Yuan · Official and Administrator

Buhua 不花

Bùhuā

First attested AD 1311; died AD 1328

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Buhua was an official and Administrator.

Life and dates

Death

AD 1328 天歷初
killed in battle 見殺
Directly stated · History of Yuan 179, passage 144

Attested activity

AD 1311 to AD 1320 仁宗朝
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 179, passage 136
AD 1328 天歷初
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 179, passage 141

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Lady Liu (劉氏)
mother 母
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 179, passages 133-134
Child of Yang Duoerzhi (楊朵兒只)
son 子
Directly stated · History of Yuan 179, passage 134

Career and standing

Vice Director of the Transmission Office 通政院判
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 179, passage 141
Grand Master for Exemplary Counsel 嘉議大夫
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · History of Yuan 179, passage 147

Learning and skills

Skill calligraphy 書 · Level skilled
Directly stated · History of Yuan 179, passage 135

References in the histories

History of Yuan, Chapter 179Volume 179 Biographies 66: He Sheng, Yang Duoerzhi, Xiao Baizhu · 6 passages

子不花。 His son was Buhua.

不花幼有才氣，能以禮自持，好讀書，善書。 Buhua showed talent even as a boy, conducted himself with propriety, loved reading, and was skilled in calligraphy.

初，仁宗聞而召之，應對稱旨，欲以為翰林直學士，力辭。 When Emperor Renzong heard of him and summoned him, his answers pleased the emperor, who wished to appoint him Direct Academician of the Hanlin Academy. Buhua firmly declined.

嘗出按部民，有殺子以誣怨者，獄成，不花讞之，曰：「以十歲兒，受十一創，且彼以斧殺怨，必盡其力，何創痕之淺，反不入膚耶！」 Once, while touring the people under his jurisdiction, he encountered a case in which a man had killed his own son to frame an enemy. The case had already been decided. Buhua reviewed the judgment and said, "A ten-year-old boy bore eleven wounds. If the killer had used an axe on his enemy, he would surely have struck with full force. Why are the wounds so shallow that they barely pierce the flesh?"

天歷初，文宗入繼大統，除通政院判，將行，值陝西諸軍拒詔，郡邑守吏率民逃之。 At the beginning of the Tianli reign, when Emperor Wenzong came to the throne, Buhua was appointed Vice Director of the Transmission Office. As he was about to depart, the armies of Shaanxi refused the imperial edict, and local officials fled with the people.

不花獨率眾出禦，呼西人諭之曰：「民者，祖宗艱難所致，國家大事，何與於民。 Buhua alone led his men out to resist. Addressing the western troops, he said, "The people were won by our ancestors through hardship. What have the great affairs of state to do with them?