Yuan · Family Member

Younger son of Qin Run 秦閏夫次子

Attested AD 1358

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Younger son of Qin Run was a Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1358 至正十八年
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 201, passage 171

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Lady Chai (柴氏)
bore a son 有子
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 166
Sibling of Elder son of Qin Run (秦閏夫長子)
elder brother 兄 · Paternal half siblings
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 172
Child of Qin Run (秦閏夫)
father 父
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 166

Career and standing

Pardoned
AD 1358 至正十八年 · Spared death
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 176

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 172

Events and relationships

Refused to shift guilt onto his brother; did not recant under torture
Legal · Self accuser
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passages 172-173

Assessments and attributes

Assessment faced death to fulfill his mother's wish · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Yuan 201, passage 175

References in the histories

History of Yuan, Chapter 201Volume 201 Biographies 88: Exemplary Women 2 · 5 passages

未幾柴氏有子，閏夫病且死，囑柴氏曰：「我病不復起，家貧，惟二幼子，汝能撫其成立，我死亦無憾矣。」 Soon Lady Chai bore a son. Run fell mortally ill and told her, "I won't recover. We're poor, with only these two little boys. Raise them well and I'll die content."

柴氏引次子詣官泣訴曰：「往從惡者，吾次子，非吾長子也。」 Lady Chai brought her younger son to the magistrate in tears and claimed, "The son who followed the rebels was my younger boy, not the elder."

次子曰：「我之罪可加於兄乎！」 The younger son cried, "How can my guilt be put on my brother!"

官反疑次子非柴氏所出，訊之他囚，始得其情。 Officials doubted the younger son was really hers and questioned other prisoners until the truth came out.

遂釋免其長子，而次子亦得不死。 They released the elder son, and the younger was spared as well.