Yuan · Exemplary wife of Meng Zhigang

Lady Yi 衣氏

Yi shi

Attested AD 1271 - AD 1368

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Lady Yi was an Exemplary wife of Meng Zhigang.

Life and dates

Death

Cut her own throat · Intention share coffin and grave with husband
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 41

Attested activity

AD 1271 to AD 1368 Yuan-dynasty setting of Yuanshi exemplary-women chapter
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 201, passage 36

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Spouse of Meng Zhigang (孟志剛)
wife 妻
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 36

Career and standing

Poor
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 37

Places and affiliations

Polity Id yuan · Relation Subject of
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 201, passage 36

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Addressee carpenter · Units s0038 · Mode quotation Speaker Lady Yi (衣氏)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 38
Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Units s0040 · Mode quotation Speaker Lady Yi (衣氏)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 40

Events and relationships

Authorities supplied coffin wood
Funeral · Widow
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 37
Prepared chicken and millet offering and gave away household goods
Ritual · Sacrificer · With Old Woman Wang (王媼)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 40
Relation Coresident with · Person Old Woman Wang (王媼)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 40

Assessments and attributes

Item coffin 棺 · Relation Shared in suicide
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passages 38, 40-41

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 36

References in the histories

History of Yuan, Chapter 201Volume 201 Biographies 88: Exemplary Women 2 · 3 passages

衣氏，汴梁儒士孟志剛妻。 Lady Yi was the wife of Meng Zhigang, a scholar of Bianliang.

衣氏紿匠者曰：「可寬大其棺，吾夫有遺衣服，欲盡置其中。」 Lady Yi told the carpenter, "Make the coffin larger. My husband left clothes that I want to place inside with him."

是夕，衣氏具雞黍祭其夫，家之所有悉散之鄰里及同居王媼，曰：「吾聞一馬不被兩鞍，吾夫既死，與之同棺共穴可也。」 That night she prepared a meal to honor her husband and gave away everything they owned to the neighbors and to Old Woman Wang, who lived with them, saying, "They say one horse cannot bear two saddles. Now that my husband is dead, it is right that we share one coffin and one grave."