Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Filial Commoner

Huangfu Xia 皇甫遐

Attested AD 565

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Huangfu Xia was a Filial Commoner.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Yonglan	永覽	Yonglan

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 565 保定末
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 202

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Father of Huangfu Xia (皇甫遐之父)
father 父 · paternal line
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 201
Child of Mother of Huangfu Xia (皇甫遐之母)
mother 母 · maternal line
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 201

Places and affiliations

At Fenyin in Hedong 河東汾陰 · Relation Native of
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 199

Learning and skills

Belief Buddhism 佛 · Relation Adherent of
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 209

Events and relationships

Hut mourning and built meditation cave
Ritual · Mourner
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passages 202-206
Used gifts for Buddhist offerings
Ritual · Devotee
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 209

Assessments and attributes

Assessment utmost filial piety · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 208

References in the histories

Book of Zhou, Chapter 46Volume 46 Biographies 38: Filial Piety · 6 passages

李棠柳檜杜叔毗荊可秦族皇甫遐張元 Li Tang, Liu Gui, Du Shubi, Jing Ke, Qin Zu, Huangfu Xia, and Zhang Yuan

皇甫遐字永覽，河東汾陰人也。 Huangfu Xia, whose courtesy name was Yonglan, was a native of Fenyin in Hedong.

遐性純至，少喪父，事母以孝聞。 Xia by nature was pure and utmost; he lost his father while young and served his mother with a reputation for filial piety.

遐食粥枕塊，櫛風沐雨，形容枯悴，家人不識。 Xia ate only gruel and slept on an unfired mourning brick; exposed to wind and rain until his form was withered and haggard, his family could no longer recognize him.

當其營墓之初，乃有鴟烏各一，徘徊悲鳴，不離墓側，若助遐者，經月餘日乃去。 When he first undertook the tomb, a pair of ospreys circled and cried mournfully beside it, as if assisting Xia; after more than a month they departed.

遐皆受而不食，悉以營佛齋焉。 Xia accepted their gifts but did not eat them, using all to provide Buddhist offerings.