Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official

Xun Xu 荀勗

Xún Xù

Attested AD 265 - AD 420

Passages
4
Chapters
4
Histories
3

Overview

The translated histories identify Xun Xu as an official and statesman. This record brings together 4 passages from 4 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Xun Xu 荀勗 Xún Xù
Title Grand Tutor 太保
Given Xu
Surname Xun Xún
Clan Xun clan 荀氏 Xún shì
Personal name Xun Xu Xún Xù
Personal name Xun Xu 荀勗 Xún Xù
Personal name Xun Xu 荀勗 Xun Xu

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 少帝時引述昔事 · Western Interval: Start: AD 422 · End: AD 426
    Explicit event contextual date · songshu:073:s0022, songshu:073:s0023
  • Source Date: Text: · Western Interval: Start: AD 265 · End: AD 420
    Strongly inferred · liangshu:047:s0036
  • Source Date: Text: 晉世荀勗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 265 · End: AD 289
    Strongly inferred · nanqishu:016:s0009
  • Source Date: Text: 西晉 · Western Interval: Start: AD 265 · End: AD 300
    Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0013

Family

  • Ancestor of Xun Jiang (荀匠)
    Kinship Term: ninth-generation descendant / 九世孫 · Generation Distance: 9 · Line: paternal

Places and affiliations

Events and relationships

Source notes

References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 47Volume 47: Filial Acts · 1 passage
Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 16Volume 16 Treatises 8: Official Posts · 1 passage
Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 56Volume 56 Biographies 37: Trusted Officials · 1 passage
Book of Song, Chapter 73Volume 73 Biographies 33: Yan Yanzhi · 1 passage