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Hua Xin
Late Han and Wei statesman who governed Yuzhang, succeeded Xun Yu as Cao Cao's director of the secretariat, and served Wei as chancellor, minister of education and grand commandant
In a council hall, a long table holds an unrolled map scroll, a brass-cornered chest and a brush pot, with tall-backed chairs around it and a bronze lamp at the left; a figure stands with their back turned on the balcony at the right, with palace roofs beyond.
Also known as Zi Ziyu
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Hua Xin, courtesy name Ziyu, came from Gaotang in Pingyuan; the Weilue says he, Bing Yuan and Guan Ning were called one dragon, with Hua as its head. Recommended by Ma Midi, he governed Yuzhang with a light hand, and when Sun Ce overran the lower Yangzi he met him in a plain headcloth and was treated as a guest of honour. After Sun Ce's death Cao Cao had him summoned north, and he rose to succeed Xun Yu as director of the secretariat. In 214, according to the History of the Later Han (Hou Han shu), Hua led the soldiers who seized the deposed Empress Fu. Under Wei he was grand censor, then chancellor and minister of education under Cao Pi, and grand commandant under Emperor Ming; he died in January 232 as Marquis Jing. A New Account of Tales of the World (Shishuo xinyu) tells how Guan Ning cut their shared mat in two when Hua left his books to gape at a passing carriage.
Life and times
Dates 157 CE–232 CE