Qin and Han · Ruler

King of Shache 莎車王

Attested BC 74 - BC 49

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

King of Shache was a ruler.

Life and dates

Death

Suicide
Directly stated · Book of Han 90, passage 24

Attested activity

BC 74 to BC 49 宣帝
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 90, passages 24, 27

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 90Volume 79: Feng Fengshi · 4 passages

莎車王自殺，傳其首詣長安。 The Shache king committed suicide; his head went to Chang'an.

大苑聞其斬莎車王，敬之異於它使。 Ferghana, learning he had decapitated the Shache king, treated him with a respect no other envoy had known.

於是杜欽上疏，追訟奉世前功曰：「前莎車王殺漢使者，約諸國背畔。 Du Qin then memorialized, retrospectively pleading Fengshi's earlier merit, saying, "Formerly the king of Shache killed Han's envoy and bound the states in rebellion.

左將軍奉世以衛候便宜發兵誅莎車王，策定城郭，功施邊境。 Left General Fengshi, then serving as guard commandant, had on convenient authority raised troops and executed the Shache king, settled the walled towns, and extended his merit to the border.