Background
It is not known when Cui Sun was born. His family was from the prominent Cui clan of Boling (博陵, in modern Hengshui, Hebei) and had been prominent since Northern Wei. Cui Sun's ancestors traced their ancestry through a line of officials of Qin Dynasty, Han Dynasty, Jin Dynasty (265-420), Northern Wei, and Tang Dynasty, although, as far as Cui Sun's branch was concerned, after Cui Sun's great-grandfather Cui Xinggong (崔行功), who served as the director of the archival bureau (秘書省, Mishu Sheng), his grandfather and father were said to have little reputation, and their names were not even recorded in the New Book of Tang's table of the chancellors' family trees.
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