Lu Ji (陸機) | 24 Histories

Overview

Lu Ji was a scholar and Writer.

IdentityHistorical · Male

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Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Shiheng	士衡	Shiheng

Life and dates

Death

Cause Executed · At upper state 上國
Directly stated · Book of Song 86, passage 169

Attested activity

AD 280 to AD 303 士衡
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 89
AD 280 to AD 303 晉之潘、陸
Strongly inferred · Book of Jin 117, passage 283
AD 303 機、雲為戮上國
Dated from the passage context · Book of Song 86, passage 169
AD 300 葬後
Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 53, passage 169
AD 261 to AD 303 陸機
Strongly inferred · Book of Song 73, passage 311; Book of Wei 91, passage 193
AD 289 陸機云
Directly stated · Book of Wei 111, passage 8

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AD 261 to AD 303 陸機則晉朝之秀
Strongly inferred · Book of Wei 91, passage 8

Family

Kin of Lu Kang (陸抗)
kinsman of Lu Kang
Strongly inferred · Book of Song 86, passage 169

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Places and affiliations

Polity Jin 晉 · Relation Associated with
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 8
Polity Western Jin 西晉 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Jin 117, passage 283

Works and attributed material

dirge for Minhuai 誄頌
Relation Author
Directly stated · Book of Jin 53, passage 169
scholars have long found this puzzling 學者所疑也
Remark · Speaker
Directly stated · Book of Wei 111, passage 8

Assessments and attributes

Assessment outstanding talent of the Jin · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 8
Assessment truly worth emulating · Mode speech Speaker the founding emperor (太祖)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 89

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passages 14, 193

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History

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Book of Jin, Chapter 53Volume 53 Biographies 23: Crown Prince Minhuai · 1 passage

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帝感閻纘之言，立思子台，故臣江統、陸機並作誄頌焉。 Yan Zuan's plea built Son-Lament Terrace—Jiang Tong and Lu Ji wrote elegies.

Book of Jin, Chapter 117Volume 117 Records 17: Yao Xing Part One · 1 passage

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超曰：「敞在西土，時論甚美，方敞魏之陳、徐，晉之潘、陸。」 Lü Chao said, "In the western lands contemporary opinion esteems him greatly; he matches Chen Lin and Xu Gan of Wei, Pan Yue and Lu Ji of Jin."

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 35Volume 35 Biographies 16: Gao Zu's Twelve Princes · 1 passage

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但康樂放蕩，作體不辨有首尾，安仁、士衡深可宗尚，顏延之抑其次也。」 Yet Lingyun is unrestrained — his pieces lack clear beginning and end; Pan Yue and Lu Ji are truly worth emulating; Yan Yanzhi ranks beneath them."

Book of Song, Chapter 73Volume 73 Biographies 33: Yan Yanzhi · 1 passage

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延之與陳郡謝靈運俱以詞彩齊名，自潘岳、陸機之後，文士莫及也，江左稱顏、謝焉。 Yanzhi and Xie Lingyun of Chen were equally famed for literary brilliance; since Pan Yue and Lu Ji, no writer had matched them—the south spoke of Yan and Xie.

Book of Song, Chapter 86Volume 86 Biographies 46: Yin Xiaozu, Liu Mian · 1 passage

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陸抗定西陵，步氏禍及嬰孩，而機、雲為戮上國。 when Lu Kang secured Xiling, the Bu clan's calamity reached infants in arms, yet Lu Ji and Lu Yun were executed in the upper state.

Book of Wei, Chapter 91Volume 85: Men of Letters: Yuan Yue, Pei Jingxian, Lu Guan, Feng Su, Xing Cang, Pei Bomao, Xing Xin · 2 passages

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曹植信魏世之英，陸機則晉朝之秀，雖同時並列，分途爭遠。 Cao Zhi was truly the genius of the Wei, and Lu Ji the outstanding talent of the Jin; though contemporaries, they pursued diverging paths to ever greater distance.

衍稱之曰：「曹植、陸機復生於北土。 Yan praised him, saying, "Cao Zhi and Lu Ji are reborn in the northern lands.

Book of Wei, Chapter 111Volume 105a Treatise 1: Celestial Phenomena 1 · 1 passage

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七曜一也，而分為二志，故陸機云學者所疑也。 The seven luminaries are one class of phenomena, yet Ban split them across two treatises—hence Lu Ji's remark that scholars have long found this puzzling.