Sui and Tang · Official and Family Member

Lang Fanggui 郎方貴

Láng Fāngguì

Attested AD 581 - AD 618

Passages: 7
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Lang Fanggui was an official and Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 581 to AD 618 Sui-period chapter context
Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 72, passage 13
AD 581 to AD 600 開皇中
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passages 186, 192

Family

Kin of Lang Shuanggui (郎雙貴)
younger paternal cousin 從父弟
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passages 185, 187, 190

Career and standing

Chief Clerk of the prefecture 州主簿
Served
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passage 192
household gate honored and one hundred rolls of goods 表其門閭，賜物百段
Received
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passage 192
Charged as principal offender and sentenced to death
Case killing of the boatman
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passage 189
Pardoned
Authority emperor
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passage 192

Places and affiliations

At Huainan 淮南 · Relation Native of
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passage 184
At shared home with Lang Shuanggui 同居 · Relation Co resided with · With Lang Shuanggui (郎雙貴)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passage 185

Learning and skills

Subject classical learning 稽古之學 · Level lacked
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passage 13

Events and relationships

A boatman beat him and broke his arm while he sought ferry passage during a flood
Assault · Victim
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passage 186
Contended with his cousin to bear the principal guilt and tried to drown himself
Self sacrifice · Claimant
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passages 190-191

Assessments and attributes

Assessment deeply filial, diligent, loving, and indifferent to rank · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passages 14-17
Assessment had high aspirations in youth · Mode historian-narrative
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passage 185
Assessment lacked towering talent but acted naturally and without pretense · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passage 13

References in the histories

Book of Sui, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 37: Filial Piety · 7 passages

田翼、郎方貴等，闕稽古之學，無俊偉之才，並能任其自然，情無矯飾。 Men such as Tian Yi and Lang Fanggui had no training in classical learning and no towering gifts, yet each could follow his inborn nature without artifice or pretense.

○郎方貴 Lang Fanggui

郎方貴，淮南人也。 Lang Fanggui was from Huainan.

開皇中，方貴嘗因出行遇雨，淮水泛長，於津所寄渡，船人怒之，撾方貴臂折。 During the Kaihuang era Fanggui was once caught in rain while traveling. The Huai rose in flood, and at a ferry he sought passage; the boatman in anger beat him until his arm was broken.

至家，其弟雙貴驚問所由，方貴具言之。 When he reached home his cousin Shuanggui asked in alarm what had happened, and Fanggui told him the whole story.

守津者執送之縣官，案問其狀，以方貴為首，當死，雙貴從坐，當流。 The ferry guards seized them and sent them to the county magistrate. After investigating, they found Fanggui the principal offender—liable to death—and Shuanggui an accomplice—liable to banishment.

州狀以聞，上聞而異之，特原其罪，表其門閭，賜物百段，後為州主簿。 The prefecture reported this to the throne. The emperor heard and was moved, specially pardoned their crimes, honored their household gate, and granted a hundred rolls of goods. Fanggui later served as chief clerk of the prefecture.