Xue Tinggui (薛廷珪)

Overview

The translated histories identify Xue Tinggui as an official and writer. This record brings together 12 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xue Tinggui	薛廷珪	Xue Tinggui
Given name	Tinggui	廷珪	Tinggui
Surname	Xue	薛	Xue
Personal name	Xue Tinggui	薛廷珪	Xue Tinggui

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:031:s0036
Sex: male
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Roles

Official
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同光三年九月 · Western Year: AD 925
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 中和年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 881 · End: AD 885
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Source Date: Text: 同光三年九月 · Western Year: AD 925
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Source Date: Text: 同光二年 · Western Year: AD 924
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Family

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Child of Xue Feng (薛逢)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

Label: Drafting Secretary in the Secretariat / 中書舍人 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾寧中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 894 · End: AD 898
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Label: Mentor of the Heir Apparent / 太子少師 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 莊宗平定河南 · Western Interval: Start: AD 923 · End: AD 923
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Label: Minister of Rites / 禮部尚書 · Action: appointed
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Label: Vice Minister of Rites / 禮部侍郎 · Action: appointed
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Label: Right Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs / 右僕射 · Action: posthumously-granted
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Status: retirement · Action: entered
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Places and affiliations

Place: Hedong / 河東 · Relation: ancestral
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Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中和年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 881 · End: AD 885
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Works and attributed material

Work: Phoenix Pavilion Literary Writings / 鳳閣詞書 · Relation: author
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Work: Record of Honoring the Family / 克家志 · Relation: author
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
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Events and relationships

Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: refused-bow · Other Person Id: Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠) · Place: Bian / 汴
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Kind: political · Role: target · Action: spared · Other Person Id: Liu Can (柳璨)
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Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Li Qi (李琪)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: literary learning; model for gentry · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 31Volume 31 Book of Later Tang 7: Zhuangzong Annals 5 · 1 passage

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戊午，以前太子少師薛廷珪為檢校戶部尚書、太子少師致仕； On wuwu Xue Tinggui was made acting revenue minister and retired Grand Mentor;

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 11 passages

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薛廷珪，其先河東人也。 Xue Tinggui came of a Hedong family.

廷珪，中和年在西川登進士第，累曆台省。 Tinggui earned his jinshi degree in Sichuan during the Zhonghe era and rose through a series of central-government posts.

昭宗遷洛陽，征為禮部侍郎。 When Emperor Zhaozong relocated to Luoyang, Tinggui was recalled and appointed Vice Minister of Rites.

時柳璨屠害朝士，衣冠畢罹其毒，廷珪以居常退讓獲全。 When Liu Can was butchering court officials, the entire official class fell victim to him; Tinggui alone escaped harm through his habitual modesty and restraint.

〈（《新唐書》：朱全忠兼四鎮，廷珪以官告使至汴，客將先見，諷其拜。 (The New Book of Tang records that when Zhu Quanzhong held four military circuits at once, Tinggui came to Bian as the bearer of his commission of office. A host officer received him first and suggested obliquely that he should bow.

廷珪佯不曉，曰：「吾何德，敢受令公拜乎！」 Tinggui feigned not to understand and said, "What merit have I that I should accept a bow from Your Lordship!"

莊宗平定河南，以廷珪年老，除太子少師致仕。 After Zhuangzong pacified Henan, Tinggui was granted retirement as Mentor of the Heir Apparent on account of his advanced age.

〈（《通鑒》：廷珪與李琪嘗為太祖冊禮使。）〉 (The Zizhi Tongjian notes that Tinggui and Li Qi had once served together as ritual commissioners for Taizu's investiture.)〉

初，廷珪父逢，著《鑿混沌》、《真珠簾》等賦，大為時人所稱。 Tinggui's father Feng had earlier written celebrated rhapsodies such as Boring Through Chaos and Pearl Curtain that won wide praise in their day.

廷珪既壯，亦著賦數十篇，同為一集，故目曰《克家志》。 When Tinggui came of age he too wrote several dozen rhapsodies and collected them in one volume, which he titled Record of Honoring the Family.

如廷珪之文學，崔沂之剛正，劉嶽之典禮，舜卿之掌誥，洎夢徵而下，皆蔚有貞規，無虧懿範，固可以為搢紳之圭表，聳朝廷之羽儀，以之垂名，夫何不韙。 Men such as Tinggui in letters, Yi in integrity, Yue in ritual, Shunqing in edict drafting, and from Mengzheng downward all upheld steadfast standards without blemish on their reputations. They may serve as models for the official class and ornaments of the court. To leave such names to posterity — what could be more fitting?