Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and Courtier

Xun Boyu 荀伯玉

Died AD 483

Passages
31
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Xun Boyu as a courtier, diviner, military officer, and official. This record brings together 31 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Xun Boyu 荀伯玉 Xun Boyu
Given Boyu 伯玉
Title Marquis of Xinting 新亭侯
Courtesy name Nongzhang 弄璋 Nòngzhāng
Title Viscount of Nanfeng 南豐縣子
Surname Xun 荀
Personal name Xun Boyu 荀伯玉
Personal name Xun Boyu 荀伯玉 Xún Bóyù

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Courtier
  • Diviner
  • Military Officer
  • Official

Life and dates

Death

Age

Attested activity

Family

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  • Child of Xun Chanzhi (荀闡之)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Line: paternal

Career and standing

  • Label: sold divination / cast lots for a living / 賣卜自業
    Explicit · nanqishu:031:s0083
  • Label: acting adjutant on Liu Yuanjing's pacifier-army staff / 柳元景撫軍板行參軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · nanqishu:031:s0081
  • Label: adjutant for prisons under the champion army / 冠軍刑獄參軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · nanqishu:031:s0085
  • Title: Viscount of Nanfeng / 南豐縣子 · Action: enfeoffed · Households: 400 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建元元年 · Western Year: AD 479
    Explicit · nanqishu:031:s0108
  • Title: Marquis of Xinting / 新亭侯 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 泰始初 · Western Year: AD 465
    Explicit · nanqishu:031:s0082

Places and affiliations

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Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: different arts from Jiang, same ruin · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · nanqishu:031:s0146, nanqishu:031:s0148
  • Assessment: ten edicts weigh less than one command from Xun Boyu · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report
    Explicit · nanqishu:031:s0132

References in the histories

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Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 21Volume 21 Biographies 2: Crown Prince Wenhui · 1 passage
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Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 31Volume 31 Biographies 12: Jiang Mi, Xun Boyu · 30 passages
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伯玉勸太祖遣數十騎入虜界，安置標榜，於是虜游騎數百履行界上，太祖以聞，猶懼不得留，令伯玉卜，伯玉斷卦不成行，而明帝詔果復太祖本任，由是見親待。 Boyu urged him to send a few dozen riders into the northern marches and set up boundary markers; soon hundreds of enemy patrols were riding the line. The founding emperor reported it, yet still feared the court would recall him and had Boyu cast the hexagrams; Boyu read that the journey would not succeed, and Emperor Ming's edict in fact restored him to his old command. From that day he was held close.