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Gong was an official.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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- Literary exemplum · Negative retirement model · Mode quoted-document Speaker Yuan Shu (袁淑)
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Book of Song, Chapter 66Volume 66 Biographies 26: Wang Jinghong, He Shangzhi · 1 passage
二十九年，致仕，於方山著退居賦以明所守，而議者咸謂尚之不能固志，太子左衛率袁淑與尚之書曰：「昨遣修問，承丈人已晦志山田，雖曰年禮宜遵，亦事難斯貴，俾疎、班、邴、魏，通美於前策，龔、貢、山、衛，淪慚乎曩篇。
In the twenty-ninth year he retired and at Fang Mountain wrote a Rhapsody on Retirement to declare what he upheld, but commentators all said Shangzhi could not hold firm to his resolve. Yuan Shu, Left Commander of the Heir Apparent's Guard, wrote to him: "Yesterday I sent inquiry and learned that you, sir, have hidden your will in mountain fields. Though one says the rites of age should be followed, this is hard to esteem so highly. Shu, Ban, Bing, and Wei would then share excellence in former records; Gong, Gong, Shan, and Wei would sink in shame in past chapters.