Yang Xiuzhi (陽休之)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Xiuzhi as an official and statesman. This record brings together 7 passages from 5 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yang Xiuzhi	陽休之	Yang Xiuzhi
Personal name	Yang Xiuzhi	陽休之
Personal name	Yang Xiuzhi	陽休之	Yang Xiuzhi
Personal	Yang Xiuzhi	陽休之	Yáng Xiūzhī

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0002, beiqishu:031:s0162, beiqishu:034:s0178
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · suishu:054:s0068

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾明皇建 · Western Interval: Start: AD 560 · End: AD 561
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:031:s0162, beiqishu:031:s0177
Source Date: Text: 五月 · Western Year: AD 550
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:030:s0126
Source Date: Text: 令其僕射陽休之責謙 · Western Interval: Start: c. AD 575 · End: c. AD 577
Strongly inferred · suishu:054:s0068
Source Date: Text: 遵彥死 · Western Year: AD 560
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:034:s0178
Source Date: Text: 陽休之等十八人同入關 · Western Year: AD 577
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:038:s0096

Career and standing

Label: Director of the Masters of Writing / 尚書 · Action: held
Explicit · beiqishu:031:s0162
Label: Palace Reception Vice Director / 鴻臚少卿 · Action: held
Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0178
Label: Vice Premier / 僕射 · Action: held · Polity: Qi / 齊
Explicit · suishu:054:s0068

Works and attributed material

Kind: remark · Role: speaker · Statement: Your noble court is mobilizing troops in midsummer—where are your horses' heads turned? · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Yang Xiuzhi (陽休之)
Explicit · suishu:054:s0068
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Provenance: Mode: hearsay
Explicit · beiqishu:034:s0178

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 30Volume 30 Biographies 22: Cui Xian; Gao Dezheng; Cui Ang · 1 passage

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山提以五月至鄴，楊愔卽召太常卿邢卲、七兵尚書崔㥄悛、度支尚書陸操、詹事王昕、黃門侍郎陽休之、中書侍郎裴讓之等議撰儀注。 Shanti reached Ye in the fifth month; Yang Yin at once summoned director of ceremonies Xing Shao, minister of the seven armies Cui Lingjun, minister of revenue Lu Cao, household mentor Wang Xin, yellow gate attendant Yang Xiuzhi, secretariat gentleman Pei Rangzhi, and others to draft the ritual regulations.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 31Volume 31 Biographies 23: Wang Xin; Wang Xi · 3 passages

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因勑尚書陽休之、鴻臚卿崔劼等三人，每日本職務罷，並入東廊，共舉錄歷代廢禮墜樂、職司廢置、朝饗異同、輿服增損。 He ordered director of the Masters of Writing Yang Xiuzhi, director of ceremonies Cui Jie, and one other — three men — each day when their proper duties ended, all to enter the eastern corridor and together record rites fallen and music lost through the ages, offices abolished, court sacrifice differences, carriage dress additions and subtractions.

時二人奏車駕北征後，人言陽休之、王晞數與諸人遊宴，不以公事在懷。 At that time the two reported that after the imperial carriage's northern campaign, people said Yang Xiuzhi and Wang Xi often feasted and wandered with others, not keeping public business in mind.

帝杖休之、晞脛各四十。 The emperor flogged Xiuzhi and Wang Xi each forty blows on the shins.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 34Volume 34 Biographies 26: Yang Yin; Yan Zixian; Song Qindao; Zheng Yi · 1 passage

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鴻臚少卿陽休之私謂人曰：「將涉千里，殺騏驥而策蹇驢，可悲之甚。」 Palace reception vice director Yang Xiuzhi said privately, "One is about to cross a thousand li, yet kills the qilin and drives a lame donkey—how pitiful."

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 38Volume 38 Biographies 30: Xin Shu; Yuan Wenyao; Zhao Yanshen · 1 passage

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齊亡，陽休之等十八人同入關，稍遷司勳下大夫。 When Qi fell, Yang Xiuzhi and eighteen others entered the passes together with him. He rose gradually to lower grand master in the bureau of merits.

Book of Sui, Chapter 54Volume 54 Biographies 19: Wang Zhangshu, Li Yan, Yi Louqian, Tian Rengong, Yuan Heng, Du Zheng, Li Che, Cui Peng · 1 passage

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齊主知之，令其僕射陽休之責謙曰：「貴朝盛夏徵兵，馬首何向？」 When the Qi ruler learned of this, his vice premier Yang Xiuzhi challenged Qian: "Your court is mobilizing in high summer—where are your armies heading?"