Sui and Tang · Family Member

Jing Xiangzi 敬氏像子

Attested AD 618 - AD 649

Passages: 9
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Jing Xiangzi was a Family Member.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal name	Jing Shi	敬氏	Jing Shi

Life and dates

Death

Refused food after wailing · Cause Grief after deaths of mother, husband, and son
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 87

Age

15
Reckoning Sui · Context at marriage
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 68

Attested activity

AD 618 to AD 649 唐初忠義列傳（武德至太宗間記事）
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 67

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Fan Huiren (樊會仁)
bore 生
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 68
Sibling of Elder brother of Jing Shi (像子兄)
elder brother 兄 · Full siblings
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 69
Kin of Father-in-law of Jing Shi (敬氏舅)
father-in-law 舅
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 68
Spouse of Husband of Jing Shi (敬氏夫)
married 適 · Marriage · Widowed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 68
Kin of Mother-in-law of Jing Shi (敬氏姑)
mother-in-law 姑
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 68
Child of Mother of Jing Shi (像子母)
mother 母
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 69
Kin of Sister-in-law of Jing Shi (像子嫂)
sister-in-law 嫂
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 74

Kinship Role sisters-in-law · Quantity unspecified
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 68

Career and standing

Entered
Widow
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 68

Places and affiliations

At Hedong in Pu Prefecture 蒲州河東
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 67
Organization Fan clan 樊氏 · Relation Married into
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 68

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · With Fan Huiren (樊會仁)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passages 75-77, 79-81
Speech · Speaker
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 86

Events and relationships

Fled home with son
Travel · Self · With Fan Huiren (樊會仁)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 82
Pretended not to notice deception
Personal · Self
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 73
Swore to die rather than return
Personal · Self
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 84
Wailed and starved to death
Personal · Self
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 87
Wept in grief at remarriage pressure
Personal · Self
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 70

Assessments and attributes

Assessment known for careful, compliant service to parents-in-law and sisters-in-law · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 68

Source notes

swore to share a grave with her husband
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 75

References in the histories

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History

9 passages

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 193Volume 187 Biographies 137: Loyal and Righteous 1 · 9 passages

樊會仁母敬氏，字像子，蒲州河東人也。 Jing Shi, mother of Fan Huiren, was styled Xiangzi and was a native of Hedong in Pu Prefecture.

像子既至，省母無疾，鄰家復具肴善，像子知為所欺，佯為不悟者。 When Xiangzi arrived and found her mother was not ill, the neighbors had laid out a feast; realizing she had been tricked, she pretended not to notice.

其嫂復請像子沐浴。 Her sister-in-law then asked her to bathe.

像子私謂會仁曰：「吾不幸孀居，誓與汝父同穴。 Xiangzi privately told Huiren, "I am unfortunate to be a widow and have sworn to share a grave with your father.

像子撫之曰：「汝勿啼。 Xiangzi comforted him and said, "Do not cry.

會仁便佯睡，像子於是伺隙攜之遁歸。 Huiren then pretended to sleep; Xiangzi seized her chance, took him, and fled home.

像子誓以必死，辭情甚切，其兄感嘆而止。 Xiangzi swore she would die rather than submit; her words were so earnest that her brother sighed in admiration and let them go.

後會仁年十八病卒，時像子母已終。 Later, when Huiren was eighteen, he died of illness; by then Xiangzi's mother had already died.

既葬，像子謂其所親曰：「吾老母不幸，又夫死子亡，義無久活。」 After the funeral she told her intimates, "My mother met a sad end, and now my husband is dead and my son is gone—I have no right to go on living."