Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Family Member

Lady Cai 蔡氏

Died AD 554 to AD 555

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Lady Cai was a Family Member.

Life and dates

Death

AD 554 to AD 555 江陵之陷
At Jiangling 江陵
Directly stated · Book of Chen 32, passages 27-28, 44

Attested activity

AD 554 to AD 555 江陵之陷
Dated from the passage context · Book of Chen 32, passages 27-28

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Spouse of Yin Gaoming (殷高明)
husband 夫
wife 妻
Strongly inferred · Book of Chen 32, passage 17
Parent of Yin Buhai (殷不害)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Chen 32, passages 11, 17
Parent of Yin Buxin (殷不佞)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Chen 32, passage 44

References in the histories

Book of Chen, Chapter 32Volume 32: Filial Piety · 6 passages

家世儉約，居甚貧窶，有弟五人，皆幼弱，不害事老母，養小弟，勤劇無所不至，士大夫以篤行稱之。 His family for generations was frugal and their dwelling very poor. He had five younger brothers, all still young. Buhai served his aged mother and reared his young brothers, toiling at every task without limit, and scholar-officials praised his earnest conduct.

簡文又以不害善事親，賜其母蔡氏錦裙襦、氈席、被褥，單復畢備。 Emperor Jianwen of Liang also, because Buhai was skilled at serving his parents, bestowed on his mother Lady Cai brocade skirts and jackets, felt mats, quilts, and bedding, single and double layers all complete.

江陵之陷也，不害先於別所督戰，失母所在。 When Jiangling fell, Buhai was elsewhere directing battle and lost track of where his mother was.

于時甚寒，冰雪交下，老弱凍死者填滿溝塹‵不害行哭道路，遠近尋求，無所不至，遇見死人溝水中，即投身而下，扶捧閱視，舉體凍濕，水漿不入口，號泣不輟聲，如是者七日，始得母屍。 The season was bitterly cold; ice and snow fell together, and the old and weak who had frozen to death filled ditches and moats. Buhai walked the roads weeping and searched near and far without rest. Whenever he came upon a corpse in a ditch or stream he threw himself down, lifted and examined the body, his whole person frozen and soaked. He took no food or drink, and his cries never ceased. After seven days thus he found his mother's corpse.

會江陵陷，而母卒，道路隔絕，久不得奔赴，四載之中，晝夜號泣，居處飲食，常為居喪之禮。 It happened that Jiangling fell and his mother died; roads were cut off and for long he could not hurry to the funeral. Within four years he wept and cried day and night; in dwelling, food, and drink he constantly kept the rites of mourning.

至是，第四兄不齊始之江陵，迎母喪柩歸葬。 By then his fourth elder brother Buqi had first gone to Jiangling and brought back their mother's coffin for burial.