Xiege (斜葛) | 24 Histories

Overview

Xiege was an envoy.

PeriodSong, Liao, and Jin

IdentityHistorical · Male

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Attested activity

AD 1104 二年甲申
Dated from the passage context · History of Jin 135, passage 36
AD 1103 穆宗十年癸未
Dated from the passage context · History of Jin 135, passage 24

Assessments and attributes

Assessment unable to adjudicate disputes; burdensome to the people · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Jin 135, passage 37

References in the histories

History of Jin, Chapter 135Volume 135 Biographies 73: Foreign Countries 2: Goryeo, Explanation of the Language of the State of Jin, Official Titles, Human Affairs, Art, Classes of Objects, Family Names · 5 passages

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未幾，複使斜葛與斡魯罕往聘，高麗王曰：「斜葛，女直之族弟也，其禮有加矣。」 Not long after, he sent Xiege and Woluhan on another mission. The Goryeo king remarked, "Xiege is a junior kinsman of the Jurchen chiefs—let his reception be especially generous."

斜葛在高麗及往來曷懶道中，具知其事，遂使石適歡往納曷懶甸人。 Xiege learned the full story while in Goryeo and on the Halin road, and sent Shi Shihuan to bring the Halin tribes in.

遂使斜葛經正疆界，至乙離骨水、曷懶甸活禰水，留之兩月。 Xiege was then sent to demarcate the border as far as the Yiliguri and Halin Huonie rivers, and remained on the task for two months.

斜葛不能聽訟，每一事輒至枝蔓，民頗苦之。 Xiege proved incapable of adjudicating disputes—every case sprawled into endless complications, and the people found it burdensome.

康宗召斜葛還，而遣石適歡往。 Kangzong recalled Xiege and replaced him with Shi Shihuan.