Wei Pu (魏溥) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wei Pu as a named individual. This record brings together 9 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	Wei Pu	魏溥	Wèi Pǔ
Personal	Wei Pu	魏溥	Wei Pu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · weishu:098:s0001
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · weishu:110:s0150

Roles

Named Individual

Life and dates

Death

Cause: illness
Explicit · weishu:098:s0058, weishu:098:s0065

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 魏世 · Western Interval: Start: AD 386 · End: AD 534
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:098:s0001
Source Date: Text: 魏溥妻房氏傳 · Western Interval: Start: AD 450 · End: AD 500
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:110:s0150

Family

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Parent of Wei Ji (魏緝)
Kinship Term: infant son / 赤子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Lady Liu, mother of Wei Pu (劉氏)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Spouse of Lady Fang (房氏)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband · Relationship State: widowed

Career and standing

Status: never held office · Negated: true
Explicit · weishu:098:s0090

Works and attributed material

Kind: deathbed speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Lady Fang (房氏) · Quoted: true · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Source Person Id: Wei Pu (魏溥)
Explicit · weishu:098:s0058, weishu:098:s0059, weishu:098:s0060, weishu:098:s0061

References in the histories

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Book of Wei, Chapter 98Volume 92: Notable Women: Cui Lan's Consort Feng, Feng Zhuo's Consort Liu, Wei Pu's Consort Fang, Hu Changming's Consort Zhang · 8 passages

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崔覽妻封氏封卓妻劉氏魏溥妻房氏胡長命妻張氏平原女子孫氏房愛親妻崔氏涇州貞女兕先氏[1] 姚氏婦楊氏張洪初妻劉氏[2] 董景起妻張氏陽尼妻高氏史映周妻耿氏任城國太妃孟氏苟金龍妻劉氏盧元禮妻李氏河東孝女姚氏刁思遵妻魯氏 Lady Feng, consort of Cui Lan; Lady Liu, consort of Feng Zhuo; Lady Fang, consort of Wei Pu; Lady Zhang, consort of Hu Changming; Sun Nanyu of Pingyuan; Lady Cui, consort of Fang Aiqin; the chaste woman Sixian of Jing Prefecture; Lady Yang of the Yao household; Lady Liu, consort of Zhang Hongchu; Lady Zhang, consort of Dong Jingqi; Lady Gao, consort of Yang Ni; Lady Geng, consort of Shi Yingzhou; Grand Consort Meng of Rencheng; Lady Liu, consort of Gou Jinlong; Lady Li, consort of Lu Yuanli; the filial daughter Yao of Hedong; Lady Lu, consort of Diao Sizun.

鉅鹿魏溥妻，常山房氏女也。 The consort of Wei Pu of Julu was a daughter of the Fang clan of Changshan.

年十六而溥遇病且卒，顧謂之曰：「人生如白駒過隙，死不足恨，但夙心往志，不聞於沒世矣。 When she was sixteen, Pu fell mortally ill and said to her: "Life passes like a white colt through a crack—death itself is no grief, but the hopes I have cherished all my life will die unheard.

[4]房垂泣而對曰：「幸承先人餘訓，出事君子，義在自畢。 [4] Fang wept as she answered: "I have been fortunate to receive my ancestors' teaching; having married a gentleman, my duty is to see it through to the end.

俄而溥卒。 Shortly afterward Pu died.

又頌曰：「爰及處士，遘疾夙凋。 He also wrote a eulogy: "When the retired gentleman fell ill, he perished before his time.

溥未仕而卒，故云處士焉。 Pu died without ever taking office, hence he is called a retired gentleman.

所以抱怨於黃墟耳北史卷九一魏溥妻房氏傳「墟」作「壚」。 "This is why I lodge my complaint in the yellow mound": in the biography of Wei Pu's wife Lady Fang in juan 91 of the History of the Northern Dynasties, "mound (xu)" appears as "barrow (lu)."

Book of Wei, Chapter 110Volume 104: Author's Preface · 1 passage

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至李孝伯之壻魏悅則魏子建之父，魏收之祖，見本書卷九一王叡附王椿傳、卷九二魏溥妻房氏傳，也無可疑。 The Wei Yue who was Li Xiaobo's son-in-law was father of Wei Zijian and grandfather of Wei Shou, as recorded in scroll 91 (biography of Wang Rui, with appended biography of Wang Chun) and scroll 92 (biography of Wei Pu's wife, née Fang)—and this is beyond question.