Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Court Favorite and Official

Liu Xizong 劉係宗

c. AD 419 - AD 495

Passages: 15
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Liu Xizong was a Court Favorite and Official.

Life and dates

Death

AD 495 建武二年
Age 77
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 119

Age

77
Reckoning Sui
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 119

Attested activity

AD 473 to AD 473 元徽初
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 92
AD 495 建武二年
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 119
AD 483 永明元年
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 102
AD 486 永明四年
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 105

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Mother of Liu Xizong (劉係宗母)
mother 母
son 子
Sources vary in certainty · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 104

Career and standing

calligrapher to Jing Cui 侍書
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 88
court gentleman for attendance; secretariat communications attendant; supplementary gentleman 奉朝請，兼中書通事舍人，員外郎
AD 473 元徽初 · Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 92
General of the Dragon Cavalry and magistrate of Jiankang 龍驤將軍、建康令
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 101
chief clerk 主書
AD 465 to AD 471 泰始中 · Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 90
Marquis of Nanting in Shixing 始興南亭侯
Enfeoffed · Households 370
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 93
Received
Pardoned · Authority Shen Qingzhi (沈慶之)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 89

Places and affiliations

Polity Id liu-song · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 87
At Danyang 丹陽
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 87

Learning and skills

Skill writing and painting 書畫 · Level skilled
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 88

Events and relationships

Pacified districts
AD 486 永明四年 · Military · Comfort commissioner · With Tang Yuzhi (唐㝢之)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passages 105-107

Assessments and attributes

Assessment one Liu Xizong worth five hundred scholars for governing · Mode named-person-judgment Speaker Emperor Ming of Qi (齊明帝)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passages 116-117

Source notes

Southern Qi 南齊
Statement Associated with Southern Qi (南齊); polity id not supplied in packet.
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 101

References in the histories

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History

15 passages

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 56Volume 56 Biographies 37: Trusted Officials · 15 passages

紀僧真劉係宗茹法亮呂文顯呂文度 Ji Sengzhen, Liu Xizong, Ru Faliang, Lü Wenxian, and Lü Wendu

劉係宗，丹陽人也。 Liu Xizong was a native of Danyang.

誕舉兵廣陵，城內皆死，敕沈慶之赦係宗，以爲東宮侍書。 When Dan raised troops at Guangling everyone in the city was put to death, but an edict ordered Shen Qingzhi to pardon Xizong, who was then appointed calligrapher to the Eastern Palace.

太祖廢蒼梧，明旦，呼正直舍人虞整，醉不能起，係宗歡喜奉命。 When the Founding Emperor deposed Emperor Cangwu, the next morning he summoned the upright attendant Yu Zheng, who was too drunk to rise. Xizong gladly took the order in his place.

使主書十人書吏二十人配之，事皆稱旨。 He assigned him ten chief clerks and twenty writing clerks. In every matter Xizong met the emperor's wishes.

太祖卽位，除龍驤將軍、建康令。 When the Founding Emperor took the throne, Xizong was appointed General of the Dragon Cavalry and magistrate of Jiankang.

四年，白賊唐宇之起，宿衞兵東討，遣係宗隨軍慰勞，徧至遭賊郡縣。 In the fourth year the White-bandit rebel Tang Yuzhi rose. The palace guard marched east to suppress him, and Xizong was sent with the army to offer comfort and rewards, visiting every commandery and county the rebels had ravaged.

係宗還，上曰：「此段有征無戰，以時平蕩，百姓安怗，甚快也。」 When Xizong returned, the emperor said, "This campaign brought expedition without battle. The disturbance was pacified in good time and the people are at peace — I am most pleased."

賜係宗錢帛。 He rewarded Xizong with money and silks.

係宗啓謫役東民丁隨宇之爲逆者，上從之。 Xizong proposed assigning corvée labor from eastern households that had followed Yuzhi in rebellion, and the emperor agreed.

後車駕講武，上履行白下城，曰：「劉係宗爲國家得此一城。」 Later, during an imperial martial review, the emperor walked along Baixia city and said, "Liu Xizong won this city for the state."

永明中，虜使書常令係宗題答，祕書書局皆隷之。 During Yongming, replies to letters from barbarian envoys were often entrusted to Xizong for drafting, and the secretariat's writing offices were all placed under his supervision.

鬱林卽位，除驍騎將軍，仍除寧朔將軍、宣城太守。 When Emperor Yulin took the throne, Xizong was made General of Valiant Cavalry and then concurrently General Who Pacifies the North and governor of Xuancheng.

係宗久在朝省，閑於職事。 Xizong had long served in the court offices and was thoroughly skilled in official business.

一劉係宗足持如此輩五百人。」 A single Liu Xizong is worth five hundred of them."