Yu Yuan 虞愿

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0002

Roles

• Official
• Scholar

Family

• Descendant of Yu Ben (虞賚)
  Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Yu Wangzhi (虞望之)
• Sibling of Yu Ji (虞季)
  Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: younger
• Child of Yu Wangzhi (虞望之)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
• Child of Mother of Yu Yuan
  Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother

Career and standing

• Action: appointed after resigning to care for his elderly mother · Appointments: General of the Rear Army / 後軍將軍
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0078
• Action: appointed and transferred · Appointments: General of Valiant Cavalry / 驍騎將軍, Minister of Justice / 廷尉, Libationer of the Eastern Pavilion / 祭酒
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0085
• Action: appointed · Appointments: Grand Administrator of Jinping / 晉平太守
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0068
• Action: appointed · Appointments: Vice Director of the Imperial Ancestral Temple / 太常丞, Director in the Sacrifices Office / 尚書祠部郎, Palace Attendant in the Emergent Cavalry / 通直散騎侍郎, Director of Rectitude for Five Commanderies / 五郡中正
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0041
• Action: promoted and transferred · Appointments: Regular Attendant of the Prince of Xiangdong's household / 湘東王國常侍, Ink-Office Adjutant under the Prince of Xunyang / 潯陽王府墨曹參軍 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉末 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Western Year: AD 453
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0039
• Action: promoted for prolonged sickbed attendance · Appointments: Regular Palace Attendant / 正員郎
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0067
• Action: promoted · Appointments: Concurrent Director in the Secretariat / 兼中書郎
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0057
• Action: promoted · Appointments: Director in the Secretariat / 中書郎, Libationer of the Eastern Pavilion / 東觀祭酒
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0082
• Status: office · Action: resigned to care for elderly mother
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0078
• Status: court attendance · Action: restored the same day because of old favor · Authority Person Id: Emperor Ming of Song (宋明帝)
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0051
• Action: driven from the hall by imperial order after remonstrating · Authority Person Id: Emperor Ming of Song (宋明帝)
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0050

Places and affiliations

• Place: Yuyao in Kuaiji / 會稽餘姚
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0035

Learning and skills

• Institution: commandery school / 學堂 · Action: founded and taught
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0070
• Institution: Imperial Academy / 國子 · Status: student · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉末 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Western Year: AD 453
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0039
• Subjects: Confucian administration, broad learning · Level: learned
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0040

Works and attributed material

• Work: Discussions and Questions on the Five Classics / 五經論問 · Relation: author
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0089
• Work: several dozen essays / 文翰數十篇 · Relation: author
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0089
• Work: Records of Kuaiji / 會稽記 · Relation: compiler
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0089
• Kind: remonstrance · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Emperor Ming of Song (宋明帝) · Statement: The temple was funded by people selling sons and pawning wives; Buddha would grieve, and the act was sinful rather than meritorious.
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0048
• Kind: remonstrance · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Emperor Ming of Song (宋明帝) · Statement: Yao taught the game to Danzhu; it was not a suitable pastime for a sovereign.
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0055

Events and relationships

• Kind: medical-attendance · Action: attended Emperor Ming throughout his illness · Other Person Id: Emperor Ming of Song (宋明帝)
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0058, nanqishu:053:s0067
• Kind: dynastic-loyalty · Action: bowed farewell in tears when Song imperial tablets were moved to the Ruyin temple
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0086
• Kind: administrative-redress · Action: intercepted and returned commoners' sons and daughters-in-law seized as debt collateral by his predecessor
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0069
• Kind: mourning-travel · Action: returned east without waiting for imperial permission after his brother's death
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0084
• Kind: auspicious-sight · Action: saw the Yue King's Stone entirely clear despite tradition that only an incorrupt administrator could see it
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0074, nanqishu:053:s0075, nanqishu:053:s0076
• Kind: animal-mercy · Action: twice released a medicinal snake farther into the mountains until it did not return
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0071, nanqishu:053:s0072, nanqishu:053:s0073
• Relation: former-retainer-of · Person Id: Emperor Ming of Song (宋明帝)
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0039, nanqishu:053:s0040, nanqishu:053:s0086

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: commentators attributed the snake episode to his compassionate heart · Provenance: Mode: commentator-judgment
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0073
• Assessment: did not seek personal enrichment while governing Jinping · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0068
• Assessment: often opposed the emperor's wishes yet received exceptional rewards · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0056
• Kind: childhood-conduct · Statement: as a small child alone refrained from taking his grandfather's winter oranges
  Explicit · nanqishu:053:s0038