Lu Yanshi (陸彥師) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Lu Yanshi as an aristocrat, official, and scholar. This record brings together 11 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	Lu Yanshi	陸彥師	Lù Yànshī
Surname	Lu	陸	Lu
Personal name	Lu Yanshi	彥師	Lu Yanshi
Given	Yanshi	彥師	Yanshi
Courtesy	Yunfang	雲房	Yúnfáng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Value: male
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Roles

Aristocrat
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died in office · Office: governor of Fenzhou / 汾州刺史
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: undated Sui-period biography · Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 618
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Source Date: Text: 周武平齊 · Western Year: AD 577
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Source Date: Text: 高祖受禪 · Western Year: AD 581
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Source Date: Text: 高祖為丞相 · Western Year: c. AD 580
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Source Date: Text: 齊文宣 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 559
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Family

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Descendant of Lu Xidao (陸希道)
Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal · Subject Role: grandfather · Object Role: grandson
Sibling of Lu Ang (陸卬)
Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Role: elder brother · Object Role: younger brother · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full
Child of Lu Zizhang (陸子彰)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Spouse of Wife of Lu Yanshi (陸彥師之妻)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife · Relationship State: active

Kinship Role: children · Count: 2 · Source Term: children / 子
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Origins and identity

家傳纓冕
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Career and standing

Label: governor of Fenzhou / 汾州刺史 · Action: appointed-out
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Label: governor of Zhongshan / 中山太守 · Action: appointed-out
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Label: Left Assistant Director of the Secretariat / 尚書左丞 · Action: appointed · Appointing Person Id: Emperor Wen (隋高祖) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 高祖受禪 · Western Year: AD 581
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Label: Grand Master of the Palace in the Secretariat / 內史下大夫 · Action: appointed · Appointing Person Id: Emperor Wen (隋高祖)
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Label: Grand Master of the Palace for Carriage Masters / 載師下大夫 · Action: appointed · Appointing Person Id: Yuwen Yong (宇文邕) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 周武平齊 · Western Year: AD 577
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Label: chief clerk / 主簿 · Action: appointed · Appointing Person Id: Chou (浟)
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Label: staff officer / 參軍事 · Action: appointed · Appointing Person Id: Yuan Xu (元旭) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 魏 · Western Interval: Start: AD 534 · End: AD 550
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Label: Attendant Gentleman of the Yellow Gate at the Secretariat / 中書黃門侍郎 · Action: held
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Label: Libationer of the Eastern Pavilion / 東閣祭酒 · Action: held
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Label: Attendant of the Secretariat / 中書舍人 · Action: promoted
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Label: Director in the Ministry of Personnel / 吏部郎中 · Action: recalled-and-appointed
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Label: Junior Remonstrator / 少納言 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宣帝時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 578 · End: AD 580
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Label: Gentleman of the Palace in Regular Attendance / 通直散騎侍郎 · Action: transferred
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Label: Vice Director of the Ministry of Personnel / 吏部侍郎 · Action: transferred
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Title: Marquis of Shiping / 始平侯 · Action: refused
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Label: honorific marker and Filial Mourning Lane / 旌表其閭、孝終里 · Action: bestowed · Authority Person Id: Emperor Wenxuan of Qi (齊文宣帝)
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Label: Senior Yitong / 上儀同 · Action: granted · Authority Person Id: Emperor Wen (隋高祖)
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Title: Baron of Linshui county / 臨水縣男 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宣帝時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 578 · End: AD 580
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Title: Marquis of Shiping / 始平侯 · Action: offered-by-heir · Other Person Id: Lu Ang (陸卬)
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Title: Viscount / 子 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 高祖受禪 · Western Year: AD 581
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Status: retirement-at-home-with-title · Action: granted-after-resignation-request
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Places and affiliations

Place: Linzhang in Wei commandery / 魏郡臨漳 · Relation: native-of
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Place: Ye / 鄴 · Relation: returned-on-leave
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Learning and skills

Subject: learning / 學 · Relation: devoted-to
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Skill: literary composition / 屬文 · Level: adept
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Works and attributed material

Kind: historian-comment · Role: subject
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Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: mourner · Action: carried-earth-to-build-tomb-nearly-ruining-health
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Kind: political · Role: defector · Action: discerned Wei Jiong's intended rebellion, left his family, and secretly returned to Chang'an · Other Person Id: Yuchi Jiong (尉遲迥)
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Kind: mourning · Role: mourner · Action: left office, lived beside his father's tomb, and built the mound by carrying earth · Other Person Id: Lu Zizhang (陸子彰)
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Kind: diplomatic · Role: host · Action: received six successive Chen missions
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Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: sent on mission · Places: You / 幽, Ji / 薊
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Kind: political · Role: victim · Action: slandered after refusing to flatter eunuchs
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Relation: recommended-by · Person Id: Xing Shao (邢卲) · Instrument: memorial
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: brotherly devotion and filial righteousness were concentrated in his family · Provenance: Mode: contemporary-reputation
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Assessment: distinguished gentry from commoners in appointments and was praised for it · Provenance: Mode: contemporary-reputation
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Assessment: governed Zhongshan benevolently · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Assessment: grief was so extreme he nearly died · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Assessment: showed proper conduct from youth and was praised by clan and neighborhood · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Assessment: though violating measured norms of former kings, excess reveals humanity · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Kind: health · Statement: fell ill and later remained chronically sick
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References in the histories

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Book of Sui, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 37: Filial Piety · 11 passages

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○陸彥師 Lu Yanshi

陸彥師，字雲房，魏郡臨漳人。 Lu Yanshi, styled Yunfang, was a native of Linzhang in Wei commandery.

彥師少有行檢，為邦族所稱。 From youth Yanshi conducted himself with propriety and was praised throughout his clan and neighborhood.

兄卬當襲父始平侯，以彥師昆弟中最幼，表讓封焉。 His brother Ang was due to inherit their father's marquisate of Shiping; because Yanshi was the youngest brother, Ang petitioned to yield the fief to him.

彥師固辭而止。 Yanshi firmly refused, and the matter was dropped.

每陳使至，必令高選主客，彥師所接對者，前後六輩。 Whenever envoys from Chen arrived, the court always selected the most distinguished men to receive them — Yanshi handled such duties for six missions in succession.

俄而高祖為丞相，彥師遇疾，請假還鄴。 Before long Gaozu became Chancellor; Yanshi fell ill and requested leave to return to Ye.

尉迥將為亂，彥師微知之，遂委妻子，潛歸長安。 When Wei Jiong was preparing to rebel, Yanshi had some inkling of it; he abandoned wife and children and stole back to Chang'an.

彥師素多病，未幾，以務劇疾動，乞解所職，有詔聽以本官就第。 Yanshi had long been in poor health; before long the strain of office aggravated his illness, and he petitioned to resign; an edict allowed him to retain his title and retire home.

隋承周制，官無清濁，彥師在職，凡所任人，頗甄別於士庶，論者美之。 The Sui followed Zhou institutions, in which offices carried no distinction of pure versus impure rank; in office Yanshi carefully distinguished gentry from commoners in every appointment he made, and commentators praised him for it.

而彥師、道賾，或家傳纓冕，或身誓山河，遂乃負土成墳，致毀滅性。 Yet men such as Lu Yanshi and Xue Daozhen — one inheriting rank through generations, the other pledging himself to his sovereign as to mountains and rivers — still piled earth with their own hands until their bodies nearly broke, devotion carried to the edge of life itself.