Yuan · Aristocrat and Family Member

Miao'an 妙安

c. AD 1332 - AD 1360

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Miao'an was an aristocrat and Family Member.

Life and dates

Death

AD 1360 至正二十年
Cut her own throat
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 201, passages 269, 272

Age

20
Reckoning Sui
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 266
29
AD 1360 至正二十年 · Reckoning Sui
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 201, passage 272

Attested activity

AD 1360 至正二十年
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 201, passage 269

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Spouse of Zheng Qi (鄭琪)
wife 妻 · Primary marriage
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passages 264, 266

Career and standing

Yiren 宜人
Granted
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 268

Places and affiliations

At Yiyang in Xinzhou 信州弋陽
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 264

Learning and skills

Skill reciting the Biographies of Exemplary Women from memory 能暗誦《列女傳》 · Level from childhood
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 265

Works and attributed material

Biographies of Exemplary Women 列女傳
Relation Recited from memory
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 265
Speech · Speaker · With Zheng Qi (鄭琪) · Direct quotation · Mode quotation Speaker Miao'an (妙安)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 271

Events and relationships

Cut her own throat when troops arrived
AD 1360 至正二十年 · Personal · Participant
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 201, passage 272
Whetted her belt knife as a plan of self preservation
AD 1360 至正二十年 · Personal · Participant
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 201, passages 270-271

Assessments and attributes

Assessment fulfilled wifely duties without complaint · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 267
clever from childhood
Character
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 265
Item knife at her belt 所佩刀 · Relation Used
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 270

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passages 264, 267-268, 270, 272

References in the histories

History of Yuan, Chapter 201Volume 201 Biographies 88: Exemplary Women 2 · 5 passages

鄭琪妻羅氏，名妙安，信州弋陽人。 Zheng Qi's wife Lady Luo, whose given name was Miao'an, came from Yiyang in Xinzhou.

琪家世宦族，同居百餘口，羅氏執婦道無間言。 Qi's family had served as officials for generations, and more than a hundred relatives lived under one roof. Lady Luo fulfilled her duties as a wife without a murmur of complaint.

琪以軍功擢鉛山州判官，羅氏封宜人。 For his military service Qi was promoted to assistant magistrate of Qianshan Subprefecture, and Lady Luo was granted the title of Yiren.

羅氏度弋陽去州不遠，必不免於難，輒取所佩刀淬礪，令銛甚。 Lady Luo judged that Yiyang, so close to the prefectural seat, would not escape the coming disaster. She took the knife at her belt, whetted it, and honed it razor-sharp.

已而兵至，羅氏自刎死，時年二十九。 Before long the soldiers arrived. Lady Luo cut her own throat and died. She was twenty-nine.