Qin and Han · Official

Xue Xiu 薛修

Attested BC 20 - BC 15

Passages: 8
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Xue Xiu was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 20 to BC 15 薛宣為丞相時；鴻嘉元年至六年後免相
Strongly inferred · Book of Han 94, passages 115, 118

Career and standing

magistrate of Linzi 臨菑令
Directly stated · Book of Han 94, passage 118

Events and relationships

Type elder-brother · Person Xue Xuan (薛宣)
Directly stated · Book of Han 94, passage 115

References in the histories

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History

8 passages

Book of Han, Chapter 94Volume 83: Xue Xuan and Zhu Bo · 8 passages

初，宣有兩弟，明、修：明至南陽太守； Xue Xuan had two younger brothers, Ming and Xiu; Ming rose to be governor of Nanyang;

修歷郡守、京兆尹、少府，善交接，得州裡之稱。 Xiu served as commandery governor, metropolitan governor, and privy treasurer; he was skilled at networking and popular in his home region.

後母常從修居官。 Their stepmother habitually lived with Xiu wherever he held office.

宣為丞相時，修為臨菑令，宣迎後母，修不遣。 While Xue Xuan was chancellor, Xiu was magistrate of Linzi; when Xuan asked to bring the stepmother to the capital, Xiu refused to let her go.

後母病死，修去官持服。 When the stepmother died, Xiu resigned to observe the mourning rites.

宣謂修三年服少能行之者，兄弟相駁不可，修遂竟服，繇是兄弟不和。 Xue Xuan argued that few men truly kept the full three-year mourning and tried to talk his brother out of it; Xiu insisted on completing the full term anyway, and the two fell out.

事下有司，御史中丞眾等奏：「況朝臣，父故宰相，再封列侯，不相敕丞化，而骨肉相疑，疑咸受修言以謗毀宣。 The case went to the regular judiciary. Vice-Imperial Secretary Zhong and colleagues memorialized: "Xue Kuang is a court official whose father was twice a chancellor and a marquis, yet instead of setting a moral example he let kin turn on kin; Shen Xian is thought to have taken Xue Xiu's stories and used them to defame Xue Xuan.

咸厚善修，而數稱宣惡，流聞不誼，不可謂直。 Shen Xian was Xiu's intimate and kept retailing scandal about Xue Xuan; the talk that spread was hardly honorable—so his conduct was not "straight" either.