毛毅 / Mao Yi (Eastern Han)

Overview

毛毅 / Mao Yi enters the wiki through Hanji 754 as an Eastern Han integrity figure paired with Zheng Jun. The episode uses him to show how the outward appearance of office-seeking can be misread when family duty is invisible.

Current Profile

The source says Zhang Feng visits Mao Yi and initially despises him after seeing Mao appear delighted at appointment as acting Anyang magistrate. The later reversal comes after Mao Yi’s mother dies: when Mao is later offered office, he refuses.

The episode’s interpretation is that Mao Yi’s earlier happiness was not greed for rank but filial satisfaction that his mother could see him appointed. Emperor Zhang later honors Mao Yi and Zheng Jun together, asking local officials to visit them annually and provide sheep and wine.

Key Characteristics

• Eastern Han integrity figure whose conduct is evaluated through apparent office-seeking and later refusal.
• Filial-duty case where public appointment is meaningful because a parent can witness it.
• Example of reputation correction after an observer’s first judgment proves incomplete.
• Paired with Zheng Jun as a recognized local moral exemplar under Emperor Zhang.

Evidence

• Initial misreading: Hanji 754 says Zhang Feng first looks down on Mao Yi after seeing his pleasure at an acting magistracy.
• Filial reinterpretation: Hanji 754 says Mao later refuses office after his mother dies, leading the episode to reinterpret the earlier pleasure as filial rather than greedy.
• Imperial honor: Hanji 754 says Emperor Zhang honors Mao Yi and Zheng Jun and asks local officials to visit them yearly with gifts.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 754. It does not reconstruct Mao Yi’s full career, the complete Zhang Feng relationship, or the local administrative context of Anyang. The current judgment is limited to the episode’s reputation-and-filial-duty use of the anecdote.

What Changed

• Created Mao Yi as a source-bounded Eastern Han integrity figure paired with Zheng Jun.

Relationships

• 郑均 - fellow local moral exemplar honored with Mao Yi in the same source.
• 汉章帝 - ruler who recognizes Mao Yi and orders recurring local visits and gifts.
• 道德名望政治资本 - adjacent concept because Mao Yi’s conduct becomes politically legible reputation.
• 行动托底式反腐劝诫 - related integrity pattern paired through Zheng Jun in the same episode.