Yu Yuan 虞愿

Other names

Family

• Descendant of Yu Ben (虞賚)
  grandfather 祖 · paternal line · 2 generations · Through Yu Wangzhi (虞望之)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 36
• Sibling of Yu Ji (虞季)
  elder brother 兄 · Uncertain siblings
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 83
• Child of Yu Wangzhi (虞望之)
  father 父
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 37
• Child of Mother of Yu Yuan
  mother 母
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 78

Career and standing

• Appointed after resigning to care for his elderly mother
  Appointments General of the Rear Army 後軍將軍
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 78
• Appointed and transferred
  Appointments General of Valiant Cavalry 驍騎將軍, Minister of Justice 廷尉, Libationer of the Eastern Pavilion 祭酒
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 85
• Appointed
  Appointments Grand Administrator of Jinping 晉平太守
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 68
• Appointed
  Appointments Vice Director of the Imperial Ancestral Temple 太常丞, Director in the Sacrifices Office 尚書祠部郎, Palace Attendant in the Emergent Cavalry 通直散騎侍郎, Director of Rectitude for Five Commanderies 五郡中正
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 41
• Promoted and transferred
  AD 453 元嘉末 · Appointments Regular Attendant of the Prince of Xiangdong's household 湘東王國常侍, Ink-Office Adjutant under the Prince of Xunyang 潯陽王府墨曹參軍
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 39
• Promoted for prolonged sickbed attendance
  Appointments Regular Palace Attendant 正員郎
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 67

Places and affiliations

• At Yuyao in Kuaiji 會稽餘姚
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 35

Learning and skills

• Founded and taught
  Institution commandery school 學堂
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 70
• AD 453 元嘉末
  Institution Imperial Academy 國子 · Student
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 39
• Subjects Confucian administration, broad learning · Level learned
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 40

Works and attributed material

• Discussions and Questions on the Five Classics 五經論問
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 89
• several dozen essays 文翰數十篇
  Relation Author
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 89
• Records of Kuaiji 會稽記
  Relation Compiler
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 89
• The temple was funded by people selling sons and pawning wives; Buddha would grieve, and the act was sinful rather than meritorious.
  Remonstrance · Speaker · With Emperor Ming of Song (宋明帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 48
• Yao taught the game to Danzhu; it was not a suitable pastime for a sovereign.
  Remonstrance · Speaker · With Emperor Ming of Song (宋明帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 55

Events and relationships

• Attended Emperor Ming throughout his illness
  Medical attendance · With Emperor Ming of Song (宋明帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passages 58, 67
• Bowed farewell in tears when Song imperial tablets were moved to the Ruyin temple
  Dynastic loyalty
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 86
• Intercepted and returned commoners' sons and daughters in law seized as debt collateral by his predecessor
  Administrative redress
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 69
• Returned east without waiting for imperial permission after his brother's death
  Mourning travel
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 84
• Saw the Yue King's Stone entirely clear despite tradition that only an incorrupt administrator could see it
  Auspicious sight
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passages 74-76
• Twice released a medicinal snake farther into the mountains until it did not return
  Animal mercy
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passages 71-73

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment commentators attributed the snake episode to his compassionate heart · Mode commentator-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 73
• Assessment did not seek personal enrichment while governing Jinping · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 68
• Assessment often opposed the emperor's wishes yet received exceptional rewards · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 56
• as a small child alone refrained from taking his grandfather's winter oranges
  Childhood conduct
  Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 53, passage 38