CIVILIZATION DOSSIER
Chai Jin柴进
Descendant of Chai Shizong of the Later Zhou, holder of an iron certificate of immunity, who gathered worthy men.
- DIRECT FIGURES
- 20
- RELATION RECORDS
- 29
- SOURCE WORKS
- 1
RELATIONSHIP COMPASS
Chai Jin, and the people around them.
Open one chapter at a time. Each chapter gives the relationship first, then the source text behind it.
01MENTORSHIPMentorship
Teachers, disciples and transmission
1 figure · 1 record+
Mentorship
Teachers, disciples and transmission
Chai Jin→Yan Qingpeer
02KINSHIPKinship
Blood, marriage and sworn bonds
4 figures · 4 records+
Kinship
Blood, marriage and sworn bonds
Song Jiang—Chai Jinsworn brothers
Fang La—Chai Jinadopt
Chai Jin—Princess Jinzhispouse
03ALLEGIANCEAllegiance
Rulers, appointments and allegiance
6 figures · 7 records+
Allegiance
Rulers, appointments and allegiance
Song Jiang→Chai Jinflee to
Fang La→Chai Jinappoint official
Chai Jin→Wu Yongreceive orders
04CONFLICTConflict
Battles, captures and defeat
9 figures · 9 records+
Conflict
Battles, captures and defeat
Song Jiang→Chai Jinrescue
Li Kui→Chai Jinsuspect
Chai Jin→Lu Junyirelease
05THE UNSEENMythic acts
Transformation, aid and divine punishment
6 figures · 8 records+
Mythic acts
Transformation, aid and divine punishment
Chai Jin→Lin Chongfund
Song Jiang→Chai Jinrescue
12 key relationships are shown here. The complete record remains below.
History vs. fiction
Descendants of the Later Zhou royal family and the iron certificate
According to the History of Song, after Emperor Taizu of Song, Zhao Kuangyin, seized the Later Zhou regime through the Chenqiao Mutiny, he indeed granted generous treatment to the Chai royal family to show his favor. However, there is no specific official record of a descendant of the Chai family holding an 'iron certificate with a vow' that could exempt them from the death penalty. Such certificates are mostly seen in exaggerated renditions in later storytelling and novels. The official history absolutely has no clue that a descendant of the Later Zhou royal family befriended bandits and went to Liangshan. The character Chai Jin is a literary fiction satirizing the corruption of the Song legal system.
Relationship network
Original text (4)
迳望沧州路上来
想起大官人仗义疏财,特来投奔。
传令柴进同李应去守陵川
Original relation: dispatch · Water Margin, ch. 91
宋江便令花荣出马迎敌。
Original relation: commander · Water Margin, ch. 119
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且去大牢中救出柴大官人来。
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宋江与柴进商议
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小可和柴大官人旧来有恩,情愿替哥哥下山
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这后生不是别人,只是柴进
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李逵叫一声:“柴大官人!”那里见动,把手去摸时,只觉口内微微声唤。
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柴进便唤庄客,叫将酒来
Original relation: entertain · Water Margin, ch. 9
柴进又置席面相待送行;又写两封书,吩咐林冲道
柴进道:“既是兄长要行,小人有个去处,作书一封与兄长前去。”
柴进道:“是山东济州管下一个水乡,地名梁山泊…………我今修一封书与兄长,去投那里入伙如何?”
Original relation: recommend · Water Margin, ch. 11
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来此容身,皆是柴大官人举荐到此
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柴进身边取出器械,便去开枷,放了卢俊义、石秀
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柴大官人自来与山寨有恩,今日他有危难,如何不下山去救他?我亲自去走一遭
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道:“我扮做个白衣秀才,你扮做个仆者
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柴进一力相劝
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柴进身边取出器械,便去开枷,放了卢俊义、石秀
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把金芝公主招赘柴进为驸马
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加封为中书侍郎
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柯驸马当下同领南兵,带了云璧奉尉,披挂上马出师。
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某乃是中原一秀士
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今将一千两黄金薄礼在此
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带柴进、乐和迳奔牢中去了
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教军士将粮草、火炮、车辆,教李应领兵三千
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把柴进打得皮开肉绽,鲜血迸流,只得招做使令庄客李大打死殷天锡,取面二十五斤死囚枷钉了,发下牢里监收
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白银十两相送……董超、薛霸见了柴进人物轩昂,不敢违他
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白银十两相送……董超、薛霸见了柴进人物轩昂,不敢违他
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早被柴进一枪戳著。
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柴进自从与公主成亲之后
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小可是柴皇城亲侄柴进
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王班直拿起酒来,一饮而尽。恰才吃罢,口角流涎,两脚腾空,倒在凳上。
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昨日引柴进去后面枯井边,开了枷锁,推放里面躲避