孔融母 / Kong Rong’s mother

Overview

Kong Rong’s mother is the unnamed household elder who enters the wiki through the 169 CE Kong-family shelter case.

Current Profile

The current source uses her to complete the family’s “competing to die” structure. After 孔融 and 孔褒 each claim responsibility for sheltering 张俭, she argues that household affairs should fall on the household head and attempts to take the capital charge herself. Her role makes the episode about family responsibility under persecution rather than only sibling loyalty.

Key Characteristics

• Household elder whose claim reframes the shelter case from individual initiative to family governance.
• Mother of Kong Bao and Kong Rong, positioned between two sons who both try to assume guilt.
• Participant in the mutual self-sacrifice sequence that moves local officials enough to escalate the case to court.
• Source-scoped figure whose importance comes from the ethical scene rather than from named independent office or biography.

Evidence

• Household responsibility claim: Hanji 895 records her saying that a household matter should be borne by the household head.
• Family sacrifice structure: Hanji 895 places her claim after Kong Rong and Kong Bao each try to take guilt, creating the source’s family-affection focus.
• Legal outcome boundary: Hanji 895 says the court is moved by the scene but still assigns punishment to Kong Bao.

Qualifications

The source does not supply her personal name, independent lineage, or later history. The page therefore uses a relational title and should not be expanded into a fuller biography without a new source.

What Changed

• Initial page created to preserve the third actor in Hanji 895’s Kong-family responsibility contest.

Relationships

• 孔融 - son whose youthful sheltering act she tries to absorb into household responsibility.
• 孔褒 - son ultimately assigned the punishment.
• 张俭 - fugitive whose reception triggers the household liability case.
• 收留逃亡者的牵连风险 - concept showing why household status matters in the episode.
• 忠义牵连困境 - broader ethical frame for third-party cost under loyalty and rescue.