Fuhu (伏護) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Fuhu as a courtier, family member, named individual, and official. This record brings together 4 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Fuhu	伏護	Fúhù
Courtesy	Chenyuan	臣援	Chényuán
Personal	Fuhu	伏護

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · beiqishu:014:s0001
Sex: male
Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0223, beiqishu:014:s0224

Roles

Courtier
Family Member
Named Individual
Official

Life and dates

Death

Cause: alcohol-related decline ending in death / 事事酣酒，神識恍惚，遂以卒
Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0226

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 北齊 · Qualitative: attested only in the chapter title listing of Gao clan princes and officials under Northern Qi · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 577
Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0001
Source Date: Text: 天統初 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 565
Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0225
Source Date: Text: 文宣帝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 559
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:014:s0223

Family

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Child of Lingshan (靈山)
Kinship Term: heir / 後 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: adoptive father · Object Role: adoptive heir
Child of Jianguo (建國)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: Gentleman Attendant at the Yellow Gates / 黃門侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天統初 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 565
Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0225
Label: Governor of Yan Province / 兗州刺史 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0227

Places and affiliations

Polity: Northern Qi / 北齊 · Relation: served
Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0225, beiqishu:014:s0226

Learning and skills

Skill: administrative writing and clerical skill / 刀筆 · Level: modest
Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0224

Works and attributed material

Kind: narrative · Role: subject · Statement: career, drunkenness, and death
Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0224, beiqishu:014:s0225, beiqishu:014:s0226, beiqishu:014:s0227

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: appointee · Action: made-heir · Other Person Id: Lingshan (靈山) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 文宣帝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 559
Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0223
Kind: political · Role: official · Action: served-through-reigns · Statement: served several reigns and always took part in confidential counsel / 歷事數朝，恒參機要
Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0226

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: craved wine and often blundered when drunk; the failing worsened in his last years · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0226
Kind: habit · Statement: heavy drinker who went days without eating and drank until his mind grew dim
Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0226

Source notes

Statement: named as a successor son (嗣子) in the chapter title listing
Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0001

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 14Volume 14 Biographies 6: Guangping Gongcheng; Yangzhou Gong Yongle; Di Zhangbi; Prince of Xiangle, Xiang Guo; Prince of Shangluo, Si Zong; Zi Yuanhai; Di Sihao; Prince of Pingqin, Guiyan; Prince Pu of Wuxing; Changle, Governor of Lingshan; Sizi Fuhu · 4 passages

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廣平公盛陽州公永樂弟長弼襄樂王顯國上洛王思宗子元海弟思好平秦王歸彥武興王普長樂太守靈山嗣子伏護 Duke Sheng of Guangping; Duke Yongle of Yangzhou; younger brother Changbi; Prince Xianguo of Xiangle; Prince Sizong of Shangluo; son Yuanhai; younger brother Sihao; Prince Guiyan of Pingqin; Prince Pu of Wuxing; Lingshan, Governor of Changle; successor son Fuhu

子懿，卒於武平鎮將，無子，文宣帝以靈山從父兄齊州刺史建國子伏護為靈山後。 His son Yi died as commander of the Wuping garrison without heirs; Emperor Wenxuan appointed Fuhu — son of Jianguo, Governor of Qi Province and Lingshan's elder paternal cousin — to carry on Lingshan's line.

伏護，字臣援，粗有刀筆。 Fuhu, styled Chenyuan, had some modest skill with brush and ledger.

伏護歷事數朝，恒參機要，而性嗜酒，每多醉失，末路逾劇，乃至連日不食，事事酣酒，神識恍惚，遂以卒。 Fuhu served several reigns and always stood in the circle of confidential counsel, yet wine was his weakness; drunk, he often stumbled, and toward the end the failing worsened — days passed without a meal, every hour given to the cup until his mind grew dim and he died.