Gongyi Xiu 公儀休

Other names

Family

• Spouse of Wife of Gongyi Xiu (公儀子妻)
  wife 妻 · Divorced
  Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 312
• Spouse of Wife of Gongyi Xiu
  wife 家婦 · Ended
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 119, passage 49

Career and standing

• scholar-official / Erudite 博士
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 119, passage 37
• Chancellor of Lu 魯相
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 119, passage 38
• chancellor of Lu 相魯
  BC 407 to BC 376 公儀子相魯 · Held · At Lu 魯
  Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passages 312, 324
• Held
  Officeholder living on stipend only
  Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 312

Places and affiliations

• Polity Lu 魯 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passages 312, 324
• At Lu 魯 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passages 312, 324
• At Lu 魯 · Relation Served in
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 119, passage 37

Learning and skills

• Earned
  Credential distinguished disciple 高弟
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 119, passage 38

Works and attributed material

• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · 吾已食祿，又奪園夫紅女利乎
  Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 312
• Speech · Speaker
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 119, passages 43-46, 49

Events and relationships

• Barred salaried officials from competing with commoners for profit
  Policy · Chancellor
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 119, passage 40
• Refused a gift of fish
  Personal · Recipient
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 119, passages 41-46
• Sent away his wife and burned her loom after seeing fine household cloth
  Personal · Actor · With Wife of Gongyi Xiu
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 119, passages 49, 79
• Sent wife away
  Personal · Husband · With Wife of Gongyi Xiu (公儀子妻) · At his home 其家
  Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 312
• Upheld law and principle without arbitrary changes; officials corrected themselves
  Administration · Chancellor
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 119, passage 39
• Uprooted and discarded delicious garden mallows
  Personal · Actor
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 119, passage 48

Assessments and attributes

• 捨公儀休之相魯，亡可為者矣
  Assessment model-of-gentleman-conduct · Mode historian-judgment Speaker Dong Zhongshu (董仲舒)
  Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 324
• Assessment refused competing with farmers and weaving women for livelihood · Mode self-report Speaker Gongyi Xiu (公儀休)
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 119, passage 49
• Item garden mallows 園葵 · Relation Discarded
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 119, passage 48
• Item loom 機 · Relation Destroyed
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 119, passage 49

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Han 65, passage 312