Sui and Tang · Family Member

Mother of Lady Jing

Attested AD 618 - AD 649

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Mother of Lady Jing was a Family Member.

Life and dates

Death

Unspecified
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 85

Attested activity

AD 618 to AD 649 唐初（本傳敘次在武德與貞觀之間）
Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 203, passages 69, 85

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Lady Jing (敬氏)
mother 母
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 69
Parent of Elder Brother of Lady Jing
mother 母
Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 69

Events and relationships

Sought to force remarriage
Personal · Agent · With Lady Jing (敬氏)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passages 69, 71

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 203Volume 193 Biographies 143: Exemplary Women · 6 passages

及服終，母兄以其盛年，將奪其誌。 When her mourning period ended, her mother and elder brother, seeing that she was still young, sought to make her remarry.

母兄乃潛許人為婚，矯稱母患以召之。 Her mother and brother then secretly betrothed her to another man and summoned her home with a false report that her mother was ill.

像子既至，省母無疾，鄰家復具肴善，像子知為所欺，佯為不悟者。 When Xiangzi arrived and found her mother was not ill, the neighbors again set out a feast; Xiangzi realized she had been deceived and pretended not to notice.

所以不死者，徒以我母羸老，汝身幼弱。 The only reason I have not died is that my mother is frail and aged, and you are still young and helpless.

後會仁年十八病卒，時像子母已終。 Later, when Huiren was eighteen, he died of illness; by then Xiangzi's mother had already died.

既葬，像子謂其所親曰：「吾老母不幸，又夫死子亡，義無久活。」 After the burial, Xiangzi told her intimates, "My mother is gone, my husband is dead, and my son is lost—there is no reason left to live."