Sun Shao (general)
Sun Shao | |
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孫韶 | |
Governor of You Province (幽州牧) (nominal) | |
In office ? –241 | |
Monarch | Sun Quan |
General Who Guards the North (鎮北將軍) | |
In office 229 –? | |
Monarch | Sun Quan |
General Who Spreads Might (揚威將軍) | |
In office 221 –229 | |
Monarch | Sun Quan |
Personal details | |
Born | 188[1] |
Died | 241 (aged 53)[1] |
Relations | See Eastern Wu family trees |
Children |
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Occupation | General |
Courtesy name | Gongli (公禮) |
Peerage | Marquis of Jiande (建德侯) |
Other name | Yu Shao (俞韶) |
Sun Shao (188–241), Sun Shao was described as a handsome man and was eight chi tall (approximately 184 cm).
Life
In 204, the Grand Administrator of Danyang, Sun Jian's son
Prior to 220, Sun Shao was promoted to Lieutenant-General (偏將軍) and appointed as the Administrator of Guangling Commandery (roughly, the parts of modern Jiangsu and extreme eastern Anhui provinces which lie south of the Huai River and north of the Yangtze). In 221, when Sun Quan became the King of Wu, he promoted Sun Shao to General Who Spreads Might (揚威將軍), and granted the marquisate of Jiande in present-day Hangzhou.[5]
In late 225,
In 229, when Sun Quan proclaimed himself emperor, Sun Shao was appointed General who Guards the North (鎮北將軍). Sometime after 230, he was granted the nominal governorship of
Sun Shao died of natural causes in 241.
Family
Sun Shao's son, Sun Kai, served as Militant General-in-Chief for Eastern Wu, one of the highest military appointments in the palace, sharing with two others the command of the imperial guard.
See also
References
- ^ a b c de Crespigny (2007), p. 775.
- ^ Records of the Three Kingdoms, chapter 51, p. 1214.
- ^ Records of the Three Kingdoms, chapter 51, pp. 1214–6.
- ^ Records of the Three Kingdoms, chapter 51, p. 1216; Generals of the South, p. 231 (chapter 4 Archived 2011-08-27 at the Wayback Machine)
- ^ Records of the Three Kingdoms, chapter 51, p. 1216.
- ^ Records of the Three Kingdoms, chapter 2, p. 85; Zizhi Tongjian, chapter 70, p. 2225 (year 225, entry 9); Generals of the South, p. 384 (chapter 7 Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine)
- ^ Records of the Three Kingdoms, chapter 47, p. 1132 note 3.
- ^ Records of the Three Kingdoms, chapter 51, p. 1216.
- ^ Zizhi Tongjian, chapter 72, p. 2293 (year 234, entry 7).
- ^ Dictionary of Official Titles of Imperial China, p. 574, entry 7835
- ^ Dictionary of Official Titles of Imperial China, p. 120, entry 352
- ^ This is according to the main text of the Records of the Three Kingdoms. According to the Introduction to the Peers of Jin (晉諸公贊) by Fu Chang (傅暢) (d. 330), whence also Sun Kai's year of death, Sun Kai was appointed General Who Crosses the Liao (River), a much more active and frontier-oriented generalship. See Records of the Three Kingdoms, chapter 51, p. 1216, note 1.
- ^ Records of the Three Kingdoms, chapter 51, p. 1216,
- Chen, Shou (1977) [280s or 290s]. Pei, Songzhi (ed.). 三國志 [Records of the Three Kingdoms]. Taipei: Dingwen Printing.
- ISBN 9789004156050.
- de Crespigny, Rafe (2004) [1990]. Generals of the South (internet ed.). Canberra: Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University. Archived from the original on 2007-06-07.
- Hucker, Charles O. (1985). Dictionary of Official Titles of Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
- Sima, Guang, ed. (1956) [1084]. 資治通鑒 [Zizhi Tongjian]. Beijing: Zhonghua Publishing House.