Song Ben (宋本) | 24 Histories

Overview

Song Ben was an official and Writer.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	Upright Presentation	正獻	Zhengxian

Life and dates

Death

AD 1334 是年冬十一月二十五日
Age Value: 54 · Reckoning: Sui
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 258

Age

54
AD 1334 是年冬十一月二十五日 · Reckoning Sui · Point death
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 258

Attested activity

AD 1332 三年冬
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 182, passages 254-255
AD 1329 二年
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 182, passages 250-251
AD 1331 二年冬
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 182, passage 253
AD 1334 二年夏
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 182, passage 257
AD 1333 元統元年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 256
AD 1327 四年春
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 182, passage 248

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AD 1328 天曆元年冬
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 249
AD 1298 弱冠
Derived from the source · History of Yuan 182, passage 273
AD 1334 是年冬十一月二十五日
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 182, passage 258
AD 1330 至順元年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 252

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Father of Song Ben (宋本之父)
father 父
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 263
Child of Mother of Song Ben (宋本之母)
parent 親
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 182, passage 265
Sibling of Song Jiong (宋褧)
younger brother 弟 · Full siblings
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 308

Kinship Role parents · Count 2
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 265

Career and standing

gentleman for court service rising through ten steps to grand master for splendid happiness 承務郎十轉至太中大夫
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 259
vice surveillance commissioner of Hedong 河東廉訪副使
AD 1331 二年冬 · Appointed
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 182, passage 253
treating censor of the Shaanxi Branch Censorate 陝西行台治書侍御史
AD 1333 元統元年冬 · Appointed · Negated true · Outcome Did not accept
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 256
vice minister of rites 禮部侍郎
AD 1329 二年 · Changed to
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 182, passage 250
chancellor of the Directorate of Education 國子祭酒
AD 1334 二年夏 · Concurrent
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 182, passage 257
classics colloquium official 經筵官
AD 1333 元統元年 · Concurrent
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 256

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director of the Directorate of Literary Arts 藝文監大監
AD 1329 是年 · Exceptionally promoted to
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 182, passage 251
minister of rites 禮部尚書
AD 1331 二年冬 · Promoted to
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 182, passage 253
vice minister of personnel 吏部侍郎
AD 1328 天曆元年冬 · Promoted to
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 249
academician attendant of the Kuizhang Pavilion Academy 奎章閣學士院供奉學士
AD 1330 至順元年 · Promoted to
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 252
drafting academician of the Kuizhang Pavilion Academy 奎章閣學士院承製學士
AD 1333 元統元年冬 · Retained as
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 256
direct academician of the Hall of Gathered Worthies 集賢直學士
AD 1334 二年夏 · Transferred to
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 182, passage 257
director of the Ministry of Rites 禮部郎中
AD 1327 四年春 · Transferred to
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 182, passage 248
Upright Presentation 正獻
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 268
grand master for splendid happiness 太中大夫
Ranked official
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 259

Places and affiliations

Polity Id yuan · Relation Served
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 248
AD 1331 二年冬
At Hedong 河東 · Relation Posted to
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 182, passage 253
At rented house 僦屋 · Relation Resided in
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 265

Learning and skills

Skill examination administration 知貢舉、讀卷
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passages 261-262

Works and attributed material

Collected Works of the Zhizhi Reign 至治集
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 267
Collected Works of the Zhizhi Reign 至治集
Relation Author · Extent forty fascicles 四十卷
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 267
Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 254

Events and relationships

Advised abolishing Daming Hall new year congratulations
AD 1333 三年冬……正旦 · Ritual · Proposer · At Xingsheng Palace 興聖宮 · Outcome Assembly followed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passages 254-255
Buried with funeral gifts and nearly two thousand mourners
AD 1334 及卒 · Funerary · Deceased
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 182, passage 266
Filled jinshi quota of one hundred
Scholarly · Chief examiner
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 261
Gathered students to support parents
AD 1300 to AD 1320 未弱冠……殆二十年 · Personal · Teacher
Derived from the source · History of Yuan 182, passage 265
Increased first class to three
Scholarly · Reading examiner
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 262
Relation Fellow student and co teacher of · Person Xie Duan (謝端)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 273

Assessments and attributes

Assessment equally famed in letters with Song Jiong as the Two Songs · Mode named-source-report
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 310
Assessment equally famed in letters with Xie Duan as Xie and Song · Mode named-source-report
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 273
Assessment honored by contemporaries for a funeral attended only by gentry, students, and former subordinates · Mode named-source-report
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 266
Assessment lofty, unyielding, upright, incorruptible, devoted to friendship, champion of civilization · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 260

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 251
In office he was so frugal that porridge sometimes ran short; after his father sold the house in the south he still rented lodging even when eminent.
Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passages 263-265

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History

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History of Yuan, Chapter 182Volume 182 Biographies 69: Zhang Qiyan, ŌUyang Xuan, Xu Youren, Song Ben, Xie Duan · 9 passages

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是年，文宗開奎章閣，置藝文監，檢校書籍，超大監。 That year Emperor Wenzong opened the Kuizhang Pavilion, established the Directorate of Literary Arts to inspect books, and Ben was exceptionally promoted to director.

三年冬，寧宗崩，順帝未至，皇太后在興聖宮，正旦，議循故事，行朝賀禮，本言：「宜上表興聖宮，廢大明殿朝賀。」 In winter of the third year Emperor Ningzong died and Emperor Shundi had not yet arrived. The empress dowager was at Xingsheng Palace. At New Year's Day, following precedent, they deliberated on performing the court congratulation rites. Ben said: "It is fitting to submit a memorial at Xingsheng Palace and abolish the court congratulation at the Daming Hall."

本性高抗不屈，持論堅正，制行純白，不可干以私，而篤朋友之義，堅若金鐵，人有片善，稱道不少置，尤以植立斯文自任。 By nature Ben was lofty and unyielding. He held to upright principles, conducted himself with pure integrity, and could not be swayed by private interest. Yet he was devoted to the duty of friendship, firm as gold and iron. If a man had even a small virtue, he praised it without stint. Above all he took upon himself the task of upholding civilization.

居官清慎自持，饘粥至不給。 Ben, in office, maintained pure caution in self-conduct, sometimes scarcely having enough porridge.

本未弱冠，聚徒以養親，殆二十年，歷仕通顯，猶僦屋以居。 Before Ben had reached twenty, he gathered students to support his parents, for nearly twenty years. Though he rose through office to eminence, he still rented a house to live in.

本所著有《至治集》四十卷，行於世。 Ben's writings include the 《Collected Works of the Zhizhi Reign》 in forty fascicles, circulated in the world.

諡正獻。 His posthumous title was Upright Presentation.

其文學與本齊名，人稱之曰二宋云。 His literary attainments were equally famed with Ben's, and people called them the Two Songs.

弱冠，與尚書宋本同師，明性理，為古文，又同教授江陵城中，以文學齊名，時號「謝宋」。 At twenty he studied under the same teacher as Minister Song Ben, mastered moral principle, wrote ancient-style prose, and together they taught in Jiangling city. They were equally famed in letters, and people of the time called them "Xie and Song."