Death
As Jia fell ill in 282, Emperor Wu bestowed the special honor of having Crown Prince Zhong personally visit him in his illness. After he died, Lady Guo wanted to have Jia Limin posthumously adopt Jia Wu's son Han Mi (韓謐) and become Jia's heir for his dukedom. Emperor Wu approved, even though it was considered irregular to have a grandson by a daughter to inherit the title of a maternal grandfather. Because of this, the official Qin Xiu (秦秀), who was responsible for selecting important officials' posthumous names, initially wanted to select "Huang" (荒, literally "performer of illegal acts") as Jia's posthumous name, but Emperor Wu overrode Qin's recommendation and chose "Wu" (武, literally "martial") as Jia's posthumous name.
After Lady Li's subsequent death, Jia Nanfeng, by that point Emperor Hui's empress, would not permit her to be buried with Jia Chong. Only after Empress Jia was deposed and poisoned (300) was Lady Li buried with Jia Chong. (Presumably, Lady Guo was initially buried with Jia Chong; it is not known whether she was removed from the joint tomb after Empress Jia's death.)
Read more about this topic: Jia Chong
Famous quotes containing the word death:
“How I envy you death;
what could death bring,
more black, more set with sparks
to slay, to affright,
than the memory of those first violets.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name.
Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)
“Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)