Overview
Yu Jian was an envoy and Official.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Other names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|
| Courtesy name |
Shenmen |
什門 |
Shímén |
| Alternate name |
Yu Shenmen |
于什門 |
Yú Shímén |
Life and dates
Attested activity
Places and affiliations
- Polity Northern Wei 大魏 · Relation Served
- At Dai 代
Works and attributed material
- Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment courage and integrity not surpassed by Su Wu · Mode edict Source Person Id Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei (太武帝)
- Item thousand sheep and thousand bolts of silk 羊千口、帛千匹 · Relation Bestowed
References in the histories
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Book of Wei, Chapter 93Volume 87: Morality and Righteousness: Yu Shenmen, Duan Jin, Shi Wende, Ji Gu, Wang Xuanwei, Lou Ti, Liu Kehou · 13 passages
于什門 段進 石文德 汲固 王玄威 婁提 劉渴侯 朱長生 于提 馬八龍 門文愛 晁清 劉侯仁 石祖興 邵洪哲 王榮世 胡小虎 孫道登 李几 張安祖 王閭
Yu Shenmen, Duan Jin, Shi Wende, Ji Gu, Wang Xuanwei, Lou Ti, Liu Kehou, Zhu Changsheng, Yu Ti, Ma Balong, Men Wen'ai, Chao Qing, Liu Houran, Shi Zuxing, Shao Hongzhe, Wang Rongshi, Hu Xiaohu, Sun Daodeng, Li Ji, Zhang Anzu, and Wang Lü.
于簡，字什門，代人也。
Yu Jian, whose courtesy name was Shenmen, came from Dai.
什門曰：「馮主拜受詔，吾自以賓主致敬，何須苦見逼也！」
Shenmen said, "When my lord of Feng bows to receive the edict, I will offer the respect proper between host and guest. Why torment me like this?"
既而跋止什門。
In the end Feng Ba held Shenmen prisoner.
什門於羣眾之中，回身背跋，被袴後襠以辱之。
Before the assembled crowd Shenmen turned his back on Feng Ba, pulled on his trousers with the seat to the front, and presented his backside to insult him.
跋遺以衣服，什門拒而不受。
Feng Ba sent him clothing, but Shenmen refused to take it.
歷二十四年，[3]後馮文通上表稱臣，乃送什門歸。
Twenty-four years passed. When Feng Wentong at last submitted a memorial professing vassalage, Shenmen was sent back.
世祖下詔曰：「什門奉使和龍，值狂豎肆虐，勇志壯厲，不為屈節，雖昔蘇武何以加之。」
Emperor Taiwu issued an edict: "Shenmen served as envoy at Helong when a reckless usurper ran riot. His courage and resolve were magnificent, and he would not bend his integrity. Not even Su Wu of old could have done more."
史臣曰：于什門等或臨危不撓，視死如歸；
The historian writes: Yu Shenmen and his companions—some faced peril without flinching and met death as though going home;
諸傳中只于什門傳稍詳於北史，王玄威傳所載詔書有溢出北史所載的文句，其他諸傳偶有一二字溢出，大抵全同北史。
Of the biographies, only Yu Shenmen's is somewhat fuller than in the Beishi; Wang Xuanwei's includes edict language not found there; others differ by a word or two at most. On the whole they match the Beishi almost entirely.
記于什門還魏於元嘉十一年
records Yu Shenmen's return to Wei in the eleventh year of Yuanjia
八月遣于什門招諭馮跋，至此年二十一年矣。
In the eighth month Yu Shenmen was sent to summon Feng Ba; by this year twenty-one years had elapsed.
按傳稱「馮文通上表稱臣，乃送什門歸」，卷四上世祖紀上延和三年三月記「文通遣尚書高顒上表稱藩」，故通鑑置於是年。
The biography says that "Feng Wentong submitted a memorial declaring himself a subject, and only then was Shenmen sent home." Shizu annals, juan 4A, Yanhe third year, third month, records that "Wentong sent Master of Writing Gao Yong to submit a memorial declaring himself a vassal"; hence the Zizhi tongjian places the return in that year.