Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and Writer

Hu Zong 胡綜

c. AD 185 - AD 243

Passages: 23
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Hu Zong was an official and Writer.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Weize	偉則	Weize

Life and dates

Death

AD 243 赤烏六年
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 136

Age

14
AD 196 to AD 200 孫策領會稽太守 · Reckoning Sui
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 146

Attested activity

AD 230 二年
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passages 99, 108
AD 222 to AD 252 先帝
Strongly inferred · Records of the Three Kingdoms 61, passage 177
AD 243 赤烏六年
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 136
AD 229 黃武八年夏
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passages 56-57

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Father of Hu Zong (胡綜父)
father 父
father 父 · paternal line
Strongly inferred · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 145
Child of Mother of Hu Zong (胡綜母)
mother 母 · maternal line
mother 母
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 145
Parent of Hu Chong (胡沖)
son 子
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 136

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Central Commander of Establishing Martial 建武中郎將
Appointed
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 153
gate attendant 門下循行
Appointed
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 146
gold-bureau clerk 金曹從事
Appointed
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 147
head of documentation office 書部
Appointed
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 148
left law enforcer 左執法
Appointed
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 127
lieutenant general 偏將軍
Appointed
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 127

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palace attendant 侍中
Appointed
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 76
Prefect of E 鄂長
Appointed
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 147
village marquis 鄉侯
Advanced
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 76
village marquis 亭侯
Enfeoffed
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 154

Places and affiliations

Polity Eastern Wu 吳 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 61, passage 177; Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passages 141, 146
At Gushi in Runan 汝南固始
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 144

Works and attributed material

edicts and diplomatic documents of Sun Quan 文誥策命鄰國書符
Relation Author
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 131
forged Wu Zhi surrender memorials 偽質降文
Relation Author
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 77
Wu-Shu covenant text 盟文
Relation Author
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 75
yellow-dragon martial ode 黃龍大牙之賦
Relation Author
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passages 57-58
Speech · Speaker · Addressed to Sun Quan (孫權)
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passages 109-110, 112
Document · Forger · As Person Id Wu Zhi (吳質)
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passages 77-78, 89, 91, 96, 155, 188

Events and relationships

Captured
Military · Commander · With Jin Zong (晉宗)
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 152
Reconciled
Political · Mediator · With Zhang Zhao (張昭)
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 128

Assessments and attributes

Assessment talent prized; excesses overlooked · Mode narrative
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 130
loved wine; when drunk shouted and struck neighbors
Habit
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 62, passage 129

References in the histories

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History

23 passages

Records of the Three Kingdoms, Chapter 61Volume 61: Book of Wu 16: Biographies of Pan Jun and Lu Kai · 1 passage

先帝外仗顧、陸、朱、張，內近胡綜、薛綜是以庶績雍熙。 Outwardly he trusted Gu Yong, Lu Xun, Zhu Ran, and Zhang Zhao; inwardly he relied on Hu Zong and Xue Zong—so government ran clear.

Records of the Three Kingdoms, Chapter 62Volume 62: Book of Wu 17: Biographies of Shi Yi and Hu Zong · 22 passages

胡綜字偉則。 Hu Zong (courtesy Weize)

孫策領會稽太守，綜年十四，為門下循行，留吳與孫權共讀書。 When Sun Ce was administrator of Kuaiji, Zong at fourteen became a gate attendant and stayed in Wu to read with Sun Quan.

策薨，權為討虜將軍，以綜為金曹從事，從討黃祖，拜鄂長。 After Sun Ce's death Sun Quan became general who pacifies barbarians, made Zong a gold-bureau clerk, joined the campaign against Huang Zu, and named him prefect of E.

權為將軍，都京，召綜還，為書部。 When Sun Quan took the title of general and fixed the capital, he recalled Zong to head the documentation office.

劉備下白帝，權以見兵少，使綜料諸縣，得六千人，立解煩兩部，詳領左部、綜領右部督。 When Liu Bei came down from Baidi, Sun Quan, finding his visible troops too thin, had Zong levy the counties for six thousand men and formed two hardship-relief divisions—Xu Xiang led the left and Hu Zong the right.

權使綜與賀齊輕行掩襲，生虜得宗。 Sun Quan sent Zong with He Qi on a swift surprise raid and took Jin Zong alive.

魏拜權為吳王，封綜、儀、詳皆為亭侯。 When Wei recognized Sun Quan as King of Wu, Zong, Yi, and Xiang were all made village marquises.

又作黃龍大牙，常在中軍，諸軍進退，視其所向，命綜作賊曰： He had a great yellow-dragon banner made for the central command; every column took its cue from it, and he commissioned Hu Zong to write a martial ode that begins:

綜為盟文，文義甚美，語在《權傳》。 Hu Zong drafted the treaty; the text was elegant—the full wording appears in Sun Quan's biography.

權下都建業，詳、綜並為侍中，進封鄉侯，兼左、右領軍。 After the court settled at Jianye, Xu Xiang and Hu Zong became joint palace attendants, village marquises, and left and right commanders of the guard.

時魏降人或雲魏都督河北振威將軍吳質頗見猜疑，綜乃偽質為作降文三條： Wei turncoats claimed that Wu Zhi, Wei's Hebei commander and general who awes the foe, had fallen under suspicion; Hu Zong forged three "surrender" pieces in his name:

綜時侍坐，權問何如。 Hu Zong was present; Sun Quan asked his opinion of the man.

綜對曰："蕃上書，大語有似東方朔，巧捷詭辯有似彌衡。 Hu Zong said, His memorial sounds like Dongfang Shuo at his broadest and like Mi Heng at his sharpest.

綜對曰："未可以治民，且試以都輦小職。 Hu Zong answered, "Not yet a magistrate—give him a small post around the capital first."

拜綜偏將軍，兼左執法，領辭訟。 Hu Zong was promoted to lieutenant general, left law enforcer, and again put in charge of lawsuits.

遼東之事，輔吳將軍張昭以諫權言辭切至，權亦大怒，其和協彼此，使之無隙，綜有力焉。 When the Liaodong campaign drove Zhang Zhao, general who assists Wu, to remonstrate in blistering terms and Sun Quan raged, Hu Zong helped heal the rift between sovereign and chief counselor.

凡自權統事，諸文誥策命，鄰國書符，略皆綜之所造也。 From Sun Quan's accession onward, most edicts, patents, and diplomatic notes to rival courts came from Hu Zong's brush.

綜議以為宜定科文，示以大辟，行之一人，其後必絕。 Hu Zong urged a written statute and a single public execution to stop the practice cold.

遂用綜言，由是奔喪乃斷， Sun Quan took his advice, and unauthorized leave for mourning ended.

徐詳者字子明，吳郡烏程人也，先綜死。 Xu Xiang, courtesy Ziming, came from Wucheng in Wu commandery and died before Hu Zong.

評曰：是儀、徐詳、胡綜，皆孫權之時干興事業者也。 The appraisal states that Shi Yi, Xu Xiang, and Hu Zong were the men who kept Sun Quan's government running.

儀清恪貞素，詳數通使命，綜文采才用，各見信任，譬之廣夏，其榱椽之佐乎! Shi Yi was incorruptible, Xu Xiang a veteran envoy, Hu Zong a brilliant pen—all earned deep trust; they were the beams that held up Sun Quan's hall.