Tu 圖

Other names

Family

• Kin of Nephew and Heir of Tu (甥)
  nephew 甥 · maternal line
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 289
• Parent of Nephew and Heir of Tu (甥)
  heir 嗣 · Adoptive parentage
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 289

• Kinship Role sons · Count 0 · Negated true
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 289

Career and standing

• Director of the Ministry of Rites 禮部尚書
  AD 907 朱全忠已篡 · Refused
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 287
• Declined
  AD 907 朱全忠已篡 · Refused appointment
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 287
• hid himself and did not emerge 隱不出
  Recluse · Entered
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 272
• impeached by a censor 為御史所劾
  Impeached
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 289
• not punished by Emperor Zhaozong 昭宗不責
  Pardoned · Authority Emperor Zhaozong (昭宗)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 289

Places and affiliations

• Polity Later Liang 後梁 · Relation Summoned by ruler of
  Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 194, passage 287
• Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Lived under
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passages 273, 289
• At ancestral fields at Wangguan Valley 王官谷先人田 · Relation Associated with
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 272
• At Wangguan Valley on Mount Zhongtiao 中條山王官谷 · Relation Resided at
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passages 272, 286

Learning and skills

• Skill poetry 賦詩 · Level practiced
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 280

Works and attributed material

• stele for Wang Chongrong father and son 王重榮父子碑
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 285
• Xiuxiu pavilion statement of aim 休休亭見誌文
  Essay · Author · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passages 273-277
• Why not broaden your view? Life and death are one; would I not rather wander awhile in this place!
  Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passages 281-282

Events and relationships

• Built a plain pavilion and lodge, painted Tang men of integrity and literary men, named it Xiuxiu
  Scholarly · Builder · Built pavilion and painted worthies · At Xiuxiu Pavilion 休休亭
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 273
• Placed gift silk in Yuxiang market for anyone to take; gone in one day
  Personal · Distributor · Placed silk in market for anyone · At Yuxiang 虞鄉
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 285
• Often sent gifts which he would not accept
  Personal · Recipient · Refused gifts · With Wang Chongrong (王重榮)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 284
• On fine days led guests to sit in the burial pit, compose poetry, and pour wine
  Personal · Host · Sat in burial pit composing poetry
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 280
• Each year at the seasons offered prayers with drum and dance and rejoiced with village elders
  Ritual · Participant · Seasonal prayers with village elders
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 283
• Bandits were brutal everywhere yet did not enter Wangguan Valley; scholars relied on it to escape harm
  Military · Protected resident · Valley spared by bandits · At Wangguan Valley 王官谷
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 286

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment knew fate; aims contended with autumn frost in severity; a true man · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 294
• Assessment words eccentric and sharp, not constant, to escape calamities of the time · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 279
• Item several thousand bolts of silk 絹數千 · Relation Received and distributed · At Yuxiang market 虞鄉市
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 285
• Item tomb and coffin prepared in advance 冢棺 · Relation Prepared
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 280

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 272
• styled himself the Recluse Who Endures Insult
  To Recluse Who Endures Insult 耐辱居士
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 278