Yu Wanzhi 虞玩之

Other names

Family

• Descendant of Zong (宗)
  grandfather 祖 · paternal line · 2 generations
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 4
• Child of Mei (玫)
  father 父 · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 5

• Kinship Role brothers-of-dagong-mourning-grade · Count 42
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 91
• Kinship Role parents · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 106-107

Career and standing

• director of retainers for Jinxi 晉熙國郎中令
  AD 465 to AD 471 泰始中 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 9
• gentleman of the ministry of works 尚書起部郎
  AD 465 to AD 471 泰始中 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 9
• unimpeded-attendant gentleman 通直郎
  AD 465 to AD 471 泰始中 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 9
• fierce-cavalry staff adviser 驃騎諮議參軍
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 20
• gentleman of the yellow gate 黃門郎
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 24
• rampant-cavalry general 驍騎將軍
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 24

Places and affiliations

• Polity Eastern Jin 晉 · Relation Born under
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 84
• Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 24-26
• Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 297, 300
• Polity Southern Qi 齊 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 71, 84
• Polity Id liu-song · Relation Associated with
  Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 118
• Polity Id liu-song · Relation Lived under
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 84-85

Learning and skills

• Subject books and histories 書史
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 6
• Skill clerkly writing 刀筆 · Level skilled
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 6

Works and attributed material

• Memorial · Author · Direct quotation · With Founding Sovereign (太祖)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 40-61
• Memorial · Author · Direct quotation · Mode self-report Speaker Yu Wanzhi (虞玩之)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 62-70, 82-107
• Memorial · Author · Paraphrased
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 13
• Speech · Speaker · With Founding Sovereign (太祖) · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 19

Events and relationships

• Arrested and prosecuted
  Legal · Prosecutor · With Zhu Renmi (朱仁彌)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 7
• Helped raise the kings
  Political · Supporter
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 300
• Memorialized on treasury shortfalls
  Political · Memorialist
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 13-14
• Ordered to examine registers
  AD 479 卽位 · Administrative · Commissioner · With Fu Jianyi (傅堅意)
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 25
• Requested retirement
  Petition · Author
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 82, 105, 108
• Spoke harshly of envoy appointment
  Speech · Speaker · With Kong Can (孔襜)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 110

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment as right vice director already able to accumulate gold and grain · Mode named-source-report Speaker Founding Sovereign (太祖)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 11-12
• Assessment famed for grace of table talk and equally favored with Ren Xia · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 21
• Assessment fond of judging people for good or ill · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 109
• Assessment knew sufficiency, yet his argument never caught the light · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 297
• deafness and dim sight; legs cannot support the body; breath in broken gasps
  Physical description
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 88-89
• Item clogs 屐 · Relation Possessed
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 16-17, 19

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 3, 71
• about thirty years in service since Yuanjia 28 appointment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 85
• born under Jin, grew up under Song, grew old under Qi; three dynasties, two overturnings of court and market
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 84
• Bought clogs on first appointment as northern-campaign staff aide and wore them twenty years without replacing them, citing poverty
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 19