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Yu Cong 虞悰

Yú Cóng

Attested AD 477 - AD 490

Passages: 15
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yu Cong was an official.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Jingyu	景豫

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 477 to AD 490 昇明至永明
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passages 189, 199

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Descendant of Yu Xiaofu (虞嘯父)
grandfather 祖 · paternal line · 2 generations
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passage 183
Child of Yu Xiuzhi (虞秀之)
father 父 · paternal line
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passage 184

Places and affiliations

Southern Qi 南齊
Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passage 190
At Yuyao, Kuaiji 會稽餘姚
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passage 182

Learning and skills

Skill cuisine 滋味 · Level renowned
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passage 195

Works and attributed material

Food Notes 食疏
Relation Cited · With He Zeng (何曾)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passage 197
Speech · Speaker · With Xiao Yi (蕭嶷)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passage 197

Events and relationships

Relation Old friend of · Person Emperor Wu of Southern Qi (齊武帝)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passage 188

References in the histories

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History

15 passages

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 37Volume 37 Biographies 18: Dao Hui, Liu Quan, Yu Cong, Hu Xiezhi · 15 passages

虞悰 Yu Cong

虞悰字景豫，會稽餘姚人也。 Yu Cong, styled Jingyu, was a man of Yuyao in Kuaiji.

悰少而謹敕，有至性。 From youth Cong was careful and disciplined, with deep filial devotion.

秀之於都亡，悰東出奔喪，水漿不入口。 When Xiuzhi died in the capital, Cong traveled east to mourn and took neither food nor drink.

初，世祖始從官，家尚貧薄，悰推國士之眷，數相分與，每行，必呼上同載，上甚德之。 At first, when the future Emperor Wu was just entering official life, his family was still poor; Cong treated him with the affection due a true friend of the realm, often sharing what he had with him; whenever he traveled he always called the future emperor to ride with him, and the emperor was deeply grateful.

昇明中，世祖爲中軍，引悰爲諮議參軍，遣吏部郎江謐持手書謂悰曰：「今因江吏郎有白，以君情顧，意欲相屈。」 During the Shengming era, when the future Emperor Wu commanded the Central Army, he recruited Cong as advisory staff officer and sent Director of the Ministry of Personnel Jiang Mi with a personal letter saying, "On Director Jiang's report, and mindful of your old regard, I wish to ask you to serve."

悰治家富殖，奴婢無游手，雖在南土，而會稽海味無不畢致焉。 Cong ran his household to great wealth; among servants and maids none were idle; though he lived in the south, every sort of Kuaiji seafood was always supplied.

悰善爲滋味，和齊皆有方法。 Cong was skilled in flavor; his blending and seasoning all had method.

豫章王嶷盛饌享賔，謂悰曰：「今日肴羞，寧有所遺不？」 Prince Yi of Yuzhang held a lavish feast for guests and said to Cong, "Of today's dishes, is anything missing?"

悰曰：「恨無黃頷臛，何曾《食疏》所載也。」 Cong said, "Only yellow-jaw stew is missing—the dish recorded in He Zeng's 《Food Notes》."

永明八年，大水，百官戎服救太廟，悰朱衣乘車鹵簿，於宣陽門外行馬內驅打人，爲有司所奏，見原。 In the eighth year of Yongming, during severe floods, all officials wore military dress to aid the Imperial Ancestral Temple; Cong, in vermilion robes with full escort, drove people within the riding grounds at Xuanyang Gate; the responsible officials impeached him, and he was pardoned.

上以悰布衣之舊，從容謂悰曰：「我當令卿復祖業。」 The emperor, mindful of their old friendship from commoner days, said easily to Cong, "I shall have you restore your grandfather's career."

世祖幸芳林園，就悰求扁米。 Emperor Wu visited the Fragrant Grove Park and asked Cong for polished rice.

悰獻及雜肴數十轝，太官鼎味不及也。 Cong sent it along with dozens of cartloads of assorted delicacies that outshone even the Imperial Kitchen's finest dishes.

上就悰求諸飲食方，悰秘不肯出，上醉後體不快，悰乃獻醒酒鯖鮓一方而已。 The emperor asked Cong for his culinary recipes, but Cong kept them secret. When the emperor drank too much and felt ill, Cong offered only a single recipe for hangover-curing pickled mackerel.