Xue Jun 薛琡

Other names

Family

• Child of Xue Biaozi (薛彪子)
  father 父
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passage 4
• Spouse of Yu (于氏)
  former wife 前妻 · Ended
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passage 54
• Parent of Son of Xue Chu (薛琡子)
  son 子
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passage 54
• Spouse of Zhang (張氏)
  wife 婦
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passage 53

• Kinship Role sons · Count 2 · Count Note plural 其子; exact number unstated
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passage 47

Origins and identity

• Ethnicity Dai people 代人 · Scope ancestral
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passage 3
• Clan Chigan clan 叱干氏 · original surname before Xue
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passage 3

Career and standing

• official 官
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passages 6, 14
• mobile headquarters minister of the masters of writing 行臺尚書
  AD 529 元天穆討邢杲 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 26, passage 25
• chief administrator of the chancellor's office 丞相長史
  AD 534 天平初 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 26, passage 35
• Director of the Imperial Secretariat on the mobile staff 行台尚書
  AD 529 中大通元年夏四月 · Held
  Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0022a
• acting magistrate of Luoyang 行洛陽令
  AD 520 to AD 525 正光中 · Held
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 26, passage 9
• director of guests for audiences 典客令
  Held
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passage 6

Places and affiliations

• Polity Wei 魏 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passages 7, 9; zizhitongjian:153:s0022a
• At Henan 河南
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passage 2
• AD 520 to AD 525 正光中
  At Luoyang 洛陽 · Relation Posted to
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 26, passage 9
• AD 534 天平初
  Organization chancellor's office 丞相府 · Relation Served in
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 26, passage 35

Learning and skills

• Skill judicial examination without torture 辭理窮覈 · Level renowned
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passage 10

Works and attributed material

• AD 529 中大通元年夏四月
  Speech · Speaker · Addressed to Yuan Tianmu (元天穆) · Direct quotation · Mode quotation Speaker Xue Jun (薛琡)
  Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0022a; zizhitongjian:153:s0022b
• Counsel · Speaker · Paraphrased
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passages 29-31
• Deathbed charge · Speaker · Paraphrased
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passages 47-49
• Divination · Speaker · With Zhang Liang (張亮)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 25, passages 47-48
• Memorial · Author · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passages 15-17
• Speech · Speaker · With Gao Huan (高歡) · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passages 39-42

Events and relationships

• Advised against crossing the river
  AD 537 沙苑之敗 · Military · Counselor · With Gao Huan (高歡)
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 26, passages 39, 42, 45
• Advised attacking Yuan Hao before Xing Gao
  AD 529 元天穆討邢杲 · Military · Staff officer · With Yuan Tianmu (元天穆)
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 26, passages 29, 31, 34
• Affair with then marriage to Zhang; drove off former wife Yu; refused to acknowledge son
  Domestic · Husband · With Zhang (張氏)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passages 53-54
• Kept Luoyang jails nearly empty during drought review
  AD 520 to AD 525 正光中 · Judicial · Magistrate · At Luoyang 洛陽
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 26, passages 12-13
• Opposed Cui Liang halt by years selection rule
  Political · Remonstrant · With Cui Liang (崔亮)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passages 14-18
• Proposed restoring Han four categories for recommending officials
  Political · Remonstrant
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passages 19, 23-24

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment dangerous and jealous; outwardly square, inwardly unstable; took bribes and harmed many; feared and hated · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passages 51-52
• Assessment deeply scorned by the age for family conduct · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passage 54
• Assessment known from youth for competence and resolve · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passage 5
• Assessment Xing Gao's troops are petty thieves without distant ambition · With Xing Gao (邢杲) · Mode quotation Speaker Xue Jun (薛琡)
  Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0022a
• Assessment Yuan Hao is close imperial kin marching as a righteous rising · With Yuan Hao (元顥) · Mode quotation Speaker Xue Jun (薛琡)
  Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0022b
• tall and imposing of bearing
  Physical description
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passage 5

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0022a
• charged sons not to solicit posthumous office; plain burial without spirit objects
  Negated solicitation true
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 26, passages 47, 49