Overview
Yuan Emperor was a ruler.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Other names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
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| Personal name |
Sima Rui |
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Life and dates
Attested activity
AD 307 to AD 317 元帝初鎮鄴
AD 318 及帝即位，太興初
AD 317 及帝為晉王
Family
- Kinship Role ancestors · Count 4 · Kinship Term four ancestors 四祖 · Mode quoted-document Speaker Guo Pu (璞)
Career and standing
Prince of Jin 晉王
AD 317 及帝為晉王 · Became
AD 318 及帝即位，太興初
Works and attributed material
Events and relationships
Again ordered Guo Pu to divine
AD 317 及帝為晉王 · Divination commission
· Commissioner
· With Guo Pu (璞) Made Guo Pu assistant editorial officer
Present when Wang Dao ordered Guo Pu to divine
AD 307 to AD 317 元帝初鎮鄴 · Divination commission
· Principal
· With Guo Pu (璞)
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment prized Guo Pu highly · With Guo Pu (璞) · Mode historian-judgment
- Assessment upright, bright, humane, and forgiving; embodies acting by not acting · Mode quoted-document Speaker Guo Pu (璞)
References in the histories
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Book of Jin, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 42: Guo Pu; Ge Hong · 13 passages
時元帝初鎮鄴，導令璞筮之，遇《咸》之《井》，璞曰：「東北郡縣有『武』名者，當出鐸，以著受命之符。
While Yuan Emperor still held Ye, Wang Dao had Guo Pu cast lots; the hexagram ran Concord turning into Well: "A county northeast bearing the syllable Wu will yield bronze clappers proving Heaven's mandate.
及帝為晉王，又使璞筮，遇《豫》之《睽》，璞曰：「會稽當出鐘，以告成功，上有勒銘，應在人家井泥中得之。
After Sima Rui became Jin prince Guo Pu cast again; Rest turning into Opposition foretold: "Kuaiji will yield a triumph bell bearing an inscription dredged from household wells.
及帝即位，太興初，會稽剡縣人果于井中得一鐘，長七寸二分，口徑四寸半，上有古文奇書十八字，云「會稽嶽命」，余字時人莫識之。
After the emperor ascended the throne, early in Taixing, people of Shan county in Kuaiji indeed found a bell in a well. It was seven cun and two fen long, its mouth was four and a half cun across, and on it were eighteen strange archaic characters saying "Kuaiji Peak Mandate"; the people of the time did not recognize the remaining characters.
帝甚重之。
The emperor prized him highly.
後復作《南郊賦》，帝見而嘉之，以為著作佐郎。
Later he again composed the Southern Suburb Fu; the emperor saw and praised it and appointed him Assistant in the Imperial Library.
明皇天所以保祐金家，子愛陛下，屢見災異，殷勤無已。
This shows clearly that august Heaven protects the Metal house and loves Your Majesty like a son, repeatedly displaying disasters and anomalies with unceasing earnestness.
陛下宜側身思懼，以應靈譴。
Your Majesty should turn inward in fear and reflection in order to answer the numinous rebuke.
不然，恐將來必有愆陽苦雨之災，崩震薄蝕之變，狂狡蠢戾之妖，以益陛下旰食之勞也。
Otherwise, I fear that in the future there will certainly be disasters of excessive yang and bitter rains, changes of collapse, thunder, and eclipses, and portents of mad and perverse creatures, adding to Your Majesty's labor of eating late.
臣竊觀陛下貞明仁恕，體之自然，天假其祚，奄有區夏，啟重光於已昧，廓四祖之遐武，祥靈表瑞，人鬼獻謀，應天順時，殆不尚此。
I privately observe that Your Majesty is upright, bright, humane, and forgiving, embodying these things naturally; Heaven has granted You its fortune, and You possess all the central lands, opened renewed radiance when matters had grown dim, and enlarged the distant martial work of the four ancestors; auspicious spirits have shown omens, men and spirits have offered plans, and in responding to Heaven and following the time, nothing could surpass this.
然陛下即位以來，中興之化未闡，雖躬綜萬機，勞逾日昃，玄澤未加於群生，聲教未被乎宇宙，臣主未甯於上，黔細未輯於下，《鴻雁》之詠不興，康衢之歌不作者，何也？
Yet since Your Majesty ascended the throne, the transformation of restoration has not been made clear; though You personally manage ten thousand affairs and labor past sundown, dark beneficence has not reached the many lives, instruction has not covered the universe, lord and ministers are not at peace above, and the common people are not gathered below. Why are the songs of Hongyan not raised and the songs of the broad road not composed?
臣竊為陛下惜之。
I privately grieve over this for Your Majesty.
夫無為而為之，不宰以宰之，固陛下之所體者也。
To act by not acting and govern by not mastering is surely what Your Majesty embodies.
願陛下少留神鑒，賜察臣言。
I beg Your Majesty to slightly retain Your divine discernment and grant examination to my words.