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Yan Zhengzai
(dates unknown)
BIRTH
UNKNOWN
PLACE
Unknown
DEATH
UNKNOWN
PLACE
Unknown
FAMILY
MOTHER
Confucius
(551 BC-479 BC)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Yan Zhengzai is the name later traditions give to Confucius’s mother. The earlier Shiji identifies his mother as a woman of the Yan family without recording her personal name.
EARLY LIFE
Modern scholarship discusses her as a woman of the Yan clan of Zhulou; the precise status of her union with Shuliang He is interpreted differently across sources.
CAREER
DEATH
Later tradition says she died when Confucius was about seventeen, but her death year is not independently secure.
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