Sui and Tang · Official and Filial Son

Du Gao 杜羔

Attested c. AD 785

Passages: 8
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Du Gao was an official and Filial Son.

Life and dates

Death

died and was posthumously honored
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 160

Attested activity

c. AD 785 貞元初
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 147

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Father of Du Gao (羔父)
father 父
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 148
Child of Mother of Du Gao (羔母)
mother 母
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 148
Parent of Du Zhongli (杜中立)
son 子
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 161
Kin of Du Jian (杜兼)
younger cousin 從弟
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 147

Career and standing

Wannian magistrate 萬年令
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 153
Zhenwu military governor 振武節度使
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 159
Right Vice Director 尚書右僕射
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 160
Removed from office
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 157

Events and relationships

Found and supported his mother and located his father's tomb
Filial piety
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 148

Assessments and attributes

Assessment filial and upright · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 158

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 147

References in the histories

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History

8 passages

New Book of Tang, Chapter 172Volume 172 Biographies 97: Yu, Wang, Two Du's, Fan · 8 passages

從弟羔，貞元初及進士第，有至性。 His cousin Gao took the metropolitan degree early in the Zhenyuan reign and was distinguished by uncommon filial devotion.

父死河北，母更兵亂，不知所之，羔憂號終日。 His father died in Hebei; amid renewed warfare his mother vanished without trace, and Gao mourned and cried out the whole day long.

及兼為澤潞判官，鞫獄，有媼辨對不凡，乃羔母，因得奉養。 While Jian held a judgeship on the Ze-Lu circuit and was hearing a case, an old woman's sharp replies revealed her as Gao's long-lost mother, and he was able to take her home and care for her.

羔奔往，亦有耆老識其壟，因是得葬。 Gao hurried to the spot; village elders still knew the mound, and at last he could lay his father properly to rest.

羔等辯列尤苦，尹不為縱。 Gao and his colleagues pleaded their case with bitter earnestness, yet the governor refused to relent.

羔乃謁宰相，請移散官。 Gao went to the chief ministers and asked to be moved to an inactive honorary rank.

憲宗遣中使問狀，具對府政苛細，力不堪奉。 Xianzong dispatched an imperial messenger to investigate; Gao explained in full that the prefect's rule was petty and exacting beyond what he could endure.

議者以羔為直。 Opinion held that Gao had acted with integrity.