Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Court Favorite and Official

Lü Wendu 呂文度

Attested AD 473 - AD 493

Passages: 8
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

The translated histories identify Lü Wendu as an artisan, courtier, and official. This record brings together 8 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Lü Wendu	呂文度	Lü Wendu
Surname	Lü	呂	Lü
Personal name	Lü Wendu	呂文度	Lü Wendu
Given	Wendu	文度	Wendu
Given name	Wendu	文度	Wendu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liangshu:052:s0042, nanqishu:056:s0152

Roles

Artisan
Courtier
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 元徽中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 473 · End: AD 477
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0154
Source Date: Text: 永明中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 483 · End: AD 493
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0160
Source Date: Text: 齊武帝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 483 · End: AD 493
Explicit · liangshu:052:s0042

Family

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Child of Mother of Lü Wendu
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother

Career and standing

Label: clerk in the fine-work gold and silver treasury; bamboo-frame craftsman / 細作金銀庫吏，竹局匠
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0153
Label: supervisor of the Equipment Bureau / 制局監 · Action: appointed
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0157
Status: wielded-great-power · Action: held
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0158

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liu-song · Relation: served
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0153
Place: Kuaiji / 會稽
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0152
Place: Shanyin / 山陰
Explicit · liangshu:052:s0042

Events and relationships

Relation: recommender-of · Person Id: Fei Yanzong (費延宗)
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0159

Source notes

Statement: Associated with Southern Qi (南齊); polity id not supplied in packet. · Label: Southern Qi / 南齊
Explicit · nanqishu:056:s0157

References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 52Volume 52: The Self-Sufficient · 3 passages

山陰人呂文度有寵於齊武帝，於餘姚立邸，頗縱橫。 Lü Wendu of Shanyin had favor with Qi Wudi and established a lodge in Yuyao, behaving overbearingly.

文度後還葬母，郡縣爭赴弔，憲之不與相聞。 Wendu later returned to bury his mother; commandery and county competed to attend mourning, but Xianzhi did not acknowledge it.

文度深銜之，卒不能傷也。 Wendu deeply resented this but in the end could not harm him.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 56Volume 56 Biographies 37: Trusted Officials · 5 passages

紀僧真劉係宗茹法亮呂文顯呂文度 Ji Sengzhen, Liu Xizong, Ru Faliang, Lü Wenxian, and Lü Wendu

呂文度，會稽人。 Lü Wendu was a native of Kuaiji.

世祖鎮盆城拒沈攸之，文度仍留伏事，知軍隊雜役，以此見親。 When Emperor Wu was stationed at Pencheng resisting Shen Youzhi, Wendu remained behind to serve in secret and knew the army's miscellaneous duties; for this he won the emperor's favor.

世祖卽位，爲制局監，位至員外郎，帶南濮陽太守。 When Emperor Wu took the throne, Wendu was made supervisor of the Equipment Bureau, rose to supplementary gentleman, and concurrently served as governor of Nanpuyang.

故世傳越州嘗缺，上覔一直事人往越州，文度啓其所知費延宗合旨，上卽以爲刺史。 Hence the story that when Yuezhou once lacked a governor, the emperor sought a direct attendant to send there. Wendu reported that Fei Yanzong, a man he knew, suited the emperor's wishes, and the emperor at once appointed him governor.