Cui Jishu 崔季舒

Other names

Family

• Child of Cui Yuzhi (崔瑜之)
  father 父
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 3
• Child of Mother of Cui Jishu (崔季舒母)
  mother 母
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 25
• Parent of Jingxuan (鏡玄)
  next son 次
  Strongly inferred · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 51
• Parent of Changjun (長君)
  secondary son 庶子
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 50
• Kin of Cui Xuan (崔暹)
  uncle 叔父 · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 16

• Kinship Role wives · Count 6
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passages 53, 55
• Kinship Role brothers and nephews · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 54
• Kinship Role daughters-in-law · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 47
• Kinship Role daughters · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 47
• Kinship Role wives · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 47
• Kinship Role young sons · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 47

Origins and identity

• Ethnicity Han 漢 · Mode allegation Speaker Han Changluan (韓長鸞)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 44

Career and standing

• left vice director of the masters of writing 尚書左僕射
  Appointed concurrently
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 23
• director of revenue in the masters of writing 度支尚書
  AD 561 大寧初 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 28
• provincial chief clerk 州主簿
  AD 534 to AD 547 年十七 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 5
• director of splendid happiness 光祿勳
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 25
• governor of Jiao 膠州刺史
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 33
• governor of Qi 齊州刺史
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 26

Places and affiliations

• Polity Eastern Wei 東魏 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 171; Book of Northern Qi 39, passages 8, 14
• Polity Northern Qi 北齊 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passages 22-23, 56
• At Anping in Boling 博陵安平
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 2
• AD 549 世宗崩
  At Jinyang 晉陽 · Relation Traveled to
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 172
• AD 549 文襄遇難後
  At northern marches 北邊 · Relation Exiled to
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 21
• AD 573 諫止幸晉陽被殺
  At Zhang River 漳水 · Relation Body discarded in
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 45

Learning and skills

• Subjects classics and histories 經史
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 4
• Skill dispatch writing 尺牘 · Level excellent
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 4
• Skill medicine 醫術 · Level renowned
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 48
• Skill music 音樂 · Level skilled
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 9

Works and attributed material

• Imperial Overview 御覽
  Relation Supervised compilation
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 34
• Remonstrance · Co author · Paraphrased · Extent s0039, s0040, s0041, s0042
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passages 39-42
• Reported remark about Cui Xian · Speaker · With Cui Xuan (崔暹) · Direct quotation · Mode direct-quotation Speaker Cui Jishu (崔季舒)
  Directly stated · zizhitongjian:159:s0019t; zizhitongjian:159:s0019u
• Slander · Speaker · With Gao Longzhi (高隆之) · Direct quotation · Mode allegation Speaker Cui Jishu (崔季舒)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 99

Events and relationships

• Accused and urged killed
  AD 549 世宗崩 · Political · Accused · With Sima Ziru (司馬子如)
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 18, passages 173, 175
• Advised Emperor Jing on replies
  Political · Confidant · With Emperor Jing (靜帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 12
• Barred from Gao Zhan mourning
  AD 565 武成崩 · Mourning · Excluded · With Emperor Wucheng (武成帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 32
• Family exiled confiscated and enslaved
  AD 573 諫止幸晉陽後 · Punishment · Household punished
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 47
• Joint remonstrance against Jinyang journey
  AD 573 車駕將適晉陽 · Remonstrance · Leader · With Zhang Diao (張雕)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passages 39-42
• Left office for mother mourning
  AD 560 乾明前後 · Mourning · Son · With Mother of Cui Jishu (崔季舒母)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 25

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment power-eclipsed-Cui-Xian · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 15
• Assessment praised-for-recommending-men-and-encouraging-letters · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 36
• Assessment resented-by-meritorious-nobles · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 18
• Assessment wet-nurse-to-the-emperor · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Emperor Jing (靜帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 12
• loved music and women; preferred leisure
  Character
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 20
• loved books; more diligent in old age
  Habit
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 36

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 18, passage 98; Book of Northern Qi 39, passages 2, 53
• Inner palace performers first came under the secretariat through him.
  內伎屬中書。自季舒始也。
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passages 9-10