Sui and Tang · Family Member

Mother of Tian Yi 田翼之母

Attested AD 581 - AD 618

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Mother of Tian Yi was a Family Member.

Life and dates

Death

died after a prolonged illness
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passage 165

Attested activity

AD 581 to AD 618 Sui-period biographical context
Derived from the source · Book of Sui 72, passage 162

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Tian Yi (田翼)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passages 162-165

Events and relationships

Burial · Deceased · Burial Type shared honored burial · With Tian Yi (田翼), Wife of Tian Yi (田翼之妻)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passage 165

Assessments and attributes

lay ill for more than a year and later suffered sudden dysentery
Illness
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passages 163-164

References in the histories

Book of Sui, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 37: Filial Piety · 4 passages

性至孝，養母以孝聞。 He was utterly filial by nature and was known for the way he cared for his mother.

其後母臥疾歲餘，翼親易燥濕，母食則食，母不食則不食。 Later his mother lay ill for more than a year. Yi personally tended her comfort, changing bedding for dry or damp; when his mother ate he ate, when she did not eat he did not eat.

母患暴痢，翼謂中毒，遂親嘗惡。 His mother suffered sudden dysentery. Yi feared poison and personally tasted her foul discharges.

及母終，翼一慟而絕，其妻亦不勝哀而死，鄉人厚共葬之。 When his mother died, Yi cried out once and collapsed. His wife too died of grief, and the villagers gave them a shared burial with full honors.