Xu Longju (徐龍駒) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xu Longju as a courtier and eunuch. This record brings together 6 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 Longju	徐龍駒	Xu Longju
Given	Longju	龍駒	Longju

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · nanqishu:004:s0067

Roles

Courtier
Eunuch

Life and dates

Death

Manner: executed · Authority Person Id: Xiao Luan (蕭鸞) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 隆昌元年 · Western Year: AD 494
Explicit · nanqishu:004:s0101

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 隆昌元年 · Western Year: AD 494
Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:004:s0067

Career and standing

Label: rear-pavilion householder / 後閤舍人 · Action: held
Explicit · nanqishu:004:s0096
Status: eunuch-favorite
Explicit · nanqishu:004:s0067, nanqishu:004:s0096

References in the histories

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Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 4Volume 4 Annals 4: Prince of Yulin · 6 passages

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閹豎徐龍駒專總樞密，奉叔、珍之互執權柄，自以爲任得其人，表裏緝穆，邁蕭、曹而愈信、布，倚太山而坐平原。 The eunuch Xu Longju held the keys of state; Fengshu and Zhenzhi traded the levers of power, each sure the right men were in place—court and camp "smooth as silk," outdoing Xiao He and Cao Shen, more trusted than Xin and Bo, resting on Mount Tai as if the plain were enough.

毀世祖招婉殿，乞閹人徐龍駒爲齋。 He tore down Emperor Wu's Zhaowan Hall and asked the eunuch Xu Longju to keep a fast for him.

龍駒尤親幸，爲後閤舍人，日夜在六宮房內。 Longju was especially intimate, made householder of the rear pavilion, and day and night stayed in the six palaces' rooms.

昭業與文帝幸姬霍氏淫通，龍駒勸長留宮內，聲云度霍氏爲尼，以餘人代之。 Zhaoye lay with Emperor Wen's favored lady, Lady Huo; Longju urged him to linger in the palace, saying he would have Lady Huo take the tonsure and put another in her place.

高宗屢諫不納，先啓誅龍駒，次誅奉叔及珍之，帝竝不能違。 The High Ancestor warned him again and again, and was not heard. He asked first for Longju's head, then for Fengshu's and Zhenzhi's—and the emperor could refuse none of it.

出西弄，殺之，時年二十一，輿尸出徐龍駒宅，殯葬以王禮。 They took him to the Western Lane and killed him. He was twenty-one. His body was borne to Xu Longju's house and buried with the rites due a prince.