Ancient China · Named Individual

Boyi 伯夷

Bo Yi

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Boyi was a Named Individual.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 118

Assessments and attributes

Assessment exemplar-of-worth · Mode quotation Speaker Feng Gun (馮緄)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 118

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 118

References in the histories

Book of Later Han, Chapter 43Volume 38: Biographies of Zhang, Fa, Teng, Feng, Du, Yang · 1 passage

緄性烈直，不行賄賂，懼為所中，乃上疏曰：「埶得容姦，伯夷可疑； Feng Gun was blunt and took no bribes, yet he feared a eunuch's frame. He wrote: "If favoritism can make a villain of a worthy, even Boyi would look guilty;