Lady Fang (房氏) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Lady Fang as a consort. This record brings together 14 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	Lady Fang	房氏	Fáng Shì
Clan	Lady Fang	房氏	Fáng Shì

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · weishu:098:s0001

Roles

Consort

Life and dates

Death

Age Years: 65
Explicit · weishu:098:s0082

Age

Years: 65 · Reckoning: age at death
Explicit · weishu:098:s0082
Years: 16 · Reckoning: stated
Explicit · weishu:098:s0058

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 魏世 · Western Interval: Start: AD 386 · End: AD 534
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:098:s0001

Family

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Child of Fang Kan (房堪)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
Child of Mother of Lady Fang (房氏之母)
Kinship Term: parents / 父母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: daughter
Parent of Wei Ji (魏緝)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Spouse of Wei Pu (魏溥)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband · Relationship State: widowed

Kinship Role: brothers · Quantity: unspecified plural
Explicit · weishu:098:s0074, weishu:098:s0076

Works and attributed material

Kind: funeral declaration · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Wei Pu (魏溥) · Quoted: true · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Source Person Id: Lady Fang (房氏)
Explicit · weishu:098:s0066
Kind: reply · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Lady Liu, mother of Wei Pu (劉氏) · Quoted: true · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Source Person Id: Lady Fang (房氏)
Explicit · weishu:098:s0069
Kind: reply · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Wei Pu (魏溥) · Quoted: true · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Source Person Id: Lady Fang (房氏)
Explicit · weishu:098:s0062, weishu:098:s0063, weishu:098:s0064

Events and relationships

Kind: mourning · Action: cut off her left ear and cast it into Wei Pu’s coffin as a pledge · Other Person Id: Wei Pu (魏溥) · Item: left ear and knife / 左耳、刀
Explicit · weishu:098:s0066
Kind: travel · Action: left a natal visit when she learned her father and brothers doubted her resolve
Explicit · weishu:098:s0073, weishu:098:s0074, weishu:098:s0075, weishu:098:s0076
Kind: child-rearing · Action: reared Wei Ji in seclusion and trained him strictly · Other Person Id: Wei Ji (魏緝)
Explicit · weishu:098:s0071, weishu:098:s0072, weishu:098:s0078, weishu:098:s0079, weishu:098:s0080, weishu:098:s0081
Kind: marriage · Action: was widowed at age sixteen when Wei Pu became mortally ill · Other Person Id: Wei Pu (魏溥)
Explicit · weishu:098:s0058, weishu:098:s0065

Source notes

Field: quoted wording · Statement: 北史 adds 早寡 after 不幸; the collation does not supplement it
Textual variant · weishu:098:s0238
Field: quoted wording · Statement: 北史 reads 黃壚 for 黃墟 in Wei Pu’s deathbed speech
Textual variant · weishu:098:s0234, weishu:098:s0235, weishu:098:s0236

References in the histories

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Book of Wei, Chapter 98Volume 92: Notable Women: Cui Lan's Consort Feng, Feng Zhuo's Consort Liu, Wei Pu's Consort Fang, Hu Changming's Consort Zhang · 14 passages

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崔覽妻封氏封卓妻劉氏魏溥妻房氏胡長命妻張氏平原女子孫氏房愛親妻崔氏涇州貞女兕先氏[1] 姚氏婦楊氏張洪初妻劉氏[2] 董景起妻張氏陽尼妻高氏史映周妻耿氏任城國太妃孟氏苟金龍妻劉氏盧元禮妻李氏河東孝女姚氏刁思遵妻魯氏 Lady Feng, consort of Cui Lan; Lady Liu, consort of Feng Zhuo; Lady Fang, consort of Wei Pu; Lady Zhang, consort of Hu Changming; Sun Nanyu of Pingyuan; Lady Cui, consort of Fang Aiqin; the chaste woman Sixian of Jing Prefecture; Lady Yang of the Yao household; Lady Liu, consort of Zhang Hongchu; Lady Zhang, consort of Dong Jingqi; Lady Gao, consort of Yang Ni; Lady Geng, consort of Shi Yingzhou; Grand Consort Meng of Rencheng; Lady Liu, consort of Gou Jinlong; Lady Li, consort of Lu Yuanli; the filial daughter Yao of Hedong; Lady Lu, consort of Diao Sizun.

鉅鹿魏溥妻，常山房氏女也。 The consort of Wei Pu of Julu was a daughter of the Fang clan of Changshan.

房氏婉順高明，幼有烈操。 Lady Fang was gentle, compliant, and of lofty character; from childhood she possessed a resolute integrity.

[4]房垂泣而對曰：「幸承先人餘訓，出事君子，義在自畢。 [4] Fang wept as she answered: "I have been fortunate to receive my ancestors' teaching; having married a gentleman, my duty is to see it through to the end.

及大斂，房氏操刀割左耳，投之棺中，仍曰：「鬼神有知，相期泉壤。」 At the encoffinment, Lady Fang took a knife, cut off her left ear, and cast it into the coffin, saying: "If the spirits have knowledge, let us meet in the underworld."

姑劉氏輟哭而謂曰：「新婦何至於此！」 Her mother-in-law Lady Liu stopped weeping and said, "Daughter-in-law, how could you go so far!"

房對曰：「新婦少年不幸，[6]實慮父母未量至情，覬持此自誓耳。」 Fang answered, "Your daughter-in-law met misfortune young; [6] I feared my parents would not grasp the depth of my devotion and meant this act as a pledge to myself."

緝年十二，房父母仍存，於是歸寧。 When Ji was twelve and Fang's parents were still living, she made a visit home.

父兄尚有異議，緝竊聞之，以啟母。 Her father and brothers still had doubts about her resolve; Ji overheard them and told his mother.

房命駕紿云他行，因而遂歸，其家弗知之也。 Fang ordered the carriage prepared, pretended she was bound elsewhere, and returned home before her family realized what she had heard.

行數十里方覺，兄弟來追，房哀歎而不反。 After several tens of li her family realized what had happened and her brothers came in pursuit, but Fang wept and would not turn back.

金紫光祿大夫高閭為其文，序云：「祖母房年在弱笄，艱貞守志，秉恭妻之操，著自毀之誠。」 Grandee of the Golden Bell and Purple Radiance Gao Lu composed its inscription, writing in the preface: "Our grandmother Fang, still in her maiden years, bore hardship and held to her resolve, embodying the conduct of a devoted wife and the sincerity of her self-mutilation."

所以抱怨於黃墟耳北史卷九一魏溥妻房氏傳「墟」作「壚」。 "This is why I lodge my complaint in the yellow mound": in the biography of Wei Pu's wife Lady Fang in juan 91 of the History of the Northern Dynasties, "mound (xu)" appears as "barrow (lu)."

新婦少年不幸北史卷九一「不幸」下有「早寡」二字，疑此脫，但無亦通，今不補。 "Your daughter-in-law met misfortune young": juan 91 of the History of the Northern Dynasties adds "early widowhood" after "misfortune," possibly omitted here, but the text reads well without it—no supplementation is made.