Sui and Tang · Named Individual

Daughter of Zheng Shenzuo 鄭神佐女

Born c. AD 828

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Daughter of Zheng Shenzuo was a Named Individual.

Life and dates

Age

24
AD 851 大中五年 · Reckoning Sui
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 324

Attested activity

AD 851 大中五年
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passages 324, 327

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Betrothed to Li Xuanqing (李玄慶)
betrothed 許適 · Betrothal · Ended · AD 851 大中五年
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passages 324, 328
Child of Zheng Shenzuo (鄭神佐)
father 父
daughter 女
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passages 324, 327
Child of Mother of Zheng Shenzuo's Daughter (鄭神佐女母)
mother 母
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passages 326-327

Career and standing

household marked by edict (jingbiao) 旌表門閭
Granted
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 333

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Subject of
Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 193, passages 324, 333
At Xiqiu County, Yan Prefecture 兗州瑕丘縣
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 324
At Maqing Village, Jinxian Township, Xiqiu County 瑕丘縣進賢鄉馬青村 · Relation Buried parents at
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 327

Events and relationships

Cut hair and marred form; went to Qing Prefecture; escorted father's coffin; joint burial with mother at Maqing Village
AD 851 大中五年 · Ritual · Mourner
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 327
Lived in a hut at the grave, planted pine and cypress, swore not to marry
Personal · Vow maker
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 328

Assessments and attributes

Assessment displayed filial principle and inspired chaste integrity · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Xiao Jiao (蕭椒)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passages 330-332

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 324

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 193Volume 187 Biographies 137: Loyal and Righteous 1 · 3 passages

又大中五年，兗州瑕丘縣人鄭神佐女，年二十四，先許適馳雄牙官李玄慶。 Also in the fifth year of Dazhong, the daughter of Zheng Shenzuo of Xiqiu County in Yan Prefecture, aged twenty-four, had been betrothed to Li Xuanqing, an officer of the Chixiong garrison.

女以父戰歿邊城，無由得還，乃剪髮壞形，自往慶州護父喪還，至瑕丘縣進賢鄉馬青村，與母合葬。 Because her father died on the frontier with no means of return, she cut her hair and marred her form, went herself to Qing Prefecture to escort his coffin back, and buried him with her mother at Maqing Village in Jinxian Township of Xiqiu County.

鄭氏女痛結窮泉，哀深《陟岵》，投身沙磧，歸父遺骸，遠自邊陲，得還閭里。 The daughter of the Zheng clan, grief bound to the deep spring, sorrow deep as in 'Ascending the Knoll'—she threw herself into sandy wastes, recovered her father's remains, and returned from the distant border to her native village."