Yang Xiuzhi (陽休之)

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Yang Xiuzhi was a Vice Premier of Qi.

PeriodThree Kingdoms and Six Dynasties

IdentityHistorical · Male

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Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 560 to AD 561 乾明皇建
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 31, passages 162, 177
AD 550 五月
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 30, passage 126
c. AD 575 to c. AD 577 令其僕射陽休之責謙
Strongly inferred · Book of Sui 54, passage 68
AD 549 文襄遇難
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 19
AD 576 武平七年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 43, passage 184
AD 564 河清三年
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 43, passage 62

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AD 560 遵彥死
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 34, passage 178
AD 577 陽休之等十八人同入關
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 38, passage 96
AD 550 to AD 565 齊朝
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 43, passage 101

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Career and standing

Director of the Masters of Writing 尚書
Held
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 31, passage 162
minister 尚書
Held
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 43, passage 62
Palace Reception Vice Director 鴻臚少卿
Held
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 34, passage 178
Vice Premier 僕射
Held · Polity Qi 齊
Directly stated · Book of Sui 54, passage 68

Works and attributed material

Your noble court is mobilizing troops in midsummer—where are your horses' heads turned?
Remark · Speaker · Mode quotation Speaker Yang Xiuzhi (陽休之)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 54, passage 68
一日不朝，其間容刀
Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Cui Jishu (崔季舒)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 19
Speech · Speaker · Mode hearsay
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 34, passage 178

Events and relationships

Ordered into Zhou capital with Yuan Biao
AD 576 武平七年 · Political · Deportee official · With Yuan Biao (源彪)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 43, passage 184
Urged Jishu to follow Gao Yang
Counsel · Adviser · With Cui Jishu (崔季舒)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 19

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 19

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History

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 30Volume 30 Biographies 22: Cui Xian; Gao Dezheng; Cui Ang · 1 passage

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山提以五月至鄴，楊愔卽召太常卿邢卲、七兵尚書崔㥄悛、度支尚書陸操、詹事王昕、黃門侍郎陽休之、中書侍郎裴讓之等議撰儀注。 Shanti reached Ye in the fifth month; Yang Yin at once summoned director of ceremonies Xing Shao, minister of the seven armies Cui Lingjun, minister of revenue Lu Cao, household mentor Wang Xin, yellow gate attendant Yang Xiuzhi, secretariat gentleman Pei Rangzhi, and others to draft the ritual regulations.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 31Volume 31 Biographies 23: Wang Xin; Wang Xi · 3 passages

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因勑尚書陽休之、鴻臚卿崔劼等三人，每日本職務罷，並入東廊，共舉錄歷代廢禮墜樂、職司廢置、朝饗異同、輿服增損。 He ordered director of the Masters of Writing Yang Xiuzhi, director of ceremonies Cui Jie, and one other — three men — each day when their proper duties ended, all to enter the eastern corridor and together record rites fallen and music lost through the ages, offices abolished, court sacrifice differences, carriage dress additions and subtractions.

時二人奏車駕北征後，人言陽休之、王晞數與諸人遊宴，不以公事在懷。 At that time the two reported that after the imperial carriage's northern campaign, people said Yang Xiuzhi and Wang Xi often feasted and wandered with others, not keeping public business in mind.

帝杖休之、晞脛各四十。 The emperor flogged Xiuzhi and Wang Xi each forty blows on the shins.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 34Volume 34 Biographies 26: Yang Yin; Yan Zixian; Song Qindao; Zheng Yi · 1 passage

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鴻臚少卿陽休之私謂人曰：「將涉千里，殺騏驥而策蹇驢，可悲之甚。」 Palace reception vice director Yang Xiuzhi said privately, "One is about to cross a thousand li, yet kills the qilin and drives a lame donkey—how pitiful."

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 38Volume 38 Biographies 30: Xin Shu; Yuan Wenyao; Zhao Yanshen · 1 passage

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齊亡，陽休之等十八人同入關，稍遷司勳下大夫。 When Qi fell, Yang Xiuzhi and eighteen others entered the passes together with him. He rose gradually to lower grand master in the bureau of merits.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 39Volume 39 Biographies 31: Cui Jishu; Zu Ting · 1 passage

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及文襄遇難，文宣將赴晉陽，黃門郎陽休之勸季舒從行，曰：「一日不朝，其間容刀。」 When Gao Cheng was killed, Gao Yang was bound for Jinyang. Gentleman of the yellow gate Yang Xiuzhi urged Jishu to go with him, saying, "Miss one day at court and a blade may hide in the interval."

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 43Volume 43 Biographies 35: Li Zhilian; Feng Shu; Xu Dun; Yang Lie; Yuan Biao · 3 passages

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河清三年，勑與錄尚書趙彥深、僕射魏收、尚書陽休之、國子祭酒馬敬德等議定律令。 In the third Heqing year an edict ordered him together with recorder of the masters of writing Zhao Yanshen, vice director Wei Shou, minister Yang Xiuzhi, and director of the imperial academy Ma Jingde and others to deliberate on laws and ordinances.

雖久處朝行，歷官清顯，與邢卲、魏收、陽休之、崔劼、徐之才之徒比肩同列，諸人或談說經史，或吟詠詩賦，更相嘲戲，欣笑滿堂，惇不解劇談，又無學術，或竟坐杜口，或隱几而睡，深為勝流所輕。 Though he long walked the court ranks and held clear, eminent offices, standing shoulder to shoulder with Xing Shao, Wei Shou, Yang Xiuzhi, Cui Jie, Xu Zhicai, and the like—some discussed the classics and histories, some chanted poetry and rhapsodies, mocking one another in turn with laughter filling the hall—Dun did not understand lively talk and had no learning; sometimes he sat the whole time with sealed lips, sometimes hid behind a desk and slept, and was deeply slighted by the leading circles.

武平七年，周武平齊，與陽休之、袁聿修等十八人同勑入京，授儀同大將軍、司成下大夫。 In Wuping's seventh year, when Zhou pacified Qi, he was issued an edict into the capital with Yang Xiuzhi, Yuan Yuxiu, and eighteen others, and made general of the establishment of the same rank and junior mentor in the Directorate of the Sons of the State.

Book of Sui, Chapter 54Volume 54 Biographies 19: Wang Zhangshu, Li Yan, Yi Louqian, Tian Rengong, Yuan Heng, Du Zheng, Li Che, Cui Peng · 1 passage

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齊主知之，令其僕射陽休之責謙曰：「貴朝盛夏徵兵，馬首何向？」 When the Qi ruler learned of this, his vice premier Yang Xiuzhi challenged Qian: "Your court is mobilizing in high summer—where are your armies heading?"