Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and General

Wei Zai 韋載

Wéi Zài

Died AD 569

Passages
14
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Wei Zai as a general, hermit, landowner, and official. This record brings together 14 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Found inBook of Chen

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Wei Zai 韋載 Wéi Zài
Courtesy name Deji 德基 Déjī
Surname Wei 韋 Wéi
Surname Wei 韋 Wei
Personal name Wei Zai 韋載 Wéi Zài
Personal Wei Zai 韋載 Wei Zai
Given name Zai 載 Zài
Given Zai 載 Zai

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • General
  • Hermit
  • Landowner
  • Official
  • Strategist

Life and dates

Death

  • Place: at home / 於家 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太建中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 569 · End: AD 582
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0158

Age

  • Age: 12 · Reckoning: sui · Context: visited Liu Xian
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0131
  • Age: 58 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太建中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 569 · End: AD 582
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0158

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 天嘉元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 560
    Explicit event contextual date · chenshu:018:s0156
  • Source Date: Text: 侯景之亂 · Western Interval: Start: AD 548 · End: AD 552
    Explicit event contextual date · chenshu:018:s0134, chenshu:018:s0135
  • Source Date: Text: 太建中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 569 · End: AD 582
    Explicit event contextual date · chenshu:018:s0158
  • Source Date: Text: 永定二年 · Western Year: AD 558
    Explicit event contextual date · chenshu:018:s0154
  • Source Date: Text: 永定元年 · Western Year: AD 557
    Explicit event contextual date · chenshu:018:s0153

Family

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  • Descendant of Wei Rui (韋叡)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Child of Wei Zheng (韋政)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
  • Kin of Wei Ling (韋稜)
    Kinship Term: uncle / 叔父 · Line: paternal · Subject Role: nephew · Object Role: uncle
  • Kin of Wei Hui (韋翽)
    Kinship Term: younger clansman / 族弟 · Line: paternal · Subject Relative Age: elder
  • Kin of Wei Hui (韋翽)
    Kinship Term: younger clansman / 族弟 · Subject Role: elder-clansman · Object Role: younger-clansman · Subject Relative Age: elder

Career and standing

  • Label: Light-chariot general / 輕車將軍 · Action: advanced
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0154
  • Label: Administrator of Yixing / 義興太守 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0142
  • Label: Attendant of the secretariat / 中書侍郎 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0134
  • Label: Champion general and administrator of Langye / 冠軍將軍、琅邪太守 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0140
  • Label: General who establishes might and administrator of Xunyang / 建威將軍、尋陽太守 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0135
  • Label: General who harmonizes with the Rong / 和戎將軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0153
  • Label: Legal aide to the Prince of Shaoling / 邵陵王法曹參軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0133
  • Label: Scattered-cavalry regular attendant and right guard commandant to the crown prince / 散騎常侍、太子右衛率 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0155
  • Status: withdrawal · Action: entered · Label: shut out human affairs / 屏絕人事
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0157
  • Status: resigned · Action: left-office · Reason: illness / 疾 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天嘉元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 560
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0156

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Skill: knowledge of the Book of Han / 漢書 · Level: precocious
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0131

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Item: more than ten qing of land / 田十餘頃 · Relation: owned
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0157

References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 18Volume 18: Shen Zhong; Yuan Bi; Liu Zhongwei; Lu Shancai; Wang Zhi; Wei Zai · 14 passages
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文育攻之甚急，載所屬縣卒並高祖舊兵，多善用弩，載收得數十人，繫以長鎖，命所親監之，使射文育軍，約曰十發不兩中者則死，每發輒中，所中皆斃。 Wenyü attacked hard. Zai's county levies were many of the Founder's old soldiers and crack crossbowmen. He took several dozen, chained them in a row, set trusted men over them, and made them shoot at Wenyü's host on pain of death if they missed twice in ten tries. Every bolt found its mark and every man hit went down.