Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Historian

Xu 徐

Attested AD 420 - AD 479

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Xu was a historian.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 420 to AD 479 何、徐《宋志》
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 16, passage 299

Places and affiliations

Polity Id liu-song · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 16, passage 299

Works and attributed material

Song Treatise 宋志
Relation Author
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 16, passage 299
Song Treatise 宋志
Treatise claim · Author · Statement Inspector military-overseeership began when Wei Wu sent provincial generals to oversee troops · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Xu (徐) Source Work Song Treatise 宋志
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 16, passage 299

Assessments and attributes

Assessment mistaken dating of inspector military-overseeership origin · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 16, passage 299

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 16Volume 16 Treatises 8: Official Posts · 1 passage

魏、晉世州牧隆重，刺史任重者爲使持節都督，輕者爲持節督，起漢從帝時，御史中丞馮赦討九江賊，督揚、徐二州軍事，而何、徐《宋志》云起魏武遣諸州將督軍，王珪之《職儀》云起光武，竝非也。 Under Wei and Jin, provincial governors were honored posts; inspectors with heavy responsibility became commissioners bearing the staff of authority and military overseers, lighter ones commissioners bearing the staff and supervisors. The office began under Emperor Shun of Han, when Censor-in-chief Feng She campaigned against Jiujiang bandits and directed Yang and Xu military affairs; but He and Xu's Song Treatise dates it to Cao Cao's dispatch of provincial generals to oversee troops, and Wang Guizhi's Protocol of Offices dates it to Emperor Guangwu—all are mistaken.