Mother of Liu Wensou | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Mother of Liu Wensou as a family member. This record brings together 2 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	Mother of Liu Wensou
Descriptive kinship	Mother of Liu Wensou

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Anonymous individuated
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0072

Roles

Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 長興中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 930 · End: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:068:s0073

Family

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Parent of Liu Wensou (劉溫叟)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Liu Wensou (劉溫叟) · Quoted: true
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0073, jiuwudaishi:068:s0074

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: very worthy · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Statesmen's Garden of Talk / 國老談苑
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0072
Item: official robes and gold belt / 公服、金帶 · Relation: kept · Other Person Id: Liu Yue (劉嶽)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0073

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 2 passages

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幼孤，事母以孝聞，其母甚賢。 Orphaned in childhood, he was famed for filial devotion to his mother, who was a woman of exceptional virtue.

初為翰林學士，私庭拜母，母即命二婢箱擎公服、金帶，置於階下，謂溫叟曰：「此汝父長興中入翰林時所賜也。 When he first became a Hanlin academician, he bowed to his mother in their private courtyard. She at once had two maidservants bring out chests holding official robes and a gold belt and set them on the steps, saying, "These were granted when your father entered the Hanlin in the Changxing era.