Lang Fanggui (郎方貴)

Overview

The translated histories identify Lang Fanggui as a family member, named individual, and official. This record brings together 7 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	Lang Fanggui	郎方貴	Láng Fāngguì
Given	Fanggui	方貴	Fanggui
Personal name	Lang Fanggui	郎方貴	Lang Fanggui

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · suishu:072:s0185
Value: male
Explicit · suishu:072:s0013

Roles

Family Member
Named Individual
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: Sui-period chapter context · Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 618
Explicit event contextual date · suishu:072:s0013
Source Date: Text: 開皇中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 600
Explicit · suishu:072:s0186, suishu:072:s0192

Family

Kin of Lang Shuanggui (郎雙貴)
Kinship Term: younger paternal cousin / 從父弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger
Kinship Term: younger paternal cousin / 從父弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder

Career and standing

Label: Chief Clerk of the prefecture / 州主簿 · Action: served
Explicit · suishu:072:s0192
Label: household gate honored and one hundred rolls of goods / 表其門閭，賜物百段 · Action: received
Explicit · suishu:072:s0192
Action: charged as principal offender and sentenced to death · Case: killing of the boatman
Explicit · suishu:072:s0189
Action: pardoned · Authority: emperor
Explicit · suishu:072:s0192

Places and affiliations

Place: Huainan / 淮南 · Relation: native-of
Explicit · suishu:072:s0184
Place: shared home with Lang Shuanggui / 同居 · Relation: co-resided-with · Other Person Id: Lang Shuanggui (郎雙貴)
Explicit · suishu:072:s0185

Learning and skills

Subject: classical learning / 稽古之學 · Level: lacked
Explicit · suishu:072:s0013

Events and relationships

Kind: assault · Role: victim · Action: a boatman beat him and broke his arm while he sought ferry passage during a flood
Explicit · suishu:072:s0186
Kind: self-sacrifice · Role: claimant · Action: contended with his cousin to bear the principal guilt and tried to drown himself
Explicit · suishu:072:s0190, suishu:072:s0191

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: deeply filial, diligent, loving, and indifferent to rank · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · suishu:072:s0014, suishu:072:s0015, suishu:072:s0016, suishu:072:s0017
Assessment: had high aspirations in youth · Provenance: Mode: historian-narrative
Explicit · suishu:072:s0185
Assessment: lacked towering talent but acted naturally and without pretense · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · suishu:072:s0013

References in the histories

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Book of Sui, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 37: Filial Piety · 7 passages

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田翼、郎方貴等，闕稽古之學，無俊偉之才，並能任其自然，情無矯飾。 Men such as Tian Yi and Lang Fanggui had no training in classical learning and no towering gifts, yet each could follow his inborn nature without artifice or pretense.

○郎方貴 Lang Fanggui

郎方貴，淮南人也。 Lang Fanggui was from Huainan.

開皇中，方貴嘗因出行遇雨，淮水泛長，於津所寄渡，船人怒之，撾方貴臂折。 During the Kaihuang era Fanggui was once caught in rain while traveling. The Huai rose in flood, and at a ferry he sought passage; the boatman in anger beat him until his arm was broken.

至家，其弟雙貴驚問所由，方貴具言之。 When he reached home his cousin Shuanggui asked in alarm what had happened, and Fanggui told him the whole story.

守津者執送之縣官，案問其狀，以方貴為首，當死，雙貴從坐，當流。 The ferry guards seized them and sent them to the county magistrate. After investigating, they found Fanggui the principal offender—liable to death—and Shuanggui an accomplice—liable to banishment.

州狀以聞，上聞而異之，特原其罪，表其門閭，賜物百段，後為州主簿。 The prefecture reported this to the throne. The emperor heard and was moved, specially pardoned their crimes, honored their household gate, and granted a hundred rolls of goods. Fanggui later served as chief clerk of the prefecture.