Yuan · Filial Son

Huang Daoxian 黃道賢

Died AD 1334

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Huang Daoxian was a Filial Son.

Life and dates

Death

AD 1334 元統二年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 198, passage 100

Attested activity

AD 1334 元統二年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 198, passage 100

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Lady Su (蘇氏)
birth mother 生母
Directly stated · History of Yuan 198, passage 95
Child of Father of Huang Daoxian (黃道賢父)
father 父
Directly stated · History of Yuan 198, passage 96
Child of Lady Tang (唐氏)
principal mother 嫡母 · Step parentage
Directly stated · History of Yuan 198, passage 95

Career and standing

Gate of the Filial Huang Family 孝子黃氏之門
AD 1336 至元二年 · Gate honored
Directly stated · History of Yuan 198, passage 102

Places and affiliations

Polity Id yuan · Relation Lived under
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 198, passage 94
At Quanzhou 泉州
Directly stated · History of Yuan 198, passage 94

Events and relationships

Hut by grave carried earth
Mourning · Mourner
Directly stated · History of Yuan 198, passage 101
Prayed to give twelve years of life for father
Medical · Caregiver
Directly stated · History of Yuan 198, passages 98-99

References in the histories

History of Yuan, Chapter 198Volume 198 Biographies 85: Filial and Brotherly Acts 1 · 5 passages

黃道賢，泉州人。 Huang Daoxian came from Quanzhou.

嫡母唐無子，道賢在襁褓而生母蘇以疾去。 His principal mother Lady Tang had no children of her own; while Daoxian was still an infant his birth mother Lady Su left home because of illness.

道賢竭力養二母，得其歡心。 Daoxian devoted himself to both mothers and won their affection.

父病篤，道賢晝夜奉湯藥，不離膝下，遍求良醫，莫效。 When his father fell gravely ill, Daoxian tended him day and night at his bedside and sought physicians everywhere, all to no avail.

道賢居喪盡禮，負土築墳，廬於墓側，疏食終制。 Daoxian observed every mourning rite, carried earth to raise the mound, lived in a hut beside the grave, and ate only plain food until mourning ended.