Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official

Yu Cong 虞悰

Yú Cóng

c. AD 435 - AD 499

Passages: 7
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yu Cong was an official.

Life and dates

Death

AD 499 永元元年
Age 65
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passages 223-224

Age

65
Reckoning Sui
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passage 224

Attested activity

AD 499 永元元年
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passage 223
AD 494 隆昌元年
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passage 209
AD 493 鬱林立
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passage 207

Family

Kin of Yu Mao (虞袤)
younger cousin 從弟 · paternal line
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passage 226

Places and affiliations

Southern Qi 南齊
Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passage 207
At Yuyao, Kuaiji 會稽餘姚
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 37, passage 207

Works and attributed material

Memorial · Author
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passages 218-220
Speech · Speaker · With Wang Yan (王晏)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passages 214-215
Speech · Speaker
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 37, passage 210

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 37Volume 37 Biographies 18: Dao Hui, Liu Quan, Yu Cong, Hu Xiezhi · 7 passages

鬱林立，改領右軍將軍，揚州大中正，兼大匠卿。 When Emperor Yulin came to the throne, Cong was transferred to concurrent Right Army General, Grand Rectifier of Yang Province, and concurrently Chamberlain for the Imperial Workshops.

鬱林廢，悰竊歎曰：「王、徐遂縛袴廢天子，天下豈有此理邪？」 When Emperor Yulin was deposed, Cong sighed to himself: "Wang and Xu have actually bound up their trousers and deposed the Son of Heaven—has the world ever known such a thing?"

明帝立，悰稱疾不陪位。 When Emperor Ming of Qi came to the throne, Cong pleaded illness and did not attend the enthronement.

帝使尚書令王晏賫廢立事示悰，以悰舊人，引參佐命。 The emperor sent Minister of Education Wang Yan to show Cong the record of the deposition and enthronement and, as an old associate, sought to draw him into assisting the new regime.

悰謂晏曰：「主上聖明，公卿戮力，寧假朽老以匡贊惟新乎？ Cong said to Yan: "Our lord is sage and enlightened, and the nobles and ministers are all doing their part—why borrow a worn-out old man to help usher in the new order?

悰稱疾篤還東，上表曰：「臣族陋海區，身微稽土，猥屬興運，荷竊稠私，徒越星紀，終慚報答。 Cong claimed serious illness and returned east, memorializing: "Your servant's clan is humble in this coastal region; I am a slight man of Kuaiji. I have undeservedly lived in a time of rising fortune and received thick private favor, yet have only passed one twelve-year cycle and remain ashamed that I cannot repay it.

悰性敦實，與人知識，必相存訪，親疏皆有終始，世以此稱之。 Cong was sincere and steadfast; with everyone he knew he kept up mutual visits, treating kin and strangers alike with constancy from first to last, and the age praised him for it.