Sui and Tang · Exemplary Woman

Lady Pei 裴氏

Pei

Attested AD 765 - AD 767

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Lady Pei was an Exemplary Woman.

Life and dates

Death

Dismembered by bandits · Cause Refused defilement
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 218

Attested activity

AD 765 to AD 767 頃因寇難
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 203, passages 214, 218

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Jujing (巨卿)
daughter 女
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 214
Spouse of Wang Fan (王泛)
wife 妻
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 214

Career and standing

Lady of Hedong County 河東縣君
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 225
entered in the historical records 編入史冊
Granted
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 225

Works and attributed material

Edict · Subject · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passages 220-225
Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 216

Events and relationships

Captured by bandits
Captivity · Captive
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 215
Dismembered
Death · Victim · Outcome Died unyielding
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 218
Resisted bandits
Resistance · Resister
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 217

Assessments and attributes

Assessment constancy vowing to follow husband in death · Mode edict
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 223
Assessment renowned for grace and bearing · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 215

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 214

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 203Volume 193 Biographies 143: Exemplary Women · 6 passages

又有尉氏尉王泛妻裴氏，儀王傅巨卿之女也。 There was also the wife of Wang Fan, Assistant Magistrate of Weishi, Lady Pei, daughter of Jujing, Tutor to the Prince of Yi.

裴曰：「吾衣冠之子，當死即死，終不茍全一命，受汙於賊。」 Lady Pei said, "I am a daughter of the gentry; when I must die, I shall die—I will never cling to life in shame and suffer defilement at the hands of bandits."

賊脅之以兵，逼之以罵，裴堅力抗之。 The bandits threatened her with weapons and cursed her; Lady Pei resisted with all her strength.

賊怒，乃支解裴氏，至死不屈。 Enraged, the bandits dismembered Lady Pei; she did not yield even unto death.

詔曰：「鄭州原武縣尉盧甫亡妻李氏、汴州尉氏縣尉王泛亡妻裴氏等，懿範傳家，柔明植性； An edict stated, "The late wife of Lu Fu, Assistant Magistrate of Yuanwu in Zheng Prefecture, née Li, and the late wife of Wang Fan, Assistant Magistrate of Weishi in Bian Prefecture, née Pei, among others—exemplary virtue ran in their families, gentle clarity rooted in their nature;

李氏可贈孝昌縣君，裴氏可贈河東縣君，仍編入史冊。」 Lady Li shall be posthumously enfeoffed as Lady of Xiaochang County, Lady Pei as Lady of Hedong County, and both shall be entered in the historical records."