Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Family Member

Lady Ruan 阮氏

Attested AD 502 - AD 557

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Lady Ruan was a Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 502 to AD 557 梁
Directly stated · Book of Chen 32, passage 66

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Xie Zhen (謝貞)
grandmother 祖母 · paternal line · 2 generations
Directly stated · Book of Chen 32, passage 66
Parent of Xie Lan (謝藺)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Chen 32, passage 72

Assessments and attributes

wind dizziness
Illness
Directly stated · Book of Chen 32, passage 66

References in the histories

Book of Chen, Chapter 32Volume 32: Filial Piety · 2 passages

祖母阮氏先苦風眩，每發便一二日不能飲食，貞時年七歲，祖母不食，貞亦不食，往往如是，親族莫不奇之。 His grandmother Lady Ruan had long suffered from wind dizziness; whenever it flared she could not eat or drink for a day or two. Zhen was then seven; when his grandmother did not eat, Zhen also did not eat. Often it was so, and kin on both sides all marveled at him.

初，父藺居母阮氏憂，不食泣血而卒，家人賓客懼貞復然，從父洽、族兄暠乃共往華嚴寺，請長爪禪師為貞說法，仍謂貞曰：「孝子既無兄弟，極須自愛，若憂毀滅性，誰養母邪？」 Earlier, his father Lin in mourning for his mother Lady Ruan had not eaten and wept blood until he died. Family and guests feared Zhen would do the same. His father's younger brother Qia and his clansman Hao together went to Huayan Temple and asked the monk Long Claw to preach the law for Zhen, and also told Zhen, "A filial son has no brothers and must cherish himself utterly. If grief destroys your nature, who will nourish your mother?"