先妣姓石氏，讳妙观，越之新昌人。曾祖父辙，魁绍兴二年(1132年)特□□进士，朝奉郎，提举大宗正司宗室财用。祖庄问，通直郎，台州天台县丞。父纯廙，迪功郎。先是大父师事止斋先生陈公，与编修石公斗文、国论石公纯度伯仲为交友。石氏有女不与凡子，以先世诗礼传家，故妣氏归先君。妣氏事祖母以孝，身理家务。先君笃志词学，□嘉泰壬戌(1202年)进士第，初调池州建德簿，次知庆元府象山县事，莅□□□□著清声，妣氏亦安简素，承先君志。不幸先君早世。妣氏□□家政，苦绝荤终丧，嫁女婚男悉得其所。若精洁奉祀，勤俭齐家，雍睦□上下，诗书训子孙，皆妣氏所素履。晚岁耳聪目明，齿完鬓黑，时暗诵蒙求孝经杂文诸书以自娱，嫠居四十二年，怡然顺适澹如也。妣氏生于淳熙乙未(1175年)闰九月初七日，卒于宝祐乙卯(1255年)四月初七日，享寿八十有一。子男四人：三杰、三俊、三凤，幼晋接，为先叔嗣。女四人：长许妻进士张宏，未行卒；次适国学待对进士吴荐发；次适进士陈文秀；幼适四明进士周梦龙。孙男十人：绶、绅、纮、缯、絪、缵、缉、绩、縯、绳。孙女一人。曾孙男二人。诸孤不天忍死，以宝祐丁巳(1257年)十二月初四日甲申，奉柩归窆于珂山祐固之原，合先君兆。痛念未能求铭当代鸿笔，谨识岁月纳诸坑云。孤哀子三杰等泣血谨志。
表侄、通直郎特差知临安府钱塘县、主管劝农公事、主管盐监、主管运河堤岸专一点检围田、兼弓手寨兵军正借绯王立受填讳。
注：志石高78厘米，宽54厘米，厚10.5厘米，青砂石。新昌县今城南乡秦岩村八石坞后门山出土。
Burial Record of Shi Miaoguan, Magistrate's Wife (1175–1255)
Scholarly Lineage
Daughter of the Shi clan – renowned for classics and rites across generations – she descended from:
Great-grandfather: Shi Zhe, successful candidate in 1132 Imperial Examination (two characters missing), Grand Master for Court Service, Supervisor of Imperial Clan Finances;
Grandfather: Shi Zhuangwen, Gentleman for Comprehensive Duty, Assistant Magistrate of Tiantai County;
Father: Shi Chunyi, Gentleman for Meritorious Achievement;
My grandfather served Mr. Chen Zhizhai and was a friend to Compilation Official Mr. Shi Douwen and his brother State Affairs Counsellor Mr. Shi Guolun Mr. Shi Chundu. The Shis had a daughter, whom the family, with generations of high culture, did not intend to marry an ordinary man and whom they married to my late father.
As a bride, she served her grandmother-in-law with filial devotion while managing the household. When her husband, a successful candidate in the 1202 Imperial Examination, served as Registrar of Jande County, later Magistrate of Xiangshan, and (four characters missing), with renown for integrity, she embraced austerity to support his ideals. Widowed early, she managed household affairs (two characters missing), observed strict mourning rites, and appropriately arranged all her children's marriages. Her lifelong principles shone in her ritual purity, frugal governance, domestic harmony (character missing), and her instructions and schooling for her children and grandchildren. In her advanced in years, with her hearing still sharp and hair dark, she recited primers and classics for solace. In her forty-two years of widowhood, she dwelled in serene contentment.
Family Legacy:
My mother was born on the 7th day of the lunar leap 9th month of 1175 and died on the 7th day of the 4th month of 1255 at the age of 81.
Sons: Sanjie, Sanjun, Sanfeng; youngest Jinjie adopted by my late uncle.
Daughters:
1st: Betrothed to jinshi Zhang Hong but died before marriage);
2nd: Married Wu Jianfa, Imperial Academy candidate;
3rd: Married jinshi Chen Wenxiu;
4th: Married jinshi Zhou Menglong of Mingzhou;
10 grandsons: Shou, Shen, Hong, Zeng, Yin, Zuan, Ji, Ji, Yan, Sheng.
1 granddaughter.
2 great-grandsons.
On the 4th day of the 12th lunar month, 1257, her children and grandchildren, in unfathomable sorrow, buried her beside her husband at Yougu Plain, Ke Mountain.
It is a great regret that it was not possible to ask a master literati for the composition of her epitaph; to go into the tomb is only this record of her life. Inscribed by sons in tears of blood.
Calligraphy by Wang Lishou, nephew, Acting Magistrate of Qiantang County, concurrently overseeing agriculture, salt, canals, and militia.
Note: Stele 78×54×10.5 cm, bluish sandstone. Excavated at Qinyan Village, Chengnan Township, Xinchang.