Commoners
Commoners
People without office or title, known for one deed, one text or a tie to someone famous
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Before a thatched village house stands a stone well with a wooden bucket, beside a pole with plain cloth drying, smoke rising from a hearth inside and a dog sleeping at the left; a woman carries two buckets along a path by rice fields, with green hills beyond.
Commoners are people without office or title, such as townspeople, villagers and the wives and relatives of famous men. They are remembered not for rank but for a single event, a piece of writing or a tie to a famous person, and appear mostly in memorial inscriptions, biographies and poetry. The role does not classify by occupation; it only says that the person held no office or title.
People in this role
- Jie ZituiDates unknown; withdrew into seclusion after Duke Wen of Jin took the throne in 636 BCE
- Cheng YingDates unknown; per the Shiji active c. 597–583 BCE
- Tiyingfl. 167 BCE
- Bu TianshouDates unknown; aged twelve in 710
- Wang Fu1039–1065 CE
- Tang WanDates unknown; by Zhou Mi's account she met Lu You again at Shen Garden in 1155
- Zhou Gui1488–1513 CE
- Yan PeiweiBirth unknown–1626 CE
- Chen Yun1763–1803 CE
- Sai Jinhua1872 CE–1936 CE
- Gada Meiren1892 CE–1931 CE
No people in this role for that dynasty.