Jia Kui 賈逵

Chen Shou's main text gives no separate biography to the Later Han scholar Jia Kui and does not record his courtesy name, his native place, his offices or the dates of his birth and death. His name appears four times, only where the classical learning of scholars of a later age is described. Records, Shu 12 §43 · 47Records, Wei 4 §67Records, Wei 13 §96

According to the account of Yin Mo in Records of Shu 12, in Yi Province most people prized the new-text learning and did not esteem the study of chapter and verse, but Yin Mo, a man of Fu County in Zitong Commandery, knew that this was not broad enough, so he traveled far to study in Jing Province and received the old-text learning from Sima Decao (Sima Hui), Song Zhongzi (Song Zhong) and others. Yin Mo devoted himself to Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals, and from Liu Xin's Tiaoli to the commentaries and explanations of Zheng Zhong, Jia Kui, father and son, Chen Yuan and Fu Qian, he could recite and expound nearly all of them, so that he no longer had to open the books. Chen Shou's main text does not say who the father in 'Jia Kui, father and son' was. Records, Shu 12 §43

According to the account of Li Zhuan in the same volume, Li Zhuan's father Li Ren went to study in Jing Province together with Yin Mo of the same county and learned from Sima Hui, Song Zhong and others, and Li Zhuan received that learning in full. Li Zhuan wrote on the old-text Changes, Book of Documents, Mao Odes, Three Rites and Zuo Commentary, as well as the Taixuan Zhigui, all of which took Jia Kui and Ma Rong as their standard and differed from Zheng Xuan. Chen Shou wrote that Li Zhuan, being far removed from Wang Su, had never seen his writings, yet the conclusions of their meaning were largely the same. Records, Shu 12 §46–47

According to the account of Wang Su in Records of Wei 13, Wang Su at first favored the learning of Jia Kui and Ma Rong and disliked that of Master Zheng, that is, Zheng Xuan. Gathering the agreements and differences among the various interpretations, he wrote commentaries on the Book of Documents, the Book of Odes, the Analects, the Three Rites and the Zuo, and edited and settled the Commentary on the Changes written by his father Wang Lang, all of which were adopted by the official academies. When Wang Su compiled the Evidence from the Sages to disparage Zheng Xuan, Sun Shuran of Le'an, who had studied under Zheng Xuan, refuted and explained it. Records, Wei 13 §96–97

In the 4th month of summer in the 1st year of Ganlu (256), the Duke of Gaogui Village, Cao Mao, visited the Imperial Academy and questioned the scholars on the meaning of the classics. When the Book of Documents was expounded, the emperor asked which was right concerning 'jigu': Zheng Xuan said it meant that Yao was equal to Heaven, while Wang Su said it meant that Yao followed and examined the ways of old and acted on them. The Erudite Yu Jun said that the views of the earlier Confucian scholars diverged and he could not decide between them, but that by the saying of the 'Great Plan', 'When three men divine, follow the words of two,' Jia Kui and Ma Rong, as well as Wang Su, had all taken it as 'followed and examined the ways of old', so Wang Su's meaning was the better. The emperor countered that Yao's great excellence lay in taking Heaven as his model. Records, Wei 4 §48 · 60–62 · 67–68