Mother of Liu Wensou | 24 Histories

Overview

Mother of Liu Wensou was a Family Member.

PeriodFive Dynasties

IdentityHistorical · Female · Anonymous individuated

Roles

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Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 930 to AD 933 長興中
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 73

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Liu Wensou (劉溫叟)
mother 母
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 72

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · With Liu Wensou (劉溫叟) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passages 73-74

Assessments and attributes

Assessment very worthy · Mode named-source-report Source Work Statesmen's Garden of Talk 國老談苑
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 72
Item official robes and gold belt 公服、金帶 · Relation Kept · With Liu Yue (劉嶽)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 68, passage 73

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 2 passages

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幼孤，事母以孝聞，其母甚賢。 Orphaned in childhood, he was famed for filial devotion to his mother, who was a woman of exceptional virtue.

初為翰林學士，私庭拜母，母即命二婢箱擎公服、金帶，置於階下，謂溫叟曰：「此汝父長興中入翰林時所賜也。 When he first became a Hanlin academician, he bowed to his mother in their private courtyard. She at once had two maidservants bring out chests holding official robes and a gold belt and set them on the steps, saying, "These were granted when your father entered the Hanlin in the Changxing era.