Xun Xu

In this Chinese name, the family name is Xun.
Xun Xu
荀勗 / 荀勖
Prefect of the Masters of Writing
(尚書令)
In office
c. 280s (c. 280s)–289 (289)
MonarchEmperor Wu of Jin
Household Counsellor (光祿大夫)
In office
?–?
MonarchEmperor Wu of Jin
Zhuzuo (著作)
In office
266–?
MonarchEmperor Wu of Jin
Palace Attendant (侍中)
In office
266–?
MonarchEmperor Wu of Jin
In office
264–266
MonarchCao Huan
Supervisor of the Palace Writers
(中書監)
In office
266–?
MonarchEmperor Wu of Jin
Official in the Hall of Records
(記室)
In office
?–?
MonarchCao Mao / Cao Huan
Judge under the Minister of Justice
(廷尉正)
In office
?–?
MonarchCao Mao / Cao Huan
Assistant Palace Gentleman
(從事中郎)
In office
?–?
MonarchCao Fang / Cao Mao
Prefect of Anyang (安陽令)
In office
?–?
MonarchCao Fang / Cao Mao
Personal details
BornUnknown[1]
DiedDecember 289[2]
Relations
Children
  • Xun Ji
  • Xun Fan
  • Xun Zu
  • two other unnamed sons and one unnamed daughter
Parents
OccupationMusician, painter, politician, writer
Courtesy nameGongzeng (公曾)
Posthumous nameMarquis Cheng (成侯)

Xun Xu (c. 221 – 289),[3] courtesy name Gongzeng, was a Chinese musician, painter, politician, and writer who lived during the late Three Kingdoms period and early Jin dynasty of China. Born in the influential Xun family, he was a great-grandson of Xun Shuang and a distant maternal relative of Zhong Yao's family (and Zhong Yao's grandnephew). He served as an official in the state of Cao Wei in the late Three Kingdoms era before serving under the Jin dynasty.[4][5]

  1. ^ While Xun Xu's birth year is not recorded, his biography indicated that he was brought up by Zhong Yao, and that Zhong was still alive when he was around 10 (by East Asian reckoning). Since Zhong died in 230, Xun Xu's birth year should be in or before 221.
  2. ^ Both Sima Yan's biography in Book of Jin and vol. 82 of Zizhi Tongjian indicated that Xun Xu died on the bingchen day of the 11th month of the 10th year of the Taikang era. However, there is no bingchen day in that month; the month corresponds to 30 Nov to 28 Dec 289 in the Julian calendar.
  3. ^ Goodman, Howard L.; Lien, Y. Edmund (April 2009). "A Third Century AD Chinese System of Di-Flute Temperament: Matching Ancient Pitch-Standards and Confronting Modal Practice". The Galpin Society Journal. 62. Galpin Society: 3–24. JSTOR 20753625.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference JS death was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ (十一月，丙辰，尚書令濟北成侯荀勗卒。) Zizhi Tongjian vol. 82.