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Su Chuo
Western Wei institutional reformer and chancellor who formulated the Six Edicts and budgetary accounting foundations of the Guanlong bloc.
Mural guide
In a riverside storehouse, sacks of grain and white salt blocks are stacked high; workers weigh grain in a basket hung from a large steelyard, others carry sacks along a plank onto a barge at the right, and a clerk sits at an abacus beside bundled tally sticks.
Also known as Zi Lingchuo · Minister Su Chuo · Liutiao Zhaoshu Zuozhe
Su Chuo (498 CE–546 CE) was the preeminent institutional architect of Western Wei under Yuwen Tai. He authored the famous Six Edicts and pioneered modern bureaucratic accounting and civil governance systems.
Life and times
- 498 CEBorn
Northern and Southern - 546 CEDied
- 550Establishment of Fubing System
PrecursorIntegrating military service with agrarian tenancy, creating the formidable military engine of Sui and Tang.
Works
Literature · Prose2- Edict of Six ArticlesNorthern and SouthernSu Chuo's Western Wei charter for local officials, drafted for Yuwen Tai in six articles
- Book of Zhou: The Great AnnouncementTang
- Literature · Sayings1
- Governing the Realm Together with the RulerNorthern and SouthernFamous phrase from Su Chuo's Six-Article Edict: good prefects share the work of ruling
Family tree
- Direct kin
Su ChuoSon
Connections
- Shared events5
- Rulers and officials1