Yuan · Official and Statesman

Youren 有壬

Attested AD 1324 - AD 1347

Passages
20
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

Youren was an official and Statesman.

PeriodYuan
IdentityHistorical · Male

Life and dates

Attested activity

Show 9 more source-backed claims

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Career and standing

Show 18 more source-backed claims

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Show 3 more source-backed claims

Events and relationships

Show 18 more source-backed claims

Assessments and attributes

Source notes

References in the histories

20 passages

History of Yuan, Chapter 182Volume 182 Biographies 69: Zhang Qiyan, ŌUyang Xuan, Xu Youren, Song Ben, Xie Duan · 20 passages
Open chapter
眾弗之從，有壬曰：「今制，封贈祖父母，降於父母一等，蓋推恩之法，近重而遠輕，今尊皇太后為太皇太后，是推而遠之，乃反輕矣，豈所謂尊之者邪！」 The assembly would not listen. Youren said: "Under current law, honors granted to grandparents rank one grade below those granted to parents. Favor is meant to weigh most heavily on those nearest. Making the empress dowager a grand empress dowager pushes the honor outward and actually makes it lighter. Is that what honoring her means!"
明年，改元至正，有壬極論帝當親祠太廟，母后虛位，徽政院當罷，改元命相當合為上詔，冗職當沙汰，錢糧當裁節，如此之類，不一而足。 The next year the era name was changed to Zhizheng. Youren argued forcefully that the emperor should sacrifice at the ancestral temple in person, that the empress dowager's seat should not be left vacant, that the Huizheng Office should be abolished, that the change of era and appointment of chancellors should be issued in one supreme edict, that redundant offices should be cut, and that spending on money and grain should be reduced—proposals of this kind, and more besides.