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Yuan Shu 袁淑

Yuán Shū

Died AD 453

Passages
30
Chapters
4
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Yuan Shu as an administrator, aristocrat, commentator, and family member. This record brings together 30 passages from 4 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yuan Shu 袁淑 Yuán Shū
Title Director Yuan 袁司直
Posthumous Duke of Loyal Integrity 忠憲公 Zhōngxiàn gōng
Title Grand Marshal 太尉
Personal name Shu 淑 Shū
Given Shu 淑 Shū
Courtesy Yangyuan 陽源
Courtesy Yangyuan 陽源 Yángyuán
Surname Yuan 袁 Yuán
Surname Yuan 袁
Personal name Yuan Shu 袁淑 Yuán Shū
Personal Yuan Shu 袁淑
Alternate Yuan Yangyuan 袁陽源

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Aristocrat
  • Commentator
  • Family Member
  • Military Officer
  • Named Individual
  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: execution · Place: outside Fenghua Gate / 奉化門外 · Authority Person Id: Liu Shao (劉劭) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元兇將為弑逆 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 30 · Western Year: AD 453
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0108, songshu:070:s0109

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 元嘉二十六年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 449
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0015
  • Source Date: Text: 其秋 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 449
    Explicit event contextual date · songshu:070:s0015, songshu:070:s0016
  • Source Date: Text: 元兇將為弑逆 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 30 · Western Year: AD 453
    Explicit event contextual date · songshu:070:s0090
  • Source Date: Text: 元嘉三十年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 30 · Western Year: AD 453
    Strongly inferred · songshu:062:s0272, songshu:062:s0258
  • Source Date: Text: 元嘉中 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Western Interval: Start: AD 424 · End: AD 453
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:007:s0023
  • Source Date: Text: 時索虜南侵，遂至瓜步 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Western Year: AD 450
    Explicit event contextual date · songshu:070:s0023
  • Source Date: Text: 世祖即位 · Western Year: AD 453
    Explicit event contextual date · songshu:070:s0111
  • Source Date: Text: 太尉淑兄子 · Western Year: AD 453
    Explicit event contextual date · songshu:089:s0002
  • Western Interval: Start: AD 424 · End: AD 453 · Source Date: Text: 微為文古甚，頗抑揚，袁淑見之，謂
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0132

Family

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  • Kin of Yuan Zhan (袁湛)
    Kinship Term: paternal uncle / 伯 · Subject Role: paternal-uncle · Object Role: nephew · Generation Distance: 1 · Line: paternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Yuan Bao (袁豹)
  • Kin of Yuan Can (袁粲)
    Kinship Term: brother's son / nephew / 兄子 · Subject Role: paternal-uncle · Object Role: nephew · Line: paternal · Generation Distance: 1
  • Child of Grandfather of Yuan Can (袁粲祖父)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: grandfather · Object Role: grandson · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Child of Grandmother of Yuan Can (袁粲祖母)
    Kinship Term: paternal grandmother / 祖母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: grandmother · Object Role: grandson · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Kin of Liu Zhan (劉湛)
    Kinship Term: maternal cousin / 從母兄 · Subject Role: maternal-cousin · Object Role: maternal-cousin · Subject Relative Age: elder · Line: maternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Maternal Aunt of Yuan Shu, Mother of Yuan Shu
  • Kin of Wang Hong (王弘)
    Kinship Term: uncle-by-marriage / 姑夫 · Subject Role: uncle-by-marriage · Object Role: nephew-by-marriage · Intermediary Person Ids: Aunt of Yuan Shu
  • Sibling of Yuan Zhuo (袁濯)
    Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: uncertain · Line: paternal
  • Child of Yuan Bao (袁豹)
    Kinship Term: youngest son / 少子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Child of Mother of Yuan Shu
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Yuan Ji (袁幾)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Yuan Leng (袁稜)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Yuan Biao (袁標)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Yuan Ai (袁敳)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Yuan Ning (袁凝)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

  • Label: Gentleman of the Ministry of Personnel / 尚書吏部郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉二十六年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 449
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0015
  • Label: Administrator of Southern Donghai / 南東海太守 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0019
  • Label: Administrator of Xuancheng / 宣城太守 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0013
  • Label: Chief Clerk of the Pacification of the North to the Prince of Shixing / 始興王征北長史 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0019
  • Label: Consultation Officer / 諮議參軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0011
  • Label: Director of the Censorate / 禦史中丞 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0022
  • Label: General of the Left Guard of the Heir Apparent / 太子左衛率 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0089
  • Label: Gentleman of the Secretariat / 中書侍郎 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0013
  • Label: Groom of the Heir Apparent / 太子洗馬 · Action: appointed · Negated: true · Note: declined for foot ailment
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0010
  • Label: Libationer of the Minister of Works / 司徒祭酒 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0007
  • Label: Palace Aide to the Heir Apparent / 太子中庶子 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0014
  • Label: provincial chief clerk / 本州主簿 · Action: appointed · Negated: true
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0006
  • Label: Right-army chief clerk to the Prince of Hengyang / 衡陽王義季右軍主簿 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0010
  • Label: Western Attendant of the Left in the Ministry of Works / 司徒左西屬 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0012
  • Label: Left Leader of the Heir's Household / 太子左率 · Action: held
    Explicit · liangshu:007:s0023
  • Label: Assistant in the Writing Office / 著作佐郎 · Action: offered · Negated: true
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0006
  • Label: Attendant of the Heir Apparent / 太子舍人 · Action: offered · Negated: true
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0006
  • Label: Director of Ceremonies / 太常 · Action: posthumously-honored
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0110
  • Label: Grand Commandant / 太尉 · Action: posthumously-honored
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0111
  • Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: posthumously-honored
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0111
  • Title: Duke of Loyal Integrity / 忠憲公 · Action: posthumously-granted
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0111
  • Status: dismissed · Action: entered · Reason: long illness / 久疾
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0009
  • Status: mourning-leave · Action: entered
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0013

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Statement: did not pursue narrow exegetical study but ranged broadly
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0005
  • Skill: literary composition / 屬文 · Level: forceful and brilliant
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0005
  • Skill: eloquent disputation / 才辯
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0005

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: delighted in grand exaggeration; often mocked · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0073
  • Assessment: integrity making historical records precious · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0127
  • Assessment: loyal unto death; unsurpassed among ancient martyrs · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Speaker Person Id: Emperor Xiaowu (孝武帝)
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0111
  • Kind: illness · Statement: foot ailment
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0010
  • Item: permanent household stipend / 長給稟祿 · Relation: bestowed
    Explicit · songshu:070:s0113

References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 7Volume 7: Empresses · 1 passage
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Book of Song, Chapter 62Volume 62 Biographies 22: Yang Xin, Zhang Fu, Wang Wei · 3 passages
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Book of Song, Chapter 70Volume 70 Biographies 30: Yuan Shu · 25 passages
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世祖即位，使顏延之為詔曰：「夫輕道重義，亟聞其教；世弊國危，希遇其人。自非達義之至，識正之深者，孰能抗心衞主，遺身固節者哉。故太子左衞率淑，文辯優洽，秉尚貞慤。當要逼之切，意色不橈，厲辭道逆，氣震凶黨。虐刃交至，取斃不移。古之懷忠隕難，未云出其右者。興言嗟悼，無廢乎心。宜在加禮，永旌宋有臣焉。可贈侍中、太尉，諡曰忠憲公。」 When Emperor Xiaowu took the throne, he had Yan Yanzhi draft an edict: "When the Way is slighted and righteousness weighed heavily, the teaching has long been heard; in an age of decay and a state in peril, such a person is rarely met. Unless one has reached the utmost in grasping righteousness and depth in knowing what is correct, who could brace the heart to guard his lord, leave the body, and hold fast to integrity? Former Left Guard General of the Heir Apparent Shu was eloquent and thorough and upheld pure sincerity. When coercion pressed hardest, his expression did not bend; with stern words he denounced rebellion, and his spirit shook the vicious faction. Cruel blades fell together, yet he met death without wavering. Among the loyal who fell in disaster in antiquity, none are said to surpass him. At these words we sigh and mourn, and our hearts cannot be unmoved. He deserves added honors, eternally displaying that Song had such a minister. He may be posthumously awarded Palace Attendant and Grand Commandant, with the posthumous title Duke of Loyal Integrity."
Book of Song, Chapter 89Volume 89 Biographies 49: Yuan Can · 1 passage
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