Gao Gu (高谷) | 24 Histories

Overview

Gao Gu was an official and Grand Secretary.

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Shiyong	世用	Shiyong
Posthumous name	Wenyi	文義	Wenyi

AD 1460 天順四年正月
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 169, passage 33
AD 1450 景泰初
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 169, passage 2
AD 1445 正統十年
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 169, passage 255
AD 1415 永樂十三年
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 169, passage 252
AD 1449 to AD 1457 當英、景之間
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 169, passages 249-250

Grand Academician of the Hall of Cultivating Virtue 謹身殿大學士
AD 1456 七年 · Appointed
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 17
Junior Guardian and Grand Secretary of the Eastern Pavilion 少保、東閣大學士
AD 1451 二年 · Appointed
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 14
Minister 尚書
AD 1450 景泰初 · Appointed
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 2
Right Vice Minister of Works 工部右侍郎
AD 1445 正統十年 · Appointed
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 255
Secretariat Drafter 中書舍人
AD 1415 永樂十三年 · Appointed
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 252
Grand Tutor of the Heir Apparent 太子太傅
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 15

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Grand Secretariat 內閣
AD 1445 正統十年 · Entered
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 255
Grand Guardian 太保
AD 1465 成化初 · Posthumously granted
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 35
Entered
AD 1457 英宗復位 · Retirement
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 27

Ming 明
Relation Served
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 252
At Xinghua in Yangzhou 揚州興化
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 251
AD 1450 to AD 1456 景泰
At Yingtian and Fengyang 應天、鳳陽 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 16

Earned
AD 1415 永樂十三年 · Credential Presented Scholar 進士
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 252

Memorial · Author
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 12
Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passages 4, 7-8, 11, 24-25

earnest over welcome rites 惓惓於迎駕之儀
AD 1449 to AD 1457 當英、景之間 · Ritual · Advocate · Earnest over welcome rites for the emperor · With Hu Ying (胡濙)
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passages 249-250
Saved Lin Cong from death
Legal · Advocate · With Lin Cong (林聰)
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 22
Urged lavish welcome for Yingzong
Political · Advocate · With Gong Suirong (龔遂榮)
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passages 3-4, 12
Relation Colleague of · Person Wang Zhi (王直)
Strongly inferred · History of Ming 169, passages 248, 250
Relation Recommender of · Person Wang Wen (王文)
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 20
Relation Rival of · Person Wang Wen (王文)
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 20

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Assessment held to correct positions and kept one principle to the end; true elder of the state · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 250
Assessment man of standing / elder · Mode named-speech Speaker Emperor Yingzong (英宗)
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 28
Assessment purity and uprightness; stature of a great minister · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 248
Assessment upright and steadfast in argument · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Ming 169, passage 19