Gao Gu 高谷

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0251
• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · mingshi:169:s0248

Roles

• Official
• Scholar
• Statesman

Career and standing

• Label: Grand Academician of the Hall of Cultivating Virtue / 謹身殿大學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 七年 · Western Year: AD 1456
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0017
• Label: Junior Guardian and Grand Secretary of the Eastern Pavilion / 少保、東閣大學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二年 · Western Year: AD 1451
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0014
• Label: Minister / 尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 景泰初 · Western Year: AD 1450
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0002
• Label: Right Vice Minister of Works / 工部右侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 正統十年 · Western Year: AD 1445
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0255
• Label: Secretariat Drafter / 中書舍人 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永樂十三年 · Western Year: AD 1415
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0252
• Label: Grand Tutor of the Heir Apparent / 太子太傅 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0015
• Label: Grand Secretariat / 內閣 · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 正統十年 · Western Year: AD 1445
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0255
• Label: Grand Guardian / 太保 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 成化初 · Western Year: AD 1465
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0035
• Status: retirement · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 英宗復位 · Western Year: AD 1457
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0027

Places and affiliations

• Label: Ming / 明 · Relation: served
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0252
• Place: Xinghua in Yangzhou / 揚州興化
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0251
• Place: Yingtian and Fengyang / 應天、鳳陽 · Relation: posted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 景泰 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1450 · End: AD 1456
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0016

Learning and skills

• Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永樂十三年 · Western Year: AD 1415
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0252

Works and attributed material

• Kind: memorial · Role: author
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0012
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0004, mingshi:169:s0007, mingshi:169:s0008, mingshi:169:s0011, mingshi:169:s0024, mingshi:169:s0025

Events and relationships

• Kind: ritual · Role: advocate · Action: earnest over welcome rites for the emperor · Label: earnest over welcome rites / 惓惓於迎駕之儀 · Other Person Ids: Hu Ying (胡濙) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 當英、景之間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1449 · End: AD 1457
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0250, mingshi:169:s0249
• Kind: legal · Role: advocate · Action: saved Lin Cong from death · Other Person Id: Lin Cong (林聰)
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0022
• Kind: political · Role: advocate · Action: urged lavish welcome for Yingzong · Other Person Id: Gong Suirong (龔遂榮)
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0003, mingshi:169:s0004, mingshi:169:s0012
• Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Wang Zhi (王直)
  Strongly inferred · mingshi:169:s0248, mingshi:169:s0250
• Relation: recommender-of · Person Id: Wang Wen (王文)
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0020
• Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Wang Wen (王文)
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0020
• Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Hu Ying (胡濙)
  Strongly inferred · mingshi:169:s0248, mingshi:169:s0250

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: held to correct positions and kept one principle to the end; true elder of the state · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0250
• Assessment: man of standing / elder · Provenance: Mode: named-speech · Speaker Person Id: Emperor Yingzong (英宗)
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0028
• Assessment: purity and uprightness; stature of a great minister · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0248
• Assessment: upright and steadfast in argument · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · mingshi:169:s0019