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Yin Buhai 殷不害

Died AD 589

Passages
21
Chapters
2
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Yin Buhai as a courtier, official, and scholar. This record brings together 21 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yin Buhai 殷不害 Yin Buhai
Given name Buhai 不害 Buhai
Courtesy name Changqing 長卿 Changqing
Surname Yin Yin
Personal name Yin Buhai 殷不害 Yin Buhai

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Courtier
  • Official
  • Scholar

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: fell ill on the road and died / 道病卒 · Age: Years: 85 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 禎明三年 · Western Year: AD 589
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0036

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 大同五年 · Western Year: AD 539
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0014
  • Source Date: Text: 大寶二年十月壬寅 · Western Year: AD 551
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:004:s0119
  • Source Date: Text: 太建七年 · Western Year: AD 575
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0031
  • Source Date: Text: 太建八年 · Western Year: AD 576
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0032
  • Source Date: Text: 太清初 · Western Year: AD 547
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0019
  • Source Date: Text: 禎明三年 · Western Year: AD 589
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0036

Family

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  • Child of Yin Ren (殷任)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal · Parentage: biological
  • Sibling of Yin Buzhan (殷不占)
    Kinship Term: brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full
  • Sibling of Yin Buyi (殷不疑)
    Kinship Term: brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full
  • Sibling of Yin Buqi (殷不齊)
    Kinship Term: brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full
  • Sibling of Second brother of Yin Buhai
    Kinship Term: brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full
  • Parent of Yin Sengshou (僧首)
    Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Birth Order: 1
    Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological
  • Child of Yin Gaoming (殷高明)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
  • Child of Lady Cai (蔡氏)
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
  • Sibling of Yin Buxin (殷不佞)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder

Career and standing

  • Label: communicating affairs attendant of the eastern palace / 東宮通事舍人 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同五年 · Western Year: AD 539
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0014
  • Label: recorder of the Pacify-West staff / 鎮西府記室參軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同五年 · Western Year: AD 539
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0014
  • Label: chamberlain for agriculture / 司農卿 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太建七年 · Western Year: AD 575
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0031
  • Label: grand master of splendid happiness / 光祿大夫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太建七年 · Western Year: AD 575
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0031
  • Label: administrator of Jinling / 晉陵太守 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太建八年 · Western Year: AD 576
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0032
  • Label: General of Manifest Prestige / 明威將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太建八年 · Western Year: AD 576
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0032
  • Label: assistant in the Court Tribunal / 廷尉平 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0012
  • Label: attendant-in-ordinary / 給事中 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0034

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: supremely filial · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0010

References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 32Volume 32: Filial Piety · 19 passages
于時甚寒,冰雪交下,老弱凍死者填滿溝塹‵不害行哭道路,遠近尋求,無所不至,遇見死人溝水中,即投身而下,扶捧閱視,舉體凍濕,水漿不入口,號泣不輟聲,如是者七日,始得母屍。 The season was bitterly cold; ice and snow fell together, and the old and weak who had frozen to death filled ditches and moats. Buhai walked the roads weeping and searched near and far without rest. Whenever he came upon a corpse in a ditch or stream he threw himself down, lifted and examined the body, his whole person frozen and soaked. He took no food or drink, and his cries never ceased. After seven days thus he found his mother's corpse.
Book of Liang, Chapter 4Volume 4: Emperor Jianwen · 2 passages