Overview
The translated histories identify Xue Jun as an administrator, diviner, judge, and named individual. This record brings together 16 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Xue Jun | 薛琡 | Xue Jun |
| Courtesy name | Tanzhen | 曇珍 | Tanzhen |
| Personal name | Xue Chu | 薛琡 | Xue Chu |
| Personal name | Xue Chu | 薛琡 | Xuē Chù |
| Personal name | Xue Xu | 薛琡 | |
| Given | 琡 | Chu | |
| Surname | 薛 | Xue |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: male
Roles
- Administrator
- Diviner
- Judge
- Named Individual
- Official
- Statesman
Life and dates
Death
- Manner: died in office after promotions / 卒Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0046
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 吏部郎中臣薛琡 · Western Interval: Start: AD 528 · End: AD 530Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:047:s0031
- Source Date: Text: 天平初 · Western Year: AD 534Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:026:s0035
- Source Date: Text: 正光中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 525Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:026:s0009
- Source Date: Text: 武定 · Western Interval: Start: AD 543 · End: AD 550Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:025:s0046, beiqishu:025:s0047
- Source Date: Text: 沙苑之敗 · Western Year: AD 537Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:026:s0038, beiqishu:026:s0045
- Source Date: Text: 齊受禪後 · Western Year: AD 550Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:030:s0200
Family
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- Child of Xue Biaozi (薛彪子)Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
- Spouse of Yu (于氏)Kinship Term: former wife / 前妻 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: ended · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife
- Parent of Son of Xue Chu (薛琡子)Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
- Spouse of Zhang (張氏)Kinship Term: wife / 婦 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: active · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife
- Kinship Role: sons · Count: 2 · Count Note: plural 其子; exact number unstatedExplicit · beiqishu:026:s0047
Origins and identity
- Ethnicity: Dai people / 代人 · Scope: ancestralExplicit · beiqishu:026:s0003
- Clan: Chigan clan / 叱干氏 · Note: original surname before XueExplicit · beiqishu:026:s0003
Career and standing
- Label: official / 官Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0006, beiqishu:026:s0014
- Label: mobile headquarters minister of the masters of writing / 行臺尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元天穆討邢杲 · Western Year: AD 529Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:026:s0025
- Label: chief administrator of the chancellor's office / 丞相長史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天平初 · Western Year: AD 534Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:026:s0035
- Label: acting magistrate of Luoyang / 行洛陽令 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 正光中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 525Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:026:s0009
- Label: director of guests for audiences / 典客令 · Action: heldExplicit · beiqishu:026:s0006
- Label: vice director of the masters of writing / 尚書僕射 · Action: heldExplicit · beiqishu:026:s0046
- Label: Ministry of Personnel / 吏部 · Action: transferred-toExplicit · beiqishu:026:s0014
- Label: posthumous inspector of Qing Province / 贈青州刺史 · Action: bestowedExplicit · beiqishu:026:s0055
- Status: posthumous-office · Action: receivedExplicit · beiqishu:026:s0055
Places and affiliations
- Polity: Wei / 魏 · Relation: servedExplicit · beiqishu:026:s0007, beiqishu:026:s0009
- Place: Henan / 河南Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0002
- Place: Luoyang / 洛陽 · Relation: posted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 正光中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 525Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:026:s0009
- Organization: chancellor's office / 丞相府 · Relation: served-in · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天平初 · Western Year: AD 534Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:026:s0035
Learning and skills
- Skill: judicial examination without torture / 辭理窮覈 · Level: renownedExplicit · beiqishu:026:s0010
Works and attributed material
- Kind: counsel · Role: speaker · Quoted: false
- Kind: deathbed-charge · Role: speaker · Quoted: false
- Explicit · beiqishu:025:s0047, beiqishu:025:s0048
- Kind: memorial · Role: author · Quoted: true
- Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0008
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Events and relationships
- Kind: military · Role: counselor · Action: advised against crossing the river · Other Person Id: Gao Huan (高歡) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 沙苑之敗 · Western Year: AD 537
- Kind: military · Role: staff-officer · Action: advised attacking Yuan Hao before Xing Gao · Other Person Id: Yuan Tianmu (元天穆) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元天穆討邢杲 · Western Year: AD 529
- Kind: domestic · Role: husband · Action: affair with then marriage to Zhang; drove off former wife Yu; refused to acknowledge son · Other Person Id: Zhang (張氏)Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0053, beiqishu:026:s0054
- Kind: judicial · Role: magistrate · Action: kept Luoyang jails nearly empty during drought review · Place: Luoyang / 洛陽 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 正光中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 525Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:026:s0012, beiqishu:026:s0013
- Kind: political · Role: remonstrant · Action: opposed Cui Liang halt-by-years selection rule · Other Person Id: Cui Liang (崔亮)
- Kind: political · Role: remonstrant · Action: proposed restoring Han four categories for recommending officials
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: dangerous and jealous; outwardly square, inwardly unstable; took bribes and harmed many; feared and hated · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · beiqishu:026:s0051, beiqishu:026:s0052
- Assessment: deeply scorned by the age for family conduct · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · beiqishu:026:s0054
- Assessment: known from youth for competence and resolve · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · beiqishu:026:s0005
- Kind: physical-description · Statement: tall and imposing of bearingExplicit · beiqishu:026:s0005
- Item: funeral carriage of his own making without ornament / 自制喪車 · Relation: madeExplicit · beiqishu:026:s0048
- Item: hundred bolts of silk / 縑百疋 · Relation: bestowed · Other Person Id: Emperor Xiaoming of Wei (魏孝明帝)Explicit · beiqishu:026:s0013
Source notes
- Statement: charged sons not to solicit posthumous office; plain burial without spirit objects · Negated solicitation: trueExplicit · beiqishu:026:s0047, beiqishu:026:s0049
References in the histories
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