Gongsun Sengyuan (公孫僧遠)

Overview

The translated histories identify Gongsun Sengyuan as a named individual. 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	Gongsun Sengyuan	公孫僧遠	Gōngsūn Sēngyuǎn

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · nanqishu:055:s0002

Roles

Named Individual

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 建元三年 · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 481
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Family

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Kin of Paternal Uncle of Gongsun Sengyuan (僧遠伯父)
Kinship Term: father’s elder brother / 伯父 · Line: paternal · Generation Distance: 1
Sibling of Elder Brother of Gongsun Sengyuan (僧遠兄)
Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Relative Age: younger
Sibling of Sister of Gongsun Sengyuan (僧遠姊)
Kinship Term: elder sister / 姊 · Subject Relative Age: younger
Child of Father of Gongsun Sengyuan (僧遠父)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Child of Mother of Gongsun Sengyuan (僧遠母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological
Sibling of Younger Brother of Gongsun Sengyuan (僧遠弟)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder

Places and affiliations

Place: Shan, Kuaiji · Relation: native-of
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Events and relationships

Kind: biographical · Role: participant · Action: indentured himself to fund his younger brother’s burial
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Kind: biographical · Role: participant · Action: reduced his own food to support his mother and paternal uncle during famine
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Kind: biographical · Role: participant · Action: sold himself to fund the marriages of his elder brother and sister
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References in the histories

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Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 55Volume 55 Biographies 36: Filial Piety · 4 passages

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崔懷慎公孫僧遠吳欣之韓係伯孫淡華寶韓靈敏封延伯吳達之王文殊朱謙之蕭叡明樂頤江泌杜栖陸絳 Cui Huaishen, Gongsun Sengyuan, Wu Xinzhi, Han Xibo, Sun Dan, Hua Bao, Han Lingmin, Feng Yanbo, Wu Dazhi, Wang Wenshu, Zhu Qianzhi, Xiao Ruiming, Le Yi, Jiang Bi, Du Qi, and Lu Jiang

公孫僧遠，會稽剡人也。 Gongsun Sengyuan was from Shan county in Kuaiji.

治父喪至孝，事母及伯父甚謹，年饑穀貴，僧遠省餐減食，以供母、伯。 He was deeply filial in mourning his father and scrupulous in caring for his mother and uncle. In famine years, when grain was costly, he ate less himself so that they might have enough.

太祖即位，遣兼散騎常侍虞炎等十二部使行天下，建元三年，表列僧遠等二十三人，詔竝表門閭，蠲租稅。 When Emperor Gao took the throne he sent twelve missions, led by Yu Yan, Acting Regular Attendant of Scattered Cavalry, to tour the empire. In the third year of Jianyuan, memorials named Sengyuan and twenty-two others; an edict ordered commemorative placards erected at their gates and their rents and taxes remitted.