Ancient China · Disciple of Confucius

Gao Chai 高柴

Gāo Chái

Attested c. BC 521 - BC 450

Passages: 2
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Gao Chai was a Disciple of Confucius.

Life and dates

Attested activity

c. BC 521 to c. BC 480 Gao Chai (traditionally born c. BC 521)
Strongly inferred · Book of Song 73, passage 87
BC 521 to BC 450 高柴
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 274

Key source chapters

Book of Liang, Chapter 47 Volume 47: Filial Acts 1 passage
Book of Song, Chapter 73 Volume 73 Biographies 33: Yan Yanzhi 1 passage

Events and relationships

Cited as a model of filial and disciplined conduct
AD 426 to AD 433 元嘉三年後庭誥引述 · Literary comparison · Exemplar
Dated from the passage context · Book of Song 73, passages 41, 62, 87
Relation Student of · Person Confucius (孔子)
Strongly inferred · Book of Liang 47, passage 274

Assessments and attributes

Assessment exemplary filial figure invoked in Household Admonitions · Mode quoted-document Source Person Id Yan Yanzhi (顏延之)
Directly stated · Book of Song 73, passage 87
Assessment filial exemplar under the sage's teaching · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Liang 47, passage 274

References in the histories

Book of Liang, Chapter 47Volume 47: Filial Acts · 1 passage

高柴、仲由伏膺聖教，曾參、閔損虔恭孝道，或水漿不入口，泣血終年，豈不知創鉅痛深，《蓼莪》慕切？ Gao Chai and Zhong You followed the sage; Zeng Shen and Min Sun were reverently filial—some took no food, some wept blood a year: did they not know wound and longing in "Luxuriant Reeds"?

Book of Song, Chapter 73Volume 73 Biographies 33: Yan Yanzhi · 1 passage

儻知恩意相生，情理相出，可使家有參、柴，人皆由、損。 If you grasp that kindness and intent breed one another and that principle and feeling arise together, your household may hold men like Zeng Shen and Gao Chai, and every man be a Zhong You or Min Sun.