Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Courtier and Attendant

Dame Lu 陸媼

Lù Ǎo

Attested AD 571 - AD 573

Passages: 11
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Dame Lu was a Courtier and Attendant.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 571 to AD 573 後主時
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 39, passages 192, 208, 234

Places and affiliations

Polity Northern Qi 北齊 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 192

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Paraphrased
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 194
Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passages 234-236

Events and relationships

Disagreed with Mu Tipo
Political · Debater · With Mu Tipo (穆提婆)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 226
Echoed demotion
Political · Supporter · With Gao Yuanhai (高元海)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 217
Inspected building
Inspection · Inspector · With Zu Ting (祖珽)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 196
Slandered and blocked Hu brothers
Political · Opponent
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 229
Relation Recommender of · Person Zu Ting (祖珽)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 234

Assessments and attributes

Assessment heroic since Nüwa · Mode named-speech Speaker Zu Ting (祖珽)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 193
Assessment recommended Ting as gifted good man on He Shikai's word; later judged him guilty · Mode named-speech Speaker Dame Lu (陸媼)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passages 234-235

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 192

References in the histories

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History

11 passages

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 39Volume 39 Biographies 31: Cui Jishu; Zu Ting · 11 passages

又太后之被幽也，珽欲以陸媼為太后，撰魏帝皇太后故事，為太姬言之。 When the empress dowager was confined, Ting wished to make Dame Lu empress dowager. He compiled Wei precedents on the emperor's mother and empress dowager and laid them before the Grand Dame.

謂人曰：「太姬雖云婦人，實是雄傑，女媧已來無有也。」 He told others, "Though the Grand Dame is called a woman, she is a hero in truth—since Nüwa there has been no one like her."

太姬亦稱珽為國師、國寶。 The Grand Dame in turn called Ting State Teacher and National Treasure.

所住宅在義井坊，旁拓鄰居，大事修築，陸媼自往案行。 His house stood in Yijing Ward. He bought out neighbors and undertook great building; Dame Lu herself went to inspect the work.

珽幷云「盲老翁是臣」，云與國同憂戚，勸上行，語「其多事老母，似道女侍中陸氏」。 He said "the blind old man" meant himself — one who shared the state's weal and woe — and pressed the emperor to move. He said "the meddlesome old woman" seemed to point to Female Attendant-in-Ordinary of the Lu clan.

珽又附陸媼，求為領軍，後主許之。 Ting courted Lu Matron again and asked for command of the guards; the Later Sovereign agreed.

陸媼又唱和之，復除元海鄭州刺史。 Lu Matron joined the chorus, and Yuanhai was packed off as governor of Zhengzhou.

陸媼、穆提婆議頗同異。 Lu Matron and Mu Tipo argued on opposite sides.

珽乃諷御史中丞麗伯侓令劾主書王子沖納賄，知其事連穆提婆，欲使贓罪相及，望因此坐，幷及陸媼。 Ting therefore nudged vice director of the censorate Li Boju to impeach chief clerk Wang Zichong for bribery, knowing the case would rope in Mu Tipo — he meant the taint of graft to spread and pull Lu Matron down with them.

陸媼聞而懷怒，百方排毀，卽出君瑜為金紫光祿大夫，解中領軍，君璧還鎮梁州。 Lu Matron heard and burned with anger. She slandered them by every means, had Junyu made bearer of the golden seal and purple ribbon and stripped of the guards, and sent Junbi back to Liang Province.

後主問諸太姬，憫默不對，及三問，乃下床拜曰：「老婢合死，本見和士開道孝徵多才博學，言為善人，故舉之。 The Later Sovereign questioned Tai Ji. She grieved in silence until he asked a third time; then she left the couch and bowed. "This old serving-woman deserves death," she said. "He Shikai told me Xiaozheng was learned and gifted and a good man, and so I raised him up.