Xue Zong Explained

Xue Zong
Native Name:薛綜
Office:Junior Tutor of the Crown Prince
(太子少傅)
Chancellor:Gu Yong
Office1:Master of Writing in the Selection Bureau
(選曹尚書)
Monarch1:Sun Quan
Chancellor1:Gu Yong
Office2:Supervisor of the Masters of Writing
(尚書僕射)
Monarch2:Sun Quan
Chancellor3:Gu Yong
Office4:Master of Writing in the Crime Bureau
(賊曹尚書)
Monarch4:Sun Quan
Chancellor4:Gu Yong
Office5:Chief Clerk (長史)
Monarch5:Sun Quan
Chancellor5:Gu Yong
Office6:Supervisor of the Internuncios
(謁者僕射)
Monarch6:Sun Quan
Chancellor6:Sun Shao (222–225)
Gu Yong (from 225)
Office7:General of the Household for All Purposes
(五官中郎將)
Birth Date:Unknown
Birth Place:Suixi County, Anhui
Death Date:243
Occupation:Poet, politician
Blank1:Courtesy name
Data1:Jingwen (敬文)

Xue Zong (died 243), courtesy name Jingwen, was a Chinese poet and politician of the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China. He was known for his quick wit. On one occasion, when the Shu envoy Zhang Feng (Chinese: 張奉) made fun of the name of his colleague Kan Ze during a feast, he gained somewhat of a measure of revenge by making fun of Shu's name. He was also known for assisting Lü Dai in the pacification of Jiaozhi Commandery (covering parts of present-day western Guangdong, southwestern Guangxi and northern Vietnam). In 233, when Sun Quan considered an ill-advised campaign to the Liaodong Peninsula against the recalcitrant warlord Gongsun Yuan (who had submitted to him and then betrayed him and killed his envoys), Xue Zong was one of the officials who spoke against the campaign, eventually getting Sun Quan to change his mind. Xue Zong had two sons: Xue Ying and Xue Xu.

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