Xue Jun (薛濬) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xue Jun as an aristocrat, named individual, official, and scholar. This record brings together 18 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 Jun	薛濬	Xuē Jùn
Courtesy	Daoyin	道賾	Dàozé
Courtesy name	Daozhen	道賾	Daozhen
Surname	Xue	薛	Xue
Personal name	Xue Daozhen	道賾	Xue Daozhen

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · suishu:072:s0255
Value: male
Explicit · suishu:072:s0065, suishu:072:s0111

Roles

Aristocrat
Named Individual
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died immediately after completing his letter
Explicit · suishu:072:s0095

Age

Age: 42 · Unit: years · Context: at death
Explicit · suishu:072:s0095, suishu:072:s0110

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: undated Sui-period biography · Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 618
Explicit event contextual date · suishu:072:s0255, suishu:072:s0256
Source Date: Text: 周天和中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 566 · End: AD 572
Explicit · suishu:072:s0070
Source Date: Text: 時初平江陵 · Western Year: AD 554
Explicit · suishu:072:s0068, suishu:072:s0069
Source Date: Text: 開皇初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 600
Explicit · suishu:072:s0071, suishu:072:s0072, suishu:072:s0073, suishu:072:s0074, suishu:072:s0075, suishu:072:s0077, suishu:072:s0078, suishu:072:s0080, suishu:072:s0095, suishu:072:s0096

Family

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Child of Xue Yan (薛琰)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Mother of Xue Jun (薛濬之母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Parent of Xue Qianfu (薛乾福)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Sibling of Xue Mo (薛謨)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Role: elder brother · Object Role: younger brother · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full
Kin of Xue Zhou (薛胄)
Kinship Term: younger cousin / 從祖弟 · Subject Role: younger cousin · Object Role: elder cousin · Subject Relative Age: younger

Career and standing

Label: magistrate of Xinfeng / 新豐令 · Action: held
Explicit · suishu:072:s0070
Label: Senior Clerk of the Remonstrance Bureau / 納言上士 · Action: held
Explicit · suishu:072:s0070
Label: Vice Director of the Parks Office in the Secretariat / 尚書虞部侍郎 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開皇初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 600
Explicit · suishu:072:s0071
Label: Vice Director of the Bureau of Evaluations / 考功侍郎 · Action: transferred
Explicit · suishu:072:s0071, suishu:072:s0096
Label: imperial gifts for filial devotion to his elderly mother / 賜輿服機杖，四時珍味 · Action: occasioned · Authority Person Id: Emperor Wen (隋高祖) · Recipient Person Id: Mother of Xue Jun (薛濬之母)
Explicit · suishu:072:s0072
Label: imperial patent, condolence sacrifice, and increased offerings / 冊書弔祭、奠酹有加 · Action: received-posthumously · Authority Person Id: Emperor Wen (隋高祖)
Explicit · suishu:072:s0096, suishu:072:s0099, suishu:072:s0100
Title: Marquis of Yucheng / 虞城侯 · Action: inherited · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 周天和中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 566 · End: AD 572
Explicit · suishu:072:s0070
Status: recalled-before-completing-mourning · Action: ordered-to-resume-office
Explicit · suishu:072:s0077

Places and affiliations

Place: Chang'an / 長安 · Relation: traveled-to-seek-teacher
Explicit · suishu:072:s0068

Learning and skills

Subject: learning / 學 · Relation: loved-from-childhood
Explicit · suishu:072:s0068
Subject: classics / 經業 · Teacher Person Id: He Tuo (何妥) · Relation: studied
Explicit · suishu:072:s0069

Works and attributed material

Kind: farewell-letter · Role: author · Other Person Id: Xue Mo (薛謨) · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Xue Jun (薛濬)
Explicit · suishu:072:s0081, suishu:072:s0082, suishu:072:s0083, suishu:072:s0084, suishu:072:s0085, suishu:072:s0086, suishu:072:s0087, suishu:072:s0088, suishu:072:s0089, suishu:072:s0090, suishu:072:s0091, suishu:072:s0092, suishu:072:s0093, suishu:072:s0094, suishu:072:s0095
Kind: historian-comment · Role: subject
Explicit · suishu:072:s0255, suishu:072:s0256
Kind: petitions · Role: author · Purpose: requested completion of full mourning period · Outcome: denied
Explicit · suishu:072:s0077

Events and relationships

Kind: omen · Role: witness · Action: as a boy saw a yellow serpent with horns and feet that no other children could see · Provenance: Mode: historian-narrative
Explicit · suishu:072:s0103, suishu:072:s0104, suishu:072:s0105
Kind: medical-and-mourning · Role: son · Action: became unrecognizably haggard while his mother was ill · Other Person Id: Mother of Xue Jun (薛濬之母)
Explicit · suishu:072:s0073
Kind: ritual · Role: mourner · Action: carried-earth-to-build-tomb-nearly-ruining-health
Explicit · suishu:072:s0255, suishu:072:s0256
Kind: bereavement · Role: son · Action: lost his father in childhood · Other Person Id: Xue Yan (薛琰)
Explicit · suishu:072:s0067
Kind: life-history · Role: self-reporter · Action: reported childhood hardship, poverty, early orphanhood, determined study, and twenty-three years of court service · Provenance: Mode: self-report · Source Person Id: Xue Jun (薛濬)
Explicit · suishu:072:s0082, suishu:072:s0083, suishu:072:s0084, suishu:072:s0085
Kind: mourning · Role: self-reporter · Action: reported that he and his brother were forced to abandon mourning · Other Person Id: Xue Mo (薛謨) · Provenance: Mode: self-report · Source Person Id: Xue Jun (薛濬)
Explicit · suishu:072:s0087, suishu:072:s0088
Kind: funeral · Role: son · Action: returned to bury his mother at Xiayang · Other Person Id: Mother of Xue Jun (薛濬之母)
Explicit · suishu:072:s0074
Kind: deathbed · Role: self-reporter · Action: waited ten days hoping to bid his brother farewell · Other Person Id: Xue Mo (薛謨) · Provenance: Mode: self-report · Source Person Id: Xue Jun (薛濬)
Explicit · suishu:072:s0091, suishu:072:s0092, suishu:072:s0093
Kind: mourning-journey · Role: mourner · Action: walked barefoot over five hundred li through frost and snow; his toes froze off and his feet bled · Place: from the capital to his home district / 自京及鄉
Explicit · suishu:072:s0075
Relation: student-of · Person Id: He Tuo (何妥)
Explicit · suishu:072:s0069

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: his grief and emaciation moved Gaozu and the court · Provenance: Mode: named-person-judgment · Source Person Id: Emperor Wen (隋高祖)
Explicit · suishu:072:s0078, suishu:072:s0079
Assessment: pure and frugal by nature · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · suishu:072:s0102
Assessment: renowned for filial support of his mother · Provenance: Mode: contemporary-reputation
Explicit · suishu:072:s0067
Assessment: though violating measured norms of former kings, excess reveals humanity · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · suishu:072:s0255, suishu:072:s0256
身誓山河
Explicit · suishu:072:s0255
Kind: health · Statement: fell mortally ill because he could not survive his grief
Explicit · suishu:072:s0080
Item: condolence gifts / 賵助 · Relation: refused-all
Explicit · suishu:072:s0076
Item: household wealth / 家資 · Relation: left-none-at-death · Negated: true
Explicit · suishu:072:s0102

Source notes

Kind: prophecy · Statement: an unnamed foreign monk predicted early fame and office and a lifespan not exceeding six times seven years · Outcome: fulfilled at age forty-two · Provenance: Mode: prophecy · Source Role: unnamed foreign monk
Explicit · suishu:072:s0107, suishu:072:s0108, suishu:072:s0109, suishu:072:s0110