Zhai Guangye (翟光鄴)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhai Guangye as an administrator, envoy, general, and official. This record brings together 14 passages from 4 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhai Guangye	翟光鄴	Zhai Guangye
Given name	Guangye	光鄴
Courtesy name	Huaji	化基	Huàjī
Surname	Zhai	翟
Personal name	Zhai Guangye	翟光鄴	Zhai Guangye
Personal	Zhai Guangye	翟光鄴	Zhái Guāngyè
Personal name	Zhai Guangye	翟光鄴	Zhái Guāngyè

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:066:s0057

Roles

Administrator
Envoy
General
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: in office · Place: Yongxing / 永興 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 周太祖入立 · Western Year: AD 951
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Age

Age: 10 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 梁、晉相距於河上 · Western Year: AD 923
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 光鄴事唐 · Western Year: AD 926
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Source Date: Text: 出帝 · Western Year: AD 944
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Source Date: Text: 周太祖入立 · Western Year: AD 951
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Source Date: Text: 契丹主死 · Western Year: AD 947
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Source Date: Text: 契丹滅晉 · Western Year: AD 947
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Source Date: Text: 廣順元年六月 · Western Year: AD 951
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:011:s0083
Source Date: Text: 明宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:066:s0057
Source Date: Text: 晉高祖時 · Western Year: AD 936
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Source Date: Text: 梁、晉相距於河上 · Western Year: AD 923
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Source Date: Text: 漢高祖 · Western Year: AD 947
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Family

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Child of Zhai Jingke (翟景珂)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Stepmother of Zhai Guangye (翟光鄴繼母)
Kinship Term: stepmother / 繼母 · Parentage: step · Subject Role: stepson · Object Role: stepmother
Kinship Term: stepmother / 繼母 · Parentage: step · Subject Role: stepmother · Object Role: stepson

Career and standing

Label: defender of Qingzhou / 青州防禦使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 出帝 · Western Year: AD 944
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Label: Palace Commissioner / 宣徽使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 周太祖入立 · Western Year: AD 951
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Label: Vice Privy Commissioner / 樞密副使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 周太祖入立 · Western Year: AD 951
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Label: Grand General of the Left Jinwu / 左金吾大將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢高祖 · Western Year: AD 947
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Label: Grand General of the Right Stern Guard / 右領軍衛大將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢高祖 · Western Year: AD 947
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Label: commissioner of Military Affairs / 樞密使 · Action: appointed
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Label: Privy Commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: appointed
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Label: Vice Privy Commissioner / 樞密副使 · Action: appointed
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Label: deputy defender of the Western Capital / 西京副留守 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 晉高祖時 · Western Year: AD 936
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Label: prefect of Di and Yi / 棣沂二州刺史 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 晉高祖時 · Western Year: AD 936
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Label: street commissioner / 街使 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢高祖 · Western Year: AD 947
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Label: Northern Bureau Palace Secretariat commissioner / 宣徽北院使 · Action: held
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Label: training commissioner of Yaozhou / 耀州團練使 · Action: held
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Status: dismissed · Action: removed
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Later Tang / 唐 · Relation: served
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Place: Juancheng in Puzhou / 濮州鄄城
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Place: Yongxing army / 永興軍 · Relation: posted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 周太祖入立 · Western Year: AD 951
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Place: Caozhou / 曹州 · Relation: posted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 契丹滅晉 · Western Year: AD 947
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Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: beneficiary · Action: appointed-after · Other Person Id: Yang Guangyuan (楊光遠) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 出帝 · Western Year: AD 944
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Kind: posthumous · Role: subject · Action: local-burial-shrine-refused
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Kind: death-wish · Role: subject · Action: ordered-body-returned · Place: Luoyang / 洛
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Relation: retained-by · Person Id: Li Siyuan (李嗣源)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: harmonious with relatives; shared coarse clothes and plain food while remaining at ease · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Assessment: silent and full of plans; filial to stepmother · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Kind: character · Statement: did not amass property; lived in borrowed official quarters
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References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 51Volume 51 Book of Later Tang 27: Biographies 3: Imperial Family · 1 passage

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李式、翟光鄴為樞密使，王景崇為宣徽使，餘官各有署置。 Li Shi and Zhai Guangye were made commissioners of the Bureau of Military Affairs, Wang Jingchong palace commissioner, and the remaining posts were each filled.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 66Volume 66 Book of Later Tang 42: Biographies 8: an Zhonghui, Zhu Hongzhao, Zhu Hongshi, Kang Yicheng, Yao Yanchou, Song Lingxun · 2 passages

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時遣翟光鄴使河中，如察重誨有異志，則誅之。 Zhai Guangye was dispatched to Hedong to probe rebellion and kill him if guilt were found.

《五代史闕文》：明宗令翟光鄴、李從璋誅重誨於河中私第，從璋奮楇擊重誨於地，重誨曰：「某死無恨，但恨不與官家誅得潞王，他日必為朝廷之患。」 (The 《Lost Texts of the History of the Five Dynasties》: Mingzong ordered Zhai Guangye and Li Congzhang to kill Chonghui at his Hedong mansion; Congzhang felled him with a mace; Chonghui said, "I die without regret—only that I did not help the Emperor kill the Prince of Lu; he will plague the court hereafter."

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 11Volume 11 Later Zhou Annals 2: Taizu · 2 passages

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丁巳，宣徽北院使翟光鄴為樞密副使。 On dingsi Zhai Guangye, commissioner of the Northern Bureau of the Palace Secretariat, became Vice Privy Commissioner.

戊辰，內客省使鄭仁誨為樞密副使，翟光鄴罷。 On wuchen Zheng Renhui of the palace guest office became Vice Privy Commissioner, and Zhai Guangye was removed.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 49Volume 49 Miscellaneous Biographies 29: Di Guangye, Feng Hui, Huang Fuhui, Tang Jingsi, Wang Jin, Chang Si, Sun Fangjian · 9 passages

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翟光鄴 Zhai Guangye

翟光鄴，字化基，濮州鄄城人也。 Zhai Guangye, styled Huaji, came from Juancheng in Puzhou.

光鄴時年十歲，為晉兵所掠，明宗愛其穎悟，常以自隨。 Guangye was ten when Jin soldiers carried him off. Mingzong prized his sharp mind and kept him close.

光鄴事唐，官至耀州團練使。 Under Tang he rose to training commissioner of Yao.

出帝已破楊光遠，以光鄴為青州防禦使。 Once the Deposed Emperor had broken Yang Guangyuan, Guangye was made defender of Qing.

光鄴招輯兵民，甚有恩意。 Guangye rallied troops and civilians with real grace.

契丹滅晉，遣光鄴知曹州。 When the Khitan ended Jin, they set Guangye to govern Cao.

光鄴為人沈默多謀，事繼母以孝聞。 Guangye spoke little and plotted much, and was known for honoring his stepmother.

雍睦親族，粗衣糲食，與均有無，而光鄴處之晏然，日與賓客飲酒聚書為樂。 He kept kin close in coarse dress and plain fare, sharing all he had while he stayed easy, drinking with guests and piling books for joy.