Mother of Wang Yin (王殷母)

Overview

Mother of Wang Yin was a Family Member.

PeriodFive Dynasties

IdentityHistorical · Female · Anonymous individuated

Roles

Found in

Life and dates

Death

AD 936 to AD 944 晉天福中
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 13

Attested activity

AD 936 to AD 944 晉天福中
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 13

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Wang Yin (王殷)
mother 母
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passages 9, 13
Spouse of Xian'gui (鹹珪)
mother 母 · Marriage
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passages 4, 9

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 124Volume 124 Book of Later Zhou 26: Biographies 4: Wang Yin, He Fejin, Liu Ci, Wang Jin, Shi Yanchao, Shi Yi, Wang Lingwen, Zhou Mi, Li Huaizong, Bai Wenke, Bai Yanyu, Tang Jinsi · 5 passages

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殷性謙謹好禮，事母以孝聞，每與人結交，過從皆先稟於母，母命不從，殷必不往，雖在軍旅，交遊不雜。 Yin was by nature modest, careful, and devoted to propriety, and he was famed for the way he honored his mother. Before he kept company with anyone he always asked her leave; if she forbade it he would not go. Even amid camp life his circle of friends remained small and select.

及為刺史，政事小有不佳，母察之，立殷於庭，詰責而杖之。 Once he became a prefect, the least slip in his governance would be noticed by his mother. She would have him stand in the courtyard, rebuke him, and beat him with a rod.

〈（《歐陽史》：殷為刺史，政事有小失，母責之，殷即取杖授婢仆，自笞於母前。）〉 (The 《Ouyang History》 records that when Yin was prefect and committed a minor error in office, his mother rebuked him; he immediately handed the rod to a servant and had himself beaten in her presence.)〉

晉天福中，丁內艱，尋有詔起復，授憲州刺史，殷上章辭曰：「臣為末將，出處無損益於國家。 During the Jin Tianfu period he entered mourning for his mother. An edict soon recalled him to service and appointed him prefect of Xian Prefecture. Yin memorialized the throne to decline, writing: "Your servant is only a minor commander. Whether I serve or withdraw can neither help nor harm the state.

臣本燕人，值鄉國離亂，少罹偏罰，因母鞠養訓導，方得成人，不忍遽釋苴麻，遠離廬墓，伏願許臣終母喪紀。」 I am a man of Yan. My homeland was ravaged by war, and in youth I suffered exile and hardship; it was only through my mother's care and teaching that I grew to manhood. I cannot bring myself to cast off my mourning garments so soon or to leave her grave. I beg that I be permitted to see out the full mourning period for my mother."