鐔津文集 16.20

16.20

韓子為歐陽詹哀辭。謂詹事父母盡孝道。仁於妻子。又曰。其於慈孝最隆也。而唐人黃璞傳詹。謂其以倡婦一動（一作慟字）而死。而譏詹不孝。乃引孟簡哭詹詩曰。後生莫沈迷。沈迷喪其真。璞詹之鄉人也。評詹固宜詳矣。檀弓曰。文伯之喪。敬姜據床而不哭。以文伯多得內人之情。而嫌其曠禮也。況以婦人之死而遺其親之恨者也。韓子稱詹之孝隆。不亦以私其黨而自欺乎。不亦不及敬姜之知禮乎（注詹之所以死者亦見於太平廣記）。

Master Han wrote an elegy for Ouyang Zhan, saying that Zhan served his parents with utmost filial piety and was benevolent to his wife and children; he also said: 'His loving-kindness and filial devotion were most exalted.' Yet the Tang figure Huang Pu, in his biography of Zhan, stated that Zhan died from a single grief over a singing courtesan, and mocked Zhan for being unfilial; he cited Meng Jian's poem weeping for Zhan: 'May later generations not fall into delusion; delusion forfeits one's true nature.' Pu was Zhan's fellow townsman, so his evaluation of Zhan should certainly be accurate. The *Tan Gong* says: 'At the funeral of Wenbo, Jing Jiang leaned upon the bed and did not weep, because Wenbo had won too much of the affections of women, and she suspected him of neglecting the rites.' How much worse is it to die for the sake of a woman and leave behind sorrow for one's parents! That Master Han praised Zhan's filial piety as exalted—is this not deceiving himself out of partiality for his partisan? Is it not inferior even to Jing Jiang's knowledge of ritual? (Note: The reason for Zhan's death also appears in the *Taiping Guangji*.)