Xue Chao (薛超) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xue Chao as an attendant and military officer. This record brings together 2 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	Xue Chao	薛超	Xuē Chāo
Personal name	Xue Chao	薛超	Xuē Chāo

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

Attendant
Military Officer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 開運三年十二月 · Western Year: AD 946
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:085:s0046
Source Date: Text: 開運四年 · Western Year: AD 947
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:085:s0113

Events and relationships

Kind: personal · Role: actor · Action: prevented-suicide · Other Person Id: Shi Chonggui (石重貴)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:085:s0046

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 85Volume 85 Book of Later Jin 11: Emperor Shao 4 · 2 passages

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宮中相次火起，帝自攜劍驅擁后妃已下十數人，將同赴火，為親校薛超所持。 Fires broke out across the palace; the emperor drew his sword and drove the empress, consorts, and a dozen attendants toward the flames to die with them, but his personal guard Xue Chao seized him.

又行七八日至錦州，契丹迫帝與妃後往拜安巴堅遺像，帝不勝屈辱，泣曰：「薛超誤我，不令我死，以至今日也。」 Seven or eight days later at Jinzhou the Khitans forced the emperor and his consorts to bow before Ambaqan's portrait; overcome with shame he wept, "Xue Chao was wrong to keep me from death and bring me to this day."