Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Filial Exemplar

Gongsun Sengyuan 公孫僧遠

Gōngsūn Sēngyuǎn

Attested AD 481

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Gongsun Sengyuan was a Filial Exemplar.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 481 建元三年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 2

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Kin of Paternal Uncle of Gongsun Sengyuan (僧遠伯父)
father’s elder brother 伯父 · paternal line
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 26
Sibling of Elder Brother of Gongsun Sengyuan (僧遠兄)
elder brother 兄
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 29
Sibling of Sister of Gongsun Sengyuan (僧遠姊)
elder sister 姊
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 29
Child of Father of Gongsun Sengyuan (僧遠父)
father 父
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 26
Child of Mother of Gongsun Sengyuan (僧遠母)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 26
Sibling of Younger Brother of Gongsun Sengyuan (僧遠弟)
younger brother 弟
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 27

Places and affiliations

At Shan, Kuaiji · Relation Native of
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 2

Events and relationships

Indentured himself to fund his younger brother’s burial
Biographical · Participant
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 27
Reduced his own food to support his mother and paternal uncle during famine
Biographical · Participant
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 26
Sold himself to fund the marriages of his elder brother and sister
Biographical · Participant
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 29

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 55Volume 55 Biographies 36: Filial Piety · 4 passages

崔懷慎公孫僧遠吳欣之韓係伯孫淡華寶韓靈敏封延伯吳達之王文殊朱謙之蕭叡明樂頤江泌杜栖陸絳 Cui Huaishen, Gongsun Sengyuan, Wu Xinzhi, Han Xibo, Sun Dan, Hua Bao, Han Lingmin, Feng Yanbo, Wu Dazhi, Wang Wenshu, Zhu Qianzhi, Xiao Ruiming, Le Yi, Jiang Bi, Du Qi, and Lu Jiang

公孫僧遠，會稽剡人也。 Gongsun Sengyuan was from Shan county in Kuaiji.

治父喪至孝，事母及伯父甚謹，年饑穀貴，僧遠省餐減食，以供母、伯。 He was deeply filial in mourning his father and scrupulous in caring for his mother and uncle. In famine years, when grain was costly, he ate less himself so that they might have enough.

太祖即位，遣兼散騎常侍虞炎等十二部使行天下，建元三年，表列僧遠等二十三人，詔竝表門閭，蠲租稅。 When Emperor Gao took the throne he sent twelve missions, led by Yu Yan, Acting Regular Attendant of Scattered Cavalry, to tour the empire. In the third year of Jianyuan, memorials named Sengyuan and twenty-two others; an edict ordered commemorative placards erected at their gates and their rents and taxes remitted.