Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Farmer and Filial Exemplar

Jing Ke 荊可

Attested AD 535 - AD 581

Passages: 11
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Jing Ke was a Farmer and Filial Exemplar.

Life and dates

Death

died 卒
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 177

Attested activity

AD 535 to AD 551 大統中
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 169
AD 557 to AD 581 有周
Strongly inferred · Book of Zhou 46, passages 252, 255

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Mother of Jing Ke (荊可之母)
mother 母 · maternal line
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 160

Kinship Role wife and children · Count 2 · wife and children (unspecified number)
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 177

Career and standing

farmer 隴畝之徒
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 255

Places and affiliations

At fields and furrows 隴畝 · Relation Born at
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 255
At Yishi in Hedong 河東猗氏 · Relation Native of
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 158

Learning and skills

no formal teacher instruction 曾無師資之訓
Negated true
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 255

Works and attributed material

Historian appraisal · Subject · Paraphrased
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passages 255-256

Events and relationships

Achieved filial piety and brotherhood from the heart
Filial conduct · Exemplar
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 255
Hut mourning beside tomb
Ritual · Mourner
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passages 161-165, 167

Assessments and attributes

Assessment filial conduct to the utmost · Mode named-source-report
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 169
Assessment filial provision for mother · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 160
Assessment without teachers, followed the heart to filial piety and brotherhood and walked the path of rites · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 46, passage 255

References in the histories

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History

11 passages

Book of Zhou, Chapter 46Volume 46 Biographies 38: Filial Piety · 11 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

荊可，河東猗氏人也。 Jing Ke was a native of Yishi in Hedong.

然可家舊墓，塋域極大，榛蕪至深，去家十餘里。 Yet the Ke family's old tombs had a burial ground extremely large, overgrown with brambles to great depth, more than ten li from home.

而可獨宿其中，與禽獸雜處。 Yet Ke alone lodged within it, dwelling among birds and beasts.

大統中，鄉人以可孝行之至，足以勸勵風俗，乃上言焉。 In the Datong era the people of his district, because Ke's filial conduct reached the utmost and was sufficient to encourage and stir custom, thereupon submitted a memorial.

大冢宰、晉公護聞可孝行，特引見焉。 Grand Minister of State and Duke of Jin Hu heard of Ke's filial conduct and especially summoned him for an audience.

與可言論，時有會於護意。 In conversation with Ke, at times his words accorded with Hu's intent.

每見可，自傷久乖膝下。 Whenever he saw Ke he grieved himself for long estrangement from his mother's knees.

重可至性。 He valued Ke's utmost nature.

及可卒之後，護猶思其純孝，收可妻子于京城，恆給其衣食。 After Ke died Hu still thought of his pure filial piety, gathered Ke's wife and children in the capital, and constantly supplied their clothing and food.

荊可、秦族之徒，生自隴畝，曾無師資之訓，因心而成孝友，乘理而蹈禮節。 Jing Ke, Qin Zu, and their kind were born from fields and furrows without formal instruction; following the heart they achieved filial piety and brotherhood, riding principle they walked the path of rites.