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Xue Juzheng

Official of the Five Dynasties and early Song who, as chief minister, supervised the compilation of the Old History of the Five Dynasties.

Also known as Zi Ziping

Xue Juzheng, courtesy name Ziping, was a native of Junyi in Kaifeng. He passed the jinshi in the Qingtai era of Later Tang and served the Later Jin, Later Han and Later Zhou before entering the Song, where he became Assistant Chief Minister and then Chief Minister, being made Minister of Works under Taizong. Ordered in 973 to supervise a history of the Five Dynasties, he saw it completed the following year; covering the Liang, Tang, Jin, Han and Zhou, it is now called the Old History of the Five Dynasties to distinguish it from Ouyang Xiu's New History. He died in 981 aged 70, posthumously named Wenhui.

Life and times

  1. 912BornFive Dynasties and Ten KingdomsSong
  2. 981 CEDied

Works

  1. Literature · Prose158
    1. Old History of the Five DynastiesSongEarly Song official history of the Five Dynasties under Xue Juzheng, rebuilt by Qing scholars
    2. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Book of LiangSong
    3. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Book of TangSong
    4. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Book of JinSong
    5. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Book of HanSong
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      1. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Book of ZhouSong
      2. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Biographies (Hereditary Houses, Usurping States, Foreign States)Song
      3. Old History of the Five Dynasties: TreatisesSong
      4. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Annals of Taizu of Liang, Part 1Song
      5. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Annals of Taizu of Liang, Part 2Song
      6. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Annals of Taizu of Liang, Part 3Song
      7. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Annals of Taizu of Liang, Part 4Song
      8. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Annals of Taizu of Liang, Part 5Song
      9. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Annals of Taizu of Liang, Part 6Song
      10. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Annals of Taizu of Liang, Part 7Song
      11. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Annals of the Last Emperor of Liang, Part 1Song
      12. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Annals of the Last Emperor of Liang, Part 2Song
      13. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Annals of the Last Emperor of Liang, Part 3Song
      14. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Biographies of Empresses and Consorts of LiangSong
      15. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Biographies of the Imperial Clan of LiangSong
      16. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Biographies of Zhu Xuan, Zhu Jin, Shi Pu, Wang Shifan, Liu Zhijun, Yang Chongben, Jiang Yin and Zhang WanjinSong
      17. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Biographies of Luo Shaowei, Zhao Chou and Wang KeSong
      18. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Biographies of Han Jian, Li Hanzhi, Feng Xingxi, Sun Dezhao, Zhao Keyu and Zhang ShensiSong
      19. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Biographies of Ge Congzhou, Xie Yanzhang, Hu Zhen, Zhang Guiba, Zhang Guihou and Zhang GuibianSong
      20. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Biographies of Cheng Rui, Du Hong, Tian Jun, Zhao Kuangning, Zhang Ji and Lei ManSong
      21. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Biographies of Zhang Wenwei, Xue Yiju, Zhang Ce, Du Xiao, Jing Xiang and Li ZhenSong
      22. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Biographies of Shi Shucong, Zhu Yougong, Wang Chongshi, Zhu Zhen, Li Si'an, Deng Jiyun, Huang Wenjing, Hu Gui, Li Dang, Li Chongyin and Fan JushiSong
      23. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Biographies of Xie Tong, Sima Ye, Liu Han, Wang Jingrao, Gao Shao, Ma Sixun, Zhang Cunjing and Kou YanqingSong
      24. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Biographies of Pang Shigu, Huo Cun, Fu Daozhao, Xu Huaiyu, Guo Yan, Li Tangbin, Wang Qianyu, Liu Kangyi, Wang Yanzhang and He DelunSong
      25. Old History of the Five Dynasties: Biographies of Yang Shihou, Niu Cunjie and Wang TanSong
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  2. Literature · Sayings2
    1. Keep Faithfully to the Mean: The Khitan Investiture of Shi JingtangSongIdiom from the Old History of the Five Dynasties: a Khitan edict crowns Shi Jingtang
    2. As Easy as Turning Over One's PalmSongIdiom from the Old History of the Five Dynasties: a coup as easy as flipping a hand

Connections

  1. Rulers and officials1
    1. Zhao KuangyinSovereign · 927 CE–976 CE