Lady Guo (郭氏) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Lady Guo as a family member. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese
Personal	Lady Guo	郭氏
Descriptive kinship	birth mother of Xie Jiao	所生母郭氏
Clan	Lady Guo	郭氏

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 元嘉三年 retrospective context · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 426
Explicit event contextual date · songshu:056:s0036, songshu:056:s0042

Family

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Parent of Xie Jiao (謝㬭)
Kinship Term: birth mother / 所生母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Status: chronic illness · Duration: more than ten years
Explicit · songshu:056:s0036, songshu:056:s0038

References in the histories

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Book of Song, Chapter 56Volume 56 Biographies 16: Xie Zhan, Kong Linzhi · 2 passages

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年數歲，所生母郭氏，久嬰痼疾，晨昏溫清，嘗藥捧膳，不闕一時，勤容戚顏，未嘗暫改。 While still a small boy, he cared for his birth mother of the Guo clan, who had long suffered a chronic illness. Morning and evening he saw to her comfort, tasted her medicine, and brought her food without missing a single hour; his devoted manner and sorrowful face never changed, even for a moment.

母為病畏驚，微踐過甚，一家尊卑，感㬭至性，鹹納屢而行，屏氣而語，如此者十餘年。 Because his mother feared being startled by noise in her illness, even the lightest footfall was too much; moved by Jiao's devotion, everyone in the household, high and low alike, removed their shoes and walked on tiptoe, speaking only in hushed breaths—for more than ten years.