Nüsheng (女勝) | 24 Histories

Overview

Nüsheng was a Filial Daughter.

Life and dates

Death

AD 520 to AD 525 正光中
Cause Grief after her mother’s death
Directly stated · Book of Wei 98, passage 218

Age

Years 15 · Reckoning Age at death
Directly stated · Book of Wei 98, passage 218
Years Minimum: 6 · Maximum: 7 · Reckoning Stated
Directly stated · Book of Wei 98, passage 216

Attested activity

AD 520 to AD 525 正光中
Dated from the passage context · Book of Wei 98, passage 1

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Father of Nüsheng (女勝之父)
father 父
Directly stated · Book of Wei 98, passages 215-216
Child of Mother of Nüsheng (女勝之母)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Wei 98, passages 215, 218

Kinship Role brothers · Count 0 · Negated true
Directly stated · Book of Wei 98, passage 215

Events and relationships

Relation Compared to · Person Cao E (曹娥) · Mode named-person-assessment Source Person Id Cui You (崔游)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 98, passage 219

Assessments and attributes

Assessment Displayed filial feeling from age six or seven. · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Wei 98, passages 216-217
Item Tomb of the Filial Daughter 孝女冢 · Relation Buried at · At six li east of the commandery city 郡城東六里大道北
Directly stated · Book of Wei 98, passage 220

References in the histories

Book of Wei, Chapter 98Volume 92: Notable Women: Cui Lan's Consort Feng, Feng Zhuo's Consort Liu, Wei Pu's Consort Fang, Hu Changming's Consort Zhang · 3 passages

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崔覽妻封氏封卓妻劉氏魏溥妻房氏胡長命妻張氏平原女子孫氏房愛親妻崔氏涇州貞女兕先氏[1] 姚氏婦楊氏張洪初妻劉氏[2] 董景起妻張氏陽尼妻高氏史映周妻耿氏任城國太妃孟氏苟金龍妻劉氏盧元禮妻李氏河東孝女姚氏刁思遵妻魯氏 Lady Feng, consort of Cui Lan; Lady Liu, consort of Feng Zhuo; Lady Fang, consort of Wei Pu; Lady Zhang, consort of Hu Changming; Sun Nanyu of Pingyuan; Lady Cui, consort of Fang Aiqin; the chaste woman Sixian of Jing Prefecture; Lady Yang of the Yao household; Lady Liu, consort of Zhang Hongchu; Lady Zhang, consort of Dong Jingqi; Lady Gao, consort of Yang Ni; Lady Geng, consort of Shi Yingzhou; Grand Consort Meng of Rencheng; Lady Liu, consort of Gou Jinlong; Lady Li, consort of Lu Yuanli; the filial daughter Yao of Hedong; Lady Lu, consort of Diao Sizun.

河東姚氏女字女勝，少喪父，無兄弟，母憐而守養。 The daughter of the Yao clan of Hedong, styled Nüsheng, lost her father in childhood; having no brothers, her mother kept and reared her alone.

正光中，母死，女勝年十五，哭泣不絕聲，水漿不入口者數日，不勝哀，遂死。 During the Zhengguang era her mother died; Nüsheng was fifteen and wept without cease, taking no food or water for days; overcome by grief, she died.