Person

Pei Songzhi

The man who wrote a commentary on the Tam quoc chi about two hundred years after Si Nhiep’s death; he set down at the foot of Si Nhiep’s biography a tale of revival by an immortal taken from Ge Hong’s Shenxian zhuan, and his commentary quotes Sun Sheng rebuking Lu Dai.

At a glance

Dates
He wrote his commentary about two hundred years after Si Nhiep died in 2261
Role
The commentator on the Tam quoc chi; he set down at the foot of Si Nhiep’s biography a story taken from Ge Hong’s Shenxian zhuan, and quoted Sun Sheng rebuking Lu Dai for killing Si Huy and his brothers12

Life

The old chronicles say

About two hundred years after Si Nhiep’s death, Pei Songzhi wrote a commentary on the Tam quoc chi, and set down at the foot of Si Nhiep’s biography a story taken from Ge Hong’s Shenxian zhuan, a book about immortals: the immortal Dong Phung bringing Si Nhiep back to life after he had been dead of illness for three days. This is a commentator’s note, and the commentator named his source plainly: a book about immortals. The Complete Annals later lift the story into the main text, changing the source book to the Liexian zhuan and Dong Phung’s courtesy name to Xuong Di.13

Pei Songzhi’s commentary also quotes Sun Sheng, a man of the fourth century, rebuking Lu Dai outright over the killing of Si Huy and his brothers: Huy and his brothers had given themselves over wholeheartedly to his command; Dai took the chance to destroy them for the sake of merit, and from this the gentleman knows that Sun Quan had no far-sighted plans. The main text of Si Nhiep’s biography tells how Lu Dai had Huy promised that he would lose his office but have nothing else to fear, and then killed him and his brothers, six men.24

Mentioned in

  1. Episode 3Si Nhiep holds Giao Chau amid the turmoil of the Three Kingdoms17 min

Sources for this page

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  1. Tam quoc chi

    book 49, the biography of Si Nhiep, Pei Songzhi’s commentary quoting Ge Hong’s Shenxian zhuan

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  2. Tam quoc chi

    Pei Songzhi’s commentary quoting Sun Sheng’s comment on Lu Dai’s killing of Si Huy and his brothers

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  3. Dai Viet su ky toan thu

    Outer Annals book 3, the Annal of Si Vuong, folios 11b-12a, main text for the year Binh Ngo

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  4. Tam quoc chi

    book 49, the Book of Wu, the biography of Si Nhiep, main text

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