Lu Gong 魯恭

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · houhanshu:028:s0278
• Sex: male
  Explicit · houhanshu:117:s0176
• Value: male
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0061

Roles

• Official
• Scholar

Family

• Descendant of Lu Kuang (匡)
  Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖父 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Mou, Father of Lu Gong (某)
• Descendant of Duke Qing of Lu (魯頃公)
  Kinship Term: ancestor / 先 · Line: paternal
• Parent of Lu Qian (謙)
  Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 1
• Child of Mou, Father of Lu Gong (某)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Child of Mother of Lu Gong (魯恭之母)
  Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
• Parent of Lu Fu (撫)
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Sibling of Lu Pi (魯丕)
  Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder

• Kinship Role: sons · Count: 2
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0187

Origins and identity

• Ancestor Person Id: Duke Qing of Lu (魯頃公) · Statement: the family descended from Duke Qing of Lu, moved to Xiayi after Chu destroyed Lu, and took Lu as its clan name
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0062

Career and standing

• Label: teacher at Xinfeng / 新豐教授
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0071
• Label: Commandant of Changle / 長樂衛尉 · Action: appointed · Authority Person Id: Emperor Shang (殤帝) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 殤帝即位 · Western Year: AD 106
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0300
• Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永元九年八月 · Regnal Year: 9 · Lunar Month: 8 · Western Year: AD 97
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0292, houhanshu:028:s0293
• Label: Erudite of the Lu Odes / 《魯詩》博士 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0132
• Label: magistrate of Zhongmou / 中牟令 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0075
• Label: Palace Assistant Clerk / 侍御史 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0097
• Label: commandery clerk / 郡吏 · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建初初 · Western Year: AD 76
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0072
• Label: Household Minister / 光祿勛 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永元九年冬 · Regnal Year: 9 · Season: winter · Western Year: AD 97
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0294
• Label: chancellor of Lean / 樂安相 · Action: promoted
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0134
• Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: promoted
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0133
• Label: magistrate of Zhongmou / 中牟令 · Action: resigned-for-mourning
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0096
• Label: Minister of Education / 司徒 · Action: succeeded-predecessor · Predecessor Person Id: Liang Wei (梁鮪) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永初元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 107
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0301
• Label: Minister of Education / 司徒 · Action: succeeded-predecessor · Predecessor Person Id: Lü Gai (呂蓋) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永元十三年 · Regnal Year: 13 · Western Year: AD 101
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0295
• Label: Consultant / 議郎 · Action: summoned-and-appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永元九年 · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 97
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0291
• Action: ordered to ride in attendance and warmly commended
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0293
• Action: received repeated audiences, consultation, rewards, and special favor
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0133
• Status: retirement for old age and illness · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永初三年 · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 109
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0185
• Status: dismissed by edict for an offense · Action: entered
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0299
• Status: declined seasonal gifts from Zhao Xi · Action: refused
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0069
• Status: memorial against Xiongnu campaign rejected · Action: rejected
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0130
• Status: deferred his own career so Lu Pi could establish his reputation · Action: withdrew · Other Person Id: Lu Pi (魯丕)
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0070

Places and affiliations

• Label: Eastern Han / 後漢 · Relation: served
  Strongly inferred · houhanshu:028:s0278
• Place: Pingling in Fufeng / 扶風平陵 · Relation: native-of
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0061
• Place: Xiayi / 下邑 · Relation: ancestral-migration-to
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0062
• Organization: Lu Odes scholarly tradition / 《魯詩》家法 · Relation: teacher-of
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0132

Learning and skills

• Subject: Lu Odes / 《魯詩》 · Action: studied-and-taught · Organization: Imperial Academy / 太學
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0068
• Credential: forthright counsel / 直言 · Action: recommended · Recommender Person Id: Zhao Xi (趙憙)
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0075

Works and attributed material

• Work: Biography of Lu Gong / 鲁恭传 · Relation: subject-of
  Explicit · houhanshu:117:s0176
• Kind: memorial · Role: author · Addressee Person Id: Emperor He (和帝) · Statement: opposed the Xiongnu campaign · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 和帝初立 · Western Year: AD 89
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0098, houhanshu:028:s0099, houhanshu:028:s0100, houhanshu:028:s0101, houhanshu:028:s0102, houhanshu:028:s0103, houhanshu:028:s0104, houhanshu:028:s0105, houhanshu:028:s0106, houhanshu:028:s0107, houhanshu:028:s0108, houhanshu:028:s0109, houhanshu:028:s0110, houhanshu:028:s0111, houhanshu:028:s0112, houhanshu:028:s0113, houhanshu:028:s0114, houhanshu:028:s0115, houhanshu:028:s0116, houhanshu:028:s0117, houhanshu:028:s0118, houhanshu:028:s0119, houhanshu:028:s0120, houhanshu:028:s0121, houhanshu:028:s0122, houhanshu:028:s0123, houhanshu:028:s0124, houhanshu:028:s0125, houhanshu:028:s0126, houhanshu:028:s0127, houhanshu:028:s0128, houhanshu:028:s0129
• Kind: court-opinion · Role: author · Addressee Person Id: Empress Dowager Deng (鄧太后) · Statement: argued for seasonal limits and review of doubtful capital cases
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0158, houhanshu:028:s0159, houhanshu:028:s0160, houhanshu:028:s0161, houhanshu:028:s0162, houhanshu:028:s0163, houhanshu:028:s0164, houhanshu:028:s0165, houhanshu:028:s0166, houhanshu:028:s0167, houhanshu:028:s0168, houhanshu:028:s0169, houhanshu:028:s0170, houhanshu:028:s0171, houhanshu:028:s0172, houhanshu:028:s0173, houhanshu:028:s0174, houhanshu:028:s0175, houhanshu:028:s0176, houhanshu:028:s0177
• Kind: memorial · Role: author · Statement: urged that trials and investigations wait until Autumn Begins
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0138, houhanshu:028:s0139, houhanshu:028:s0140, houhanshu:028:s0141, houhanshu:028:s0142, houhanshu:028:s0143, houhanshu:028:s0144, houhanshu:028:s0145, houhanshu:028:s0146, houhanshu:028:s0147, houhanshu:028:s0148, houhanshu:028:s0149, houhanshu:028:s0150, houhanshu:028:s0151, houhanshu:028:s0152, houhanshu:028:s0153, houhanshu:028:s0154, houhanshu:028:s0155, houhanshu:028:s0156
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Statement: lamented that moral transformation had failed
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0079
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Statement: said his concern was untaught learning, while students still had local recommendation
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0181, houhanshu:028:s0182, houhanshu:028:s0183

Events and relationships

• Kind: imperial-tour · Role: attendant · Action: accompanied the imperial tour to Nanyang · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永元十五年 · Regnal Year: 15 · Western Year: AD 103
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0296
• Kind: omen · Role: beneficiary · Action: auspicious grain grew in his office courtyard
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0094
• Kind: pacification · Role: chancellor · Action: induced Zhang Han's surrender and pacified the remaining bandits · Other Person Id: Zhang Han (張漢)
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0136
• Kind: scholarly-debate · Role: participant · Action: joined the White Tiger Hall debates · Authority Person Id: Emperor Zhang (孝章皇帝) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 白虎觀議奏 · Western Year: c. AD 79
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0074
• Kind: mourning · Role: son · Action: mourned their father intensely and refused funeral gifts
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0067
• Kind: legal-reform · Role: policy author · Action: proposal was eventually implemented
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0158, houhanshu:028:s0178
• Kind: legal · Role: adjudicator · Action: resolved Xu Bo's land dispute through moral suasion · Other Person Id: Xu Bo (許伯)
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0076
• Kind: legal · Role: magistrate · Action: secured return of a borrowed ox and pardoned the pavilion chief
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0077, houhanshu:028:s0078, houhanshu:028:s0079, houhanshu:028:s0080, houhanshu:028:s0081, houhanshu:028:s0082
• Kind: official-selection · Role: recommender · Action: selected dozens who rose to high ministerial or grand-administrator rank
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0179, houhanshu:028:s0180
• Kind: omen · Role: magistrate · Action: Zhongmou was spared crop pests · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建初七年 · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 82
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0083
• Relation: recommender-of · Person Id: Wang Fang (王方)
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0095

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: earnest and sincere; emotion sincere, virtue full; benevolence touched insects and embryos · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0278, houhanshu:028:s0279
• Assessment: fair in nominations and unmoved by powerful capital families · Provenance: Mode: narrator-assessment
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0294
• Assessment: humble and yielding; grounded proposals in the classics and benefited policy without self-promotion · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0184
• Assessment: praised by Confucian scholars; students flocked to study with him · Provenance: Mode: contemporary-reputation
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0068
• Kind: political-conduct · Statement: spoke plainly whenever policy could benefit the people
  Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0131