Overview
You Meng was a Musician and Court Jester.
Life and dates
Attested activity
- BC 613 to BC 591 居數年Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passage 66
- BC 613 to BC 591 楚莊王之時Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passages 45, 47
- BC 613 to BC 591 歲餘Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passages 70-71
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
- Spouse of Wife of You Meng (優孟之婦)wife 婦Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passages 73, 77
Career and standing
- entertainer-musician of Chu 楚之樂人Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passage 45
- Chancellor of Chu 楚相BC 613 to BC 591 三日後 · Declined · Negated trueDirectly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passage 77
- Chancellor of Chu 楚相BC 613 to BC 591 三日 · OfferedDirectly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passages 72-73
Places and affiliations
- Polity Chu 楚 · Relation ServedDirectly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passage 45
Learning and skills
- Skill eloquence and comic remonstrance 多辯，談笑諷諫 · Level renownedDirectly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passage 46
Works and attributed material
- Song · Speaker · Direct quotation · Mode quotation Speaker You Meng (優孟)Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passages 81-87
- Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Son of Sun Shuao (孫叔敖之子) · Mode quotation Speaker You Meng (優孟)Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passage 68
- Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With King Zhuang of Chu (楚莊王) · Mode quotation Speaker You Meng (優孟)Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passages 54, 56-57, 60-61, 73
- Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Mode quotation Speaker You Meng (優孟)Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passages 77-80
Events and relationships
- Came forward to offer a toastRitual · CourtierDirectly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passage 71
- Donned Sun Shuao's robes and cap and practiced his bearing for more than a yearDirectly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passages 69-70
- Entered the hall and wailed over the horse burialPolitical · RemonstrantDirectly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passages 51-52
- Returned after three daysPolitical · CourtierDirectly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passage 75
- Relation Treated courteously by · Person Sun Shuao (孫叔敖)Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passage 63
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment understood the art of speaking at the right moment · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passage 90
- stood eight chi tallPhysical descriptionDirectly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passage 46
Source notes
- impersonation of Sun Shuao so perfect that King Zhuang and attendants could not tell them apartDirectly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passage 70
References in the histories
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