Yuan · Imperial Medical Administrator and History Officer

Jia Lu 賈魯

Jiǎ Lǔ

Attested AD 1343 - AD 1351

Passages
17
Chapters
2
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Jia Lu as an administrator, editor, engineer, and historian. This record brings together 17 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

PeriodYuan

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Jia Lu 賈魯 Jiǎ Lǔ
Title Commissioner General for Yellow River Control 總治河防使
Title Commissioner of Waterworks 都水使者
Title Director of Transport 都漕運使
Title Grand Academician of the Hall of Gathered Worthies 集賢大學士
Title Grand Master for Glorious Emolument 榮祿大夫
Surname Jia 賈 Jiǎ
Personal name Jia Lu 賈魯 Jiǎ Lǔ
Personal name Jia Lu 賈魯 Jia Lu
Given name Lu 魯 Lǔ
Title Minister of Works 工部尚書
Personal name 魯 Lu

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Editor
  • Engineer
  • Historian
  • Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Career and standing

  • Label: Minister of Works and Commissioner General for Yellow River Control / 工部尚書為總治河防使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:066:s0013
  • Label: Chief Administrator of the Imperial Medical Institute / 太醫院都事 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 領史事…彙粹為書 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1343 · End: AD 1345
    Explicit · songshi:497:s0021
  • Label: chief officer of Shandong pacification commission / 山東道奉使宣撫首領官 · Action: held
    Explicit · yuanshi:066:s0008
  • Label: Commissioner of Waterworks / 都水使者 · Action: held
    Explicit · yuanshi:066:s0009
  • Label: Director of Transport / 都漕運使 · Action: held
    Explicit · yuanshi:066:s0007
  • Label: Grand Academician of the Hall of Gathered Worthies / 集賢大學士 · Action: promoted
    Explicit · yuanshi:066:s0017
  • Label: Grand Master for Glorious Emolument / 榮祿大夫 · Action: promoted
    Explicit · yuanshi:066:s0017
  • Status: second-rank · Action: promoted
    Explicit · yuanshi:066:s0013

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: blamed by critics for causing disorder through the river project · Provenance: Mode: hearsay
    Explicit · yuanshi:066:s0144
  • Assessment: exhausted ingenuity and courage to repay recognition by ruler and chancellor · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Ouyang Xuan (歐陽玄)
    Explicit · yuanshi:066:s0140
  • Assessment: truly understood river work · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · yuanshi:066:s0137
  • Item: silver seal / 銀印 · Relation: bestowed
    Explicit · yuanshi:066:s0013

References in the histories

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History of Song, Chapter 497Volume 497: Appendix: History of Song Table Revision of Official Titles · 1 passage
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命臣阿魯圖、左丞相臣別兒怯不花領史事，前右丞相臣脫脫為都總裁，平章政事臣帖穆爾達世、御史大夫臣惟一、翰林學士承旨臣起巖、臣玄、治書御史臣好文、禮部尚書臣沂、崇文大監臣宗瑞為總裁官，平章政事臣納麟、臣顏、前中書右丞 臣達世睦邇、左丞 臣守簡、參議 臣岳柱、臣住、臣思謙、郎中 臣斡欒、臣思立等協恭董治，史官工部侍郎 臣斡玉倫徒，秘書卿 臣泰不華、太常僉院 臣杜秉彝、翰林直學士 臣宋褧，國子司業 臣王思誠、臣澤民、集賢待制 臣干文傳、翰林待制 臣張瑾、臣師道、宣文閣鑒書博士 臣麥文貴、監察御史 臣余闕、太常博士 臣李齊、翰林修撰 臣劉聞、太醫院都事 臣賈魯、國子助教 臣馮福可、太廟署令 臣陳祖仁、西臺御史 臣趙中、翰林應奉 臣王儀、臣貞、秘書著作左郎 臣譚慥、翰林編修 臣張翥、國子助教 臣吳當、經筵檢討 臣危素編劘分局，彙粹為書。 Your Majesty appointed Aruqtai and Left Chancellor Bayan Qutlugh to direct the history project, with former Right Chancellor Toqto'a as chief director-in-chief, and Chief Directors including Chief Councillors Temür Dash, Censor-in-Chief Weiyi, Hanlin Academicians Expositor Qiyan and Xuan, Investigating Censor Haowen, Minister of Rites Yi, and Director of the Directorate of Education Zongrui; together with Chief Councillors Nalin and Yan, former Right Vice Director of the Central Secretariat Dashimur, Left Vice Director Shoujian, Counsellors Yuezhu, Zhu, and Siqian, Bureau Directors Olon and Sili, and others to assist in reverent supervision; and history officers including Vice Minister of Works Oluntur, Secretary Director Taibuhua, Vice Director of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices Du Bingyi, Hanlin Academician Song Jiong, Rectors of the Directorate of Education Wang Sicheng and Zemin, Awaiting Editor-in-Chief of the Hall of Gathered Worthies Gan Wenchuan, Hanlin Awaiting Editors Zhang Jin and Shidao, Doctor of the Xuanwen Pavilion Mai Wengui, Investigating Censor Yu Que, Doctor of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices Li Qi, Hanlin Compiler Liu Wen, Chief Administrator of the Imperial Medical Institute Jia Lu, Instructors of the Directorate of Education Feng Fuke, Director of the Imperial Ancestral Temple Office Chen Zuren, Western Censor Zhao Zhong, Hanlin Attendants Wang Yi and Zhen, Left Secretary Compiler Tan Zao, Hanlin Compiler Zhang Zhu, Instructor of the Directorate of Education Wu Dang, and Classics Lectures Reviewer Wei Su to edit in separate bureaus and gather the whole into a book.
History of Yuan, Chapter 66Volume 66 Treatises 19: Rivers and Canals 3 · 16 passages
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帝遣貴臣報祭河伯，召魯還京師，論功超拜榮祿大夫、集賢大學士，其宣力諸臣遷賞有差，賜丞相脫脫世襲答剌罕之號，特命翰林學士承旨歐陽玄制河平碑文，以旌勞績。 The emperor sent high officials to report the sacrifice to the River Lord and summoned Jia Lu back to the capital. For his service Jia Lu was promoted beyond the usual grades to Grand Master for Glorious Emolument and Grand Academician of the Hall of Gathered Worthies; other officials who had labored on the project received promotions and rewards in varying measure; Chancellor Toghto was granted the hereditary title of Darqan; and Hanlin Academician Ouyang Xuan was commissioned to compose the Stele on Pacifying the River, to commemorate the achievement.
玄既為河平之碑，又自以為司馬遷、班固記河渠溝洫，僅載治水之道，不言其方，使後世任斯事者無所考則，乃從魯訪問方略，及詢過客，質吏牘，作《至正河防記》，欲使來世罹河患者按而求之。 After composing the pacification stele, Ouyang Xuan reflected that Sima Qian and Ban Gu, in their treatises on rivers and canals, recorded only general principles of water control, not the practical methods—leaving later engineers nothing concrete to follow. He therefore interviewed Jia Lu about his methods, questioned travelers who had witnessed the work, checked official records, and wrote the Record of Zhizheng River Control so that future generations facing river disasters might find actionable guidance within it.