Xu Ji (許寂) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xu Ji as a diviner, hermit, official, and scholar. This record brings together 8 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	Xu Ji	許寂	Xu Ji
Given name	Ji	寂	Ji
Epithet	Recluse	徵君
Courtesy name	Xianxian	閑閑	Xianxian
Personal name	Xu Ji	許寂	Xu Ji

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:071:s0144

Roles

Diviner
Hermit
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清泰三年六月 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0162

Age

Stated Age: 八十餘 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0162

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 同光末 · Western Year: AD 925
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:071:s0160
Source Date: Text: 天祐末 · Western Year: AD 907
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:071:s0156
Western Interval: Start: AD 888 · End: AD 904 · Source Date: Text: 昭宗聞其名，征赴闕，召對於內殿。
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0150
Source Date: Text: 清泰三年六月 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:071:s0162

Family

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Child of Father of Xu Ji (許寂之父)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Kinship Role: descendants · Count: 2
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0163

Career and standing

Label: Minister of Works / 工部尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同光末 · Western Year: AD 925
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0160
Label: chief minister of Shu / 蜀相 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0159

Places and affiliations

Polity: Former Shu · Relation: served
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0159

Learning and skills

Skill: Book of Changes imagery / 易象 · Level: especially skilled
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0146

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0152, jiuwudaishi:071:s0153, jiuwudaishi:071:s0154

Events and relationships

Relation: teacher-of · Person Id: Zhao Kuangning (趙匡凝)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0156

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 71Volume 71 Book of Later Tang 47: Biographies 23: Ma Yu, Si Kongting, Cao Tingyin, Xiao Xifu, Yao Zongzhi, Jia Fu, Ma Gao, Luo Guan, Chun Yuyan, Zhang Ge, Xu Ji, Zhou Xuanbao · 8 passages

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許寂，字閑閑。 Xu Ji, styled Xianxian.

寂少有山水之好，泛覽經史，窮三式，尤明《易》象。 From youth he loved landscape; he read widely in the classics and histories, mastered the Three Styles of divination, and was especially versed in the imagery of the Book of Changes.

〈（《太平廣記》云：寂學《易》於晉徵君。）〉 (The Taiping Guangji records that Ji studied the Changes under the Jin Recluse.)〉

會昭宗方與伶人調品篳篥，事訖，方命坐賜果，問《易》義。 Zhaozong happened to be tuning a pipe with his actor-favorites; when they finished, he had Ji seated, gave him fruit, and questioned him on the Changes.

既退，寂謂人曰：「君淫在聲，不在政矣。 After leaving audience he told others, "The ruler's excess lies in music, not in government.

唐末，除諫官，不起，漢南謂之徵君。 Late in Tang he was offered a remonstrating post but declined; south of the Han they called him the Recluse.

梁攻襄陽，匡凝兄弟棄鎮奔蜀，寂偕行。 When Liang attacked Xiangyang, the Kuangning brothers abandoned their post and fled to Shu, and Ji went with them.

時寂已年高，精彩猶健，衝漠寡言，時蜀語云「可怪可怪」，人莫知其際。 By then he was old, yet still vigorous and remote, saying little. In Shu they said "how strange, how strange," and no one knew what he meant.