Su Chuo 蘇綽

Other names

Family

• Descendant of Ze (則)
  ninth-generation descendant 九世孫 · paternal line · 9 generations
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 1
• Child of Xie (協)
  father 父 · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 3
• Kin of Rang (讓)
  older cousin 從兄 · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 5
• Parent of Su Wei (蘇威)
  son 子
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passages 374-375
• Spouse of Wife of Su Chuo (蘇綽妻)
  wife 妻子
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 367; zizhitongjian:159:s0313l
• Sibling of Su Chun (蘇椿)
  younger brother 弟 · Full siblings
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 384

• Kinship Role brothers · Count Unknown true · brothers mentioned as a class; younger brother Chun named later · Quantity unspecified-plural
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 367
• Kinship Role children · Count Unknown true · 妻子兄弟 passage lists children as a class · Quantity unspecified-plural
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 367
• Kinship Role brothers · 兄弟 · Quantity unspecified plural
  Directly stated · zizhitongjian:159:s0313l

Origins and identity

• ninth-generation descendant of Ze 則之九世孫
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 1

Career and standing

• handler of confidential affairs 掌機密
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 32, passage 236
• official and reformer 度支尚書
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 380
• Assistant Gentleman of the Palace Library 著作佐郎
  AD 535 to AD 537 （未著年月，大統三年前西魏朝事） · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 18
• Left Assistant Director of the Grand Mobile Imperial Secretariat 大行臺左丞
  AD 535 to AD 537 （未著年月，大統三年前西魏朝事） · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 32
• palace aide on the mobile imperial secretariat 行臺郎中
  AD 535 to AD 537 （未著年月，大統三年前西魏朝事） · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 8
• Director of Revenue of the Grand Mobile Imperial Secretariat 大行臺度支尚書
  AD 544 十年 · Appointed · From Source Date: Text: 十年 · Western Year: AD 544
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 39

Places and affiliations

• Polity Western Wei 西魏 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · Book of Zhou 23, passages 8, 35, 39; Book of Zhou 32, passages 165, 236
• Polity Western Wei 魏 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 380; Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 159, passage 313
• At Wugong 武功
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 1
• At Wugong 武功
  Strongly inferred · Book of Zhou 23, passages 365, 398
• At Wugong 武功 · Relation Buried at
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 365; zizhitongjian:159:s0313k

Learning and skills

• loved study and read widely 少好學，博覽羣書
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 4
• Belief Buddhism 佛 · Relation Author on
  Strongly inferred · Book of Zhou 23, passage 372
• Skill reckoning and accounts 筭術 · Level adept
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 4

Works and attributed material

• Six Ordinances 六條詔書
  AD 544 大統十年 · Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 42
• Great Admonition 大誥
  Relation Author · Patron Person Id Yuwen Tai (周文帝)
  Directly stated · zizhitongjian:159:s0044b
• Six Ordinances 六條詔書
  AD 544 大統十年 · Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 42
• new regulations that became the court's administrative code 新制
  AD 541 to AD 546 與蘇綽等修撰新制 · Relation Compiler · With Liu Min (柳敏)
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Zhou 32, passage 165
• iron foot-rule pitch standard 蘇綽鐵尺
  Relation Author · Mode quotation
  Directly stated · History of Jin 39, passage 13
• Great Announcement 大誥
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 260

Events and relationships

• Agreed with concentrated defense
  AD 537 大統三年 · Military · Advisor · With Yuwen Tai (周文帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 35
• Assisted state reforms
  AD 544 十年 · Political · Reformer · With Yuwen Tai (周文帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passages 40-41
• Composed Great Announcement for promulgation
  Administrative · Author · With Yuwen Tai (周文帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 260
• Enabled Yuwen Tai's institutional and cultural reforms
  Political · Architect
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 414
• Established document and register systems
  AD 535 to AD 537 （未著年月，大統三年前西魏朝事） · Political · Reformer
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 34
• Explained site history
  AD 535 to AD 537 （未著年月，大統三年前西魏朝事） · Scholarly · Respondent · With Yuwen Tai (周文帝) · At old Han granary west of the city 城西漢故倉地
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passages 19-22

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment first in fame; blessing to descendants · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passages 414-415
• Assessment frugal and plain; did not manage property; household without surplus · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 346
• Assessment humble, retiring, honored thrift · Mode speech Speaker Yuwen Tai (周文帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 356
• Assessment loyal and frugal · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 159, passage 313
• Assessment modest and yielding · Mode named-speech Speaker Yuwen Tai (周文帝)
  Directly stated · zizhitongjian:159:s0313f
• Assessment pure conduct, lived in humility · Mode speech Speaker Ma Yao (麻瑤)
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 363

Source notes

• Value historical
  Directly stated · History of Jin 39, passage 13; Book of Zhou 32, passage 165
• For generations the family held two-thousand-bushel offices 累世二千石
  Family officeholding
  Directly stated · Book of Zhou 23, passage 2