Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Filial Exemplar

Han Lingzhen 韓靈珍

Hán Língzhēn

Attested AD 479 - AD 502

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Han Lingzhen was a Filial Exemplar.

Life and dates

Death

Died
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 60

Attested activity

AD 479 to AD 502 南齊
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 59

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Sibling of Han Lingmin (韓靈敏)
elder brother 兄
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 59
Child of Mother of Han Lingmin and Han Lingzhen (靈敏靈珍母)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 59
Spouse of Lady Zhuo (卓氏)
wife 妻 · Widowed
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 60

Kinship Role sons · Count 0 · Negated true
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 60

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 55Volume 55 Biographies 36: Filial Piety · 2 passages

早孤，與兄靈珍竝有孝性，尋母又亡，家貧無以營凶，兄弟共種衆半畝，朝採衆子，暮已復生，以此遂辦葬事。 Orphaned young, he and his elder brother Lingzhen were both deeply filial. When their mother died the family was too poor for a funeral. Together they planted half an acre of amaranth, gathered the seeds each morning, and found the plants grown again by evening—enough to pay for the burial.

靈珍亡，無子，妻卓氏守節不嫁，慮家人奪其志，未嘗告歸，靈敏事之如母。 When Lingzhen died childless, his widow Lady Zhuo refused to remarry. Fearing the family would break her resolve, she never went home to visit; Lingmin served her as he would a mother.