷八和唐書世系表所著錄的後裔都是愉之後，悅的後裔無考。 Both the Xingzuan, scroll 8, and the Tang lineage tables record only the descendants of Yu; Yue's line cannot be traced.

疑本有兩魏悅，一是西漢鉅鹿太守歆之子，一是北魏末魏子建之父。 It is likely that two different men named Wei Yue were conflated—one the son of Xin, Administrator of Julu under Western Han, and one the father of Wei Zijian under late Northern Wei.

由於同名，傳抄時以此悅當彼悅，脫漏中間世系。 Because the names were identical, copyists substituted one Yue for the other and the intervening generations dropped out.