Sui and Tang · Official and Writer

Xue Daoheng 薛道衡

Died AD 581

Passages: 3
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Xue Daoheng was an official and Writer.

Life and dates

Death

AD 581 to AD 609 薛道衡真為枉死
Killed · Judgment wrongly killed · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Zhang Heng (張衡)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 56, passage 255

Attested activity

AD 589 to AD 592 歲餘 after 八年, 會何妥奏蘇威
Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 56, passage 48
AD 581 to AD 604 薛道衡嘗薦之隋文帝
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 84, passage 247
AD 581 to AD 609 薛道衡真為枉死
Strongly inferred · Book of Sui 56, passage 255

Key source chapters

Places and affiliations

Polity Sui 隋 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Sui 56, passage 48

Events and relationships

Distinguished gentry streams
Administrative · Colleague · With Lu Kai (盧愷)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 56, passage 48
Relation Recommender of · Person Zu Junyan (祖君彥)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 84, passage 247

References in the histories

Book of Sui, Chapter 56Volume 56 Biographies 21: Lu Kai, Ling Huxi, Xue Zhou, Yu Wenbi, Zhang Heng, Yang Wang · 2 passages

自周氏以降，選無清濁，及愷攝吏部，與薛道衡、陸彥師等甄別士流，故涉黨固之譖，遂及於此。 Since Zhou times official selection had made no distinction between worthy and unworthy. When Kai took charge of personnel, he worked with Xue Daoheng and Lu Yanshi to sort the gentry by merit, and thus incurred the slander of forming a solid clique—which brought him to this end.

及與衡相見，未有所言，又先謂玄感曰：「薛道衡真為枉死。」 When he met Heng, before anything was said Heng first told Xuangan, "Xue Daoheng was truly wrongly killed."

New Book of Tang, Chapter 84Volume 84 Biographies 9: Li, Mi · 1 passage

薛道衡嘗薦之隋文帝，帝曰：「是非殺斛律明月人兒邪？ Xue Daoheng once recommended him to Emperor Wen of Sui. The emperor said, "Is this not the son of the man who killed Hulü Mingyue?