Nie Shunying (舜英) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Nie Shunying as a family member and named individual. This record brings together 8 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Nie Shunying	舜英	Shùnyīng
Personal name	Nie Xiaonü	聶孝女	Nie Xiaonü
Personal name	Shunying	舜英	Shùnyīng
Courtesy name	Shunying	舜英	Shunying

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
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Roles

Family Member
Named Individual

Life and dates

Death

Manner: broke neck
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Manner: hanged herself
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Age

Years: 23 · Reckoning: sui · Context: at marriage
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 崔立之變 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1232 · End: AD 1233
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Source Date: Text: 崔立變後 · Western Year: AD 1233
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Family

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Child of Nie Tianji (聶天驥)
Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
Child of Mother of Nie Tianji (聶天驥之母)
Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological
Child of Tianji (天驥)
Kinship Term: eldest daughter / 長女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Birth Order: 1
Spouse of Zhang Bohao (張伯豪)
Kinship Term: married to / 適 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: widowed

Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: mourner · Action: buried · Other Person Id: Nie Tianji (聶天驥)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: praised by contemporaries · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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History of Jin, Chapter 115Volume 115 Biographies 53: Wanyan Nushen, Cui Li, Li Qi, Nie Tianji, Chizhan Weixin · 2 passages

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其女舜英謁醫救療，天驥歎曰：「吾幸得死，兒女曹乃為謁醫，尚欲我活耶？」 His daughter Shunying went to beg physicians to treat him. Tianji sighed and said: "I was fortunate enough to die—must you children beg physicians? Do you still want me to live?"

舜英葬其父，明日亦自縊，有傳。 Shunying buried her father; the next day she hanged herself. She has a separate biography.

History of Jin, Chapter 130Volume 130 Biographies 68: Exemplary Women: The Wife of A Lin; The Wife of Li Baoxin; The Wife of Han Qingmin; Lei Fu, née Shi; Kang Zhuzhu; The Wife of Li Wen; The Wife of Li Ying; The Wife of Xiang Qi; A Luzhen; The Wife of Sahe Nian; The Wife of Xu Gu; Feng Miaozhen; Lady Pucha; Lady Wugulun; The Wife of Su Lan; The Wife of Mang Ge; Lady Yin; Lady Bai; Nie Xiaonü; The Wife of Zhong De; Lady Li of Baofu; Zhang Fengnu · 6 passages

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列傳第六十八列女 ○阿鄰妻李寶信妻韓慶民妻雷婦師氏康住住李文妻李英妻相琪妻阿魯真撒合輦妻許古妻馮妙真蒲察氏烏古論氏素蘭妻忙哥妻尹氏白氏聶孝女仲德妻寶符李氏張鳳奴 Biographies 68 — Exemplary Women: The Wife of A Lin; The Wife of Li Baoxin; The Wife of Han Qingmin; Lei Fu, née Shi; Kang Zhuzhu; The Wife of Li Wen; The Wife of Li Ying; The Wife of Xiang Qi; A Luzhen; The Wife of Sahe Nian; The Wife of Xu Gu; Feng Miaozhen; Lady Pucha; Lady Wugulun; The Wife of Su Lan; The Wife of Mang Ge; Lady Yin; Lady Bai; Nie Xiaonü; The Wife of Zhong De; Lady Li of Baofu; Zhang Fengnu

聶孝女 Nie Xiaonü

聶孝女，字舜英，尚書左右司員外郎天驥之長女也。 Nie Xiaonü, styled Shunying, was the eldest daughter of Tianji, associate administrator of the Left and Right Offices of the Secretariat.

舜英謁醫救療百方，至刲其股雜他肉以進，而天驥竟死。 Shunying sought every physician and remedy, even cutting flesh from her thigh and mixing it with other meat for him to eat, but Tianji died all the same.

舜英頗讀書知義理，自以年尚少艾，夫既亡，父又死非命，比為兵所汙，何若從吾父于地下乎。 Shunying was well read and understood moral principle. Still young and fair, with her husband dead and her father killed violently, she thought it better to join her father in the grave than to be violated by soldiers.

其家以舜英合葬張伯豪之墓。 Her family buried her beside Zhang Bohao.