Xu Taifu (徐臺符) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xu Taifu as an official, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 8 passages from 5 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xu Taifu	徐臺符	Xu Taifu
Given name	Taifu	臺符	Taifu
Title	Vice Minister of Punishments and acting supervisor of the examinations	刑部侍郎、權知貢舉
Surname	Xu	徐	Xu
Alternate	Xu Taifu	徐臺符	Xu Taifu
Personal name	Xu Taifu	徐臺符	Xu Taifu
Personal name	Xu Taifu	徐臺符	Xú Táifú
Personal name	Xu Taifu	徐台符	Xú Táifú
Surname		徐	Xu
Given		臺符	Taifu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0082, xinwudaishi:031:s0039
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:148:s0065
Value: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0037

Roles

Official
Scholar
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Description: died / 卒 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:115:s0187

Attested activity

Western Year: AD 947 · Source Date: Text: Chronology stated or entailed by s0037
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Source Date: Text: 世宗之時 · Western Year: AD 954
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:031:s0039
Source Date: Text: 廣順三年 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:130:s0082
Source Date: Text: 廣順三年八月 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0065
Source Date: Text: 顯德二年 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:115:s0059

Career and standing

Label: acting supervisor of the examinations / 權知貢舉 · Action: held · Source Date: Text: 廣順三年八月 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0065
Label: Hanlin academician / 翰林學士 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0082
Label: Vice Minister of Punishments / 刑部侍郎 · Action: held · Source Date: Text: 廣順三年八月 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0065
Description: Hanlin academician-in-chief / 翰林學士承旨 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:115:s0059, jiuwudaishi:115:s0187
Office: Hanlin academician
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0037

Places and affiliations

Label: Later Zhou / 周 · Relation: served
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0065
Polities: Later Jin, Khitan
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0037

Works and attributed material

Description: led the close advisers ordered to submit two policy essays / 奉命與近臣進論策 · Western Year: AD 955
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:115:s0059, jiuwudaishi:115:s0063
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 廣順三年八月 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0065

Events and relationships

Event: accompanied Wuyu against Shulü · Kind: historical-event · Action: accompanied Wuyu against Shulü
Explicit · xinwudaishi:073:s0037
Kind: scholarly · Role: selected-author · Action: composed-policy-essays
Explicit · xinwudaishi:031:s0039
Kind: political · Role: memorialist · Action: retained-paste-classics-and-ink-meaning · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 廣順三年八月 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0065, jiuwudaishi:148:s0066

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:148:s0065

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 115Volume 115 Book of Later Zhou 17: Shizong Annals 2 · 3 passages

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是月，詔翰林學士承旨徐臺符已下二十餘人，各撰《為君難為臣不易論》、《平邊策》各一首，帝親覽之。 That month the Emperor ordered Hanlin chief Xu Taifu and more than twenty colleagues each to write an essay On the Difficulty of Being Ruler and Minister and a Border-Pacification Stratagem, which he read personally.

乃命承旨徐臺符已下二十餘人，各撰《為君難為臣不易論》、《平邊策》以進。 He then ordered chief academician Xu Taifu and more than twenty others each to submit the two essays named above.

是日，翰林學士承旨徐臺符卒。 That same day Hanlin chief academician Xu Taifu died.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 130Volume 130 Book of Later Zhou 32: Biographies 10: Wang Jun, Murong Yanchao, Yan Honglu, Cui Zhoudu · 1 passage

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即召翰林學士徐臺符等草制。 He at once summoned the Hanlin academician Xu Taifu and others to draft the demotion edict.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 148Volume 148: Treatises 10 Selection of Officials · 1 passage

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其年八月，刑部侍郎、權知貢舉徐臺符奏：「請別試雜文外，其帖經、墨義，仍依元格。」 In the eighth month of that year, Xu Taifu, Vice Minister of Punishments and acting supervisor of the examinations, asked that aside from the new literary tests, paste classics and ink meaning remain under the original rules."

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 31Volume 31 Later Zhou Biographies 11: Wang Pu, Zheng Renhui, Hu Zai · 2 passages

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數顧大臣問治道，選文學之士徐臺符等二十人，使作《為君難為臣不易論》及《平邊策》，朴在選中。 Again and again he asked his ministers how to rule. He picked twenty literary men, Xu Taifu among them, and set them to write “On the Difficulty of Being Ruler and the Difficulty of Being Minister” and “Pacifying the Borderlands”—Pu was chosen.

是時，天子英武，樂延天下奇才，而尤禮文士，載與張昭、竇儼、陶穀、徐臺符等俱被進用。 The Son of Heaven was bold and martial, hungry for extraordinary men, and especially honored men of letters. Zai, with Zhang Zhao, Dou Yan, Tao Gu, Xu Taifu, and others, all rose into office.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 73Volume 73: Appendix on the Four Barbarians 2: Khitan 2 · 1 passage

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以翰林學士徐台符、李澣從行，與其祖母述律相距于石橋。 Hanlin academicians Xu Taifu and Li Huan went with him and confronted his grandmother Shulü at Shiqiao.