习凿齿 / Xi Zaochi

Overview

习凿齿 / Xi Zaochi enters the wiki as the Eastern Jin historian whose criticism of 曹操 supplies Hanji 1109’s interpretive frame for the post-Red-Cliffs balance.

Current Profile

The episode compares Xi Zaochi’s judgment with the story of Duke Huan of Qi losing support after displaying achievement. Xi Zaochi argues that Cao Cao’s pride after accumulated success damaged personnel reception and strategic opportunity, helping 刘备 and 孙权 consolidate rival positions.

Key Characteristics

• Functions in the source as a later historian evaluating political character through strategic consequence.
• Connects Cao Cao’s treatment of 张松 with the broader post-Red-Cliffs reversal.
• Treats pride as a repeated decision distortion rather than one isolated etiquette failure.

Evidence

• Historical judgment: Hanji 1109 attributes to Xi Zaochi the judgment that Cao Cao’s arrogance squandered long-built advantage and promoted tripartite division.
• Comparative frame: Hanji 1109 pairs the judgment with Duke Huan of Qi as a warning about displaying achievement and losing supporters.
• Personnel consequence: Hanji 1109 uses Zhang Song’s reception as the concrete bridge from character judgment to alliance change.

Qualifications

This is not yet a general biography of Xi Zaochi or a full account of his historiography. The wording reaches the wiki through a short popular-history episode, and its single-character causal emphasis does not displace military, geographic, fiscal, and coalition explanations.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 1109’s post-Red-Cliffs historical judgment.

Relationships

• 曹操 - ruler whose pride and lost opportunity Xi Zaochi criticizes.
• 张松 - emissary whose reception makes the critique concrete.
• 刘备 - rival beneficiary in the episode’s tripartite-balance reading.
• 孙权 - other rival whose post-Red-Cliffs position strengthens.
• 得势后的骄傲 - concept generalized from the judgment while preserving causal qualifications.