Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and General

Yu Yi 庾翼

First attested AD 317; died AD 345

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yu Yi was an official and General.

Life and dates

Death

AD 345 其年翼卒
Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 163

Attested activity

AD 317 to AD 324 庾翼幼時嘗令璞筮
Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 72, passage 157
AD 345 改元為永和…其年翼卒
Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 72, passages 161-163

Places and affiliations

Polity Id eastern-jin · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passages 157, 161

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passages 161-162

Events and relationships

Recognized Changshun as Yonghe
Omen · Subject
Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passages 161-162
Requested hexagram
Divination · Client · With Guo Pu (郭璞)
Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 157

References in the histories

Book of Jin, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 42: Guo Pu; Ge Hong · 3 passages

初，庾翼幼時嘗令璞筮公家及身，卦成，曰：「建元之末丘山傾，長順之初子凋零。」 Earlier, when Yu Yi was young, he once had Guo Pu divine the fate of the ducal house and himself. When the hexagram was completed, Pu said: "At the end of Jianyuan the hills will topple; at the beginning of Changshun the sons will wither."

及帝崩，何充改元為永和，庾翼歎曰：「天道精微，乃當如是。 When the emperor died and He Chong changed the era name to Yonghe, Yu Yi sighed: "The Way of Heaven is so subtle that it is actually like this.

其年翼卒。 Yu Yi died that year.