Yuwen Gui 貴

Other names

Family

• Child of Yuwen Xian (憲)
  son 子
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passage 265
• Sibling of Yuwen Zhi (質)
  Full siblings
  Strongly inferred · Book of Zhou 12, passage 265

Career and standing

• commissioner with Three Excellencies protocol 儀同三司
  AD 575 四年 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passage 272
• governor of Bin Province 豳州刺史
  AD 575 四年 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passage 273
• grand general of chariots and cavalry 車騎大將軍
  AD 575 四年 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passage 272
• Duke of Anding commandery 安定郡公
  AD 569 天和四年 · Fief Households 1500 · Enfeoffed
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passage 268
• heir of Qi state 齊國世子
  AD 573 建德二年 · Enfeoffed
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passage 271

Places and affiliations

• Polity Northern Zhou 北周 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · Book of Zhou 12, passage 268
• AD 575 四年
  At Bin Province 豳州 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passage 273
• At deep palace 深宮 · Relation Origin
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passage 274
• At Yan Province 鹽州 · Relation Visited
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passage 270

Learning and skills

• Subjects classics and histories 經史, Classic of Filial Piety 孝經
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passages 266-267
• Skill mounted archery 騎射 · Level especially skilled
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passage 266
• Skill memory 過目輒記 · Level what passed before his eyes he at once remembered
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passage 275

Works and attributed material

• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passages 267, 276, 279

Events and relationships

• Followed Xian hunting at Yan Province and personally shot fifteen wild horses and deer in one encirclement
  Hunt · Participant · With Yuwen Xian (憲) · At Yan Province 鹽州
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passage 270
• Identified county partisans by name and elicited the beacon commander's confession about merchants burning White Beast beacon
  Administrative · Investigator · At White Beast beacon 白獸烽
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passages 276-280

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment attended to common governance though raised in the deep palace; keen discernment · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 12, passages 274, 281