崔州平 / Cui Zhouping

Overview

崔州平 / Cui Zhouping is a late-Han recluse and associate of 诸葛亮 whose wiki profile now separates his historical friendship network from his later 《三国演义》 reception image. He is also presented as a son of 崔烈, creating a family contrast between the father’s bought-office disgrace and the son’s reclusive reputation.

Current Profile

Hanji 934 introduces Cui Zhouping as a literary gateway into the late-Han Liangzhou crisis. Its opening evokes the plain robe and 逍遥巾 associated with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms scene in which 刘备 briefly mistakes him for Zhuge Liang. That source does not make him an actor in the subsequent frontier-policy dispute; his function there is reception and narrative transition.

Hanji 1081 adds a narrower historical-social role. It places Cui Zhouping with 徐庶 among the people who recognized Zhuge Liang’s talent during the latter’s farming and reclusion years, and identifies Cui Zhouping as Cui Lie’s son. The episode interprets the two generations as disgrace followed by redemption, but that moral closure remains the host’s framing rather than a demonstrated family program.

Key Characteristics

• Late-Han recluse associated with Zhuge Liang’s Jingzhou friendship network.
• Early recognizer of Zhuge Liang’s ability alongside Xu Shu in Hanji 1081’s account.
• Son of Cui Lie in the episode’s family genealogy.
• Literary reception figure recognizable from Liu Bei’s Longzhong-visit scenes.
• Bridge between popular Three Kingdoms memory and narrower late-Han political history.

Evidence

• Literary reception: Hanji 934 uses Cui Zhouping’s novelistic appearance to open a source mainly concerned with Cui Lie, Fu Xie, Liangzhou, and Huangfu Song.
• Friendship and talent recognition: Hanji 1081 places him with Xu Shu among Zhuge Liang’s friends and early appreciators.
• Family connection: Hanji 1081 identifies Cui Zhouping as Cui Lie’s son and uses their reputations as a two-generation contrast.

Qualifications

The bounded sources do not supply a continuous biography, offices, dates, writings, or independent evidence for Cui Zhouping’s motives. Hanji 934 is explicitly a literary-reception opening, while Hanji 1081 gives only a compact friendship and genealogy claim. The latter’s “two-generation redemption” language is interpretive and should not be treated as Cui Zhouping’s stated project.

What Changed

• Migrated the page to the synthesis-v1 entity contract.
• Added the friendship and talent-recognition link with Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu.
• Added the Cui Lie father-son relationship while qualifying the episode’s redemption narrative.
• Separated historical-network evidence from later literary reception.

Relationships

• 诸葛亮 - friend whose ability Cui Zhouping is said to have recognized.
• 徐庶 - fellow member of Zhuge Liang’s early recognition network.
• 崔烈 - father whose damaged official reputation the episode contrasts with Cui Zhouping’s reclusion.
• 刘备 - visitor who mistakes Cui Zhouping for Zhuge Liang in the literary reception scene.
• 《三国演义》 - later narrative tradition that makes Cui Zhouping a familiar Longzhong figure.
• 隆中对 - strategic episode adjacent to the friendship and recruitment network, not a plan attributed to Cui Zhouping.