Zhou Xie (周緤) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhou Xie as an aristocrat, attendant, and courtier. This record brings together 6 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhou Xie	周緤	Zhou Xie
Title	Marquis of Kuaicheng	蒯成侯
Title	Marquis of Xinwu	信武侯
Posthumous	Marquis Zhen	貞侯
Personal	Xie	緤	Xie
Given	Xie	緤	Xie
Surname	Zhou	周	Zhou
Clan	Zhou	周氏	Zhou

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Aristocrat
Attendant
Courtier

Life and dates

Death

Manner: old-age · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 孝文五年 · Western Year: BC 175
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 孝文五年 · Western Year: BC 175
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Source Date: Text: 起沛至孝文五年 · Western Interval: Start: BC 209 · End: BC 175
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Source Date: Text: 高祖十二年 · Western Year: BC 195
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Family

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Parent of Zhou Chang (昌)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Parent of Zhou Ju (居)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: retainer / 舍人 · Action: served-as
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Place: Chiyang / 池陽 · Action: granted
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Label: entry without quick-stepping; immunity from death for homicide / 入殿門不趨，殺人不死 · Action: granted
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Label: Marquis Zhen / 貞侯 · Action: posthumously-titled
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Title: Marquis of Kuaicheng / 蒯成侯 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 高祖十二年 · Western Year: BC 195
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Title: Marquis of Xinwu / 信武侯 · Households: 3300 · Action: granted
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Title: marquis / 侯 · Action: succeeded
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Han / 漢 · Relation: served
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Place: Pei / 沛
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Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Emperor Gaozu (高祖) · Quoted: true
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Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: adviser · Action: dissuaded-personal-campaign · Other Person Id: Chen Xi (陳豨)
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Relation: chariot-companion-of · Person Id: Emperor Gaozu (高祖)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: loving the emperor · Provenance: Mode: named-person-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Emperor Gaozu (高祖)
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Assessment: steadfast, upright, deeply devoted gentleman · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Sima Qian (太史公)
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References in the histories

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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 98Biographies of Fu, Jin, and the Marquis of Kuaicheng · 6 passages

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蒯成侯緤者，沛人也，姓周氏。 The Marquis of Kuaicheng, Xie, was a man of Pei, surnamed Zhou.

以緤為信武侯，食邑三千三百戶。 Xie was made Marquis of Xinwu and granted a revenue fief of three thousand three hundred households.

高祖十二年，以緤為蒯成侯，除前所食邑。 In the twelfth year of Gaozu's reign, Xie was made Marquis of Kuaicheng, superseding all previous fiefs.

上欲自擊陳豨，蒯成侯泣曰：「始秦攻破天下，未嘗自行。 When the emperor wanted to lead the attack on Chen Xi himself, the Marquis of Kuaicheng wept and said, "When Qin first conquered the realm, its ruler never personally took the field.

至孝文五年，緤以壽終，謚為貞侯。 In the fifth year of Emperor Xiaowen's reign, Xie died of old age and was posthumously titled Marquis Zhen.

蒯成侯周緤操心堅正，身不見疑，上欲有所之，未嘗不垂涕，此有傷心者然，可謂篤厚君子矣。 The Marquis of Kuaicheng, Zhou Xie, was steadfast and upright in his convictions, and his loyalty was never called into question. Whenever the sovereign intended to take the field, Xie never failed to weep. His was the bearing of one whose heart truly ached for his lord. He may well be called a man of deep and genuine devotion.