Wei Shi 魏氏

Family

• Spouse of Yanchen (彥琛)
  husband 夫 · Widowed
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 171

• Kinship Role orphans · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 167

Career and standing

• Entered
  AD 684 李敬業之亂 · Widow
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passages 169, 171
• execution by beheading 斬
  AD 684 李敬業之亂 · Suffered
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 177

Places and affiliations

• Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Subject of
  Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 169

Learning and skills

• Skill silk-and-bamboo music / zither 絲竹 · Level skilled
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 170

Works and attributed material

• Speech · Addressee · Direct quotation · With Yanchen (彥琛)
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passages 166-168
• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passages 165, 171-172, 176

Events and relationships

• Captured by rebels
  AD 684 李敬業之亂 · Military · Captive
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 169
• Cut off own fingers
  AD 684 李敬業之亂 · Personal · Actor
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 173
• Forced to play zither
  AD 684 李敬業之亂 · Personal · Victim
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 170
• Refused forced marriage to rebels
  AD 684 李敬業之亂 · Personal · Resister
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 174
• Urged to live and rear orphans
  Personal · Addressee · With Yanchen (彥琛)
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passages 167-168

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment hearers all grieved and pitied her · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passage 177

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 193, passages 169, 177