Sui and Tang · Family Member

Mother-in-law of Lady Lu

Attested AD 627 - AD 649

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Mother-in-law of Lady Lu was a Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 627 to AD 649 貞觀中
Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 203, passages 105, 114

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Kin of Lady Lu (盧氏)
mother-in-law 姑
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passages 104-105
Parent of Zheng Yizong (鄭義宗)
son 子
Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 203, passages 103, 105

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Lady Lu (盧氏)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 113

Events and relationships

Remained during bandit raid
Violent · Victim protected
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passages 105-106

Assessments and attributes

Assessment true heart of daughter-in-law like pine and cypress in cold · About Person Id Lady Lu (盧氏) · Mode named-person-judgment Speaker Mother-in-law of Lady Lu
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 113

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 203Volume 193 Biographies 143: Exemplary Women · 5 passages

略涉書史，事舅姑甚得婦道。 She had some knowledge of literature and history and served her parents-in-law with exemplary wifely devotion.

嘗夜有強盜數十人，持杖鼓噪，逾垣而入，家人悉奔竄，唯有姑獨在室。 One night several dozen bandits, brandishing clubs and raising a din, climbed over the wall; the entire household fled in panic, leaving only her mother-in-law alone in the room.

盧冒白刃往至姑側，為賊捶擊之，幾至於死。 Lu braved naked blades to reach her mother-in-law's side and was beaten by the bandits nearly to death.

且鄰裏有急，尚相赴救，況在於姑，而可委棄！ When neighbors are in distress, people still rush to help—how much less could I abandon my mother-in-law!

其姑每嘆云：「古人稱歲寒然後知松柏之後雕也，吾今乃知盧新婦之心矣！」 Her mother-in-law would often sigh and say, "The ancients said that only in bitter cold does one know that the pine and cypress are the last to fade—I now truly know the heart of my daughter-in-law Lu!"