Guo Zhongshu (郭忠恕)

Overview

The translated histories identify Guo Zhongshu as a calligrapher, official, and scholar. This record brings together 5 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	Guo Zhongshu	郭忠恕	Guō Zhōngshù
Personal name	Guo Zhongshu	郭忠恕	Guō Zhōngshù
Personal name	Zhongshu	忠恕	Zhōngshù

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:105:s0066

Roles

Calligrapher
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾祐中 · Western Year: AD 949
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:105:s0068
Source Date: Text: 乾祐至廣順 · Western Interval: Start: AD 948 · End: AD 951
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:105:s0069, jiuwudaishi:105:s0074

Career and standing

Label: investigating officer / 推官 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:105:s0068
Label: removed from office and exiled / 除名配流 · Action: exiled
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:105:s0074

Learning and skills

Credential: passed child examination at age seven / 七歲童子及第 · Action: earned
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:105:s0066
Skill: seal and clerical script / 篆隸 · Level: especially-skilled
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:105:s0066

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Feng Dao (馮道)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:105:s0071

Events and relationships

Kind: scholarly · Role: reader · Action: recited-bird-track-seal-script · Place: Long Mountain / 龍山
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:105:s0067
Kind: political · Role: adviser · Action: urged-killing-Feng-Dao-and-fleeing · Other Person Id: Liu Yun (劉赟)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:105:s0073
Relation: client-of · Person Id: Liu Yun (劉赟)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:105:s0068

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: grew reckless in later years and thereby ruined · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Supplement to the History of the Five Dynasties / 五代史補
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:105:s0074

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 105Volume 105 Book of Later Jin 7: Biographies 2: Imperial Family · 5 passages

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《五代史補》：郭忠恕，七歲童子及第，富有文學，尤工篆隸。《Supplement to the History of the Five Dynasties》: Guo Zhongshu passed the child-examination at seven, was deeply learned, and excelled at seal and clerical script.

嘗有人於龍山得鳥跡篆，忠恕一見，輒誦如宿習。 Someone once found bird-track seal script on Long Mountain; Zhongshu read it at a glance as though he had studied it for years.

忠恕知事變，乃正色責道曰：「令公累朝大臣，誠信著於天下，四方談士，無賢不肖皆以為長者，今一旦返作脫空漢，前功業並棄，令公之心安乎？」 Zhongshu saw how matters stood and rebuked Dao to his face: "You are a minister of many reigns, trusted throughout the realm; scholars everywhere, worthy or not, call you an elder—yet in a morning you become a hollow fraud and throw away a lifetime's standing—can your conscience be at ease?"

忠恕因勸湘陰公殺道以奔河東，公猶豫未決，遂及於禍。 Zhongshu then urged the duke to kill Dao and flee to Hedong; the duke wavered, and disaster followed.

忠恕竄跡久之，晚年尤好輕忽，卒以此敗，坐除名配流焉。）〉 Zhongshu hid for years; in old age he grew especially reckless and finally fell because of it, stripped of rank and exiled.) End of editorial note.)〉