Qin and Han · Royal Family Member

Liu Shang 商

Shang

Attested BC 113 - BC 103

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Liu Shang was a Royal Family Member.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	King Si of Sishui	泗水思王	Sishui Si Wang

Life and dates

Death

Died
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 59, passage 158

Attested activity

BC 113 元鼎四年
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 59, passage 157
BC 113 to BC 103 十一年卒
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 59, passage 158

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Liu Shun (舜)
father 父
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 59, passage 137
Parent of Liu Anshi (安世)
father 父
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 59, passage 158

Career and standing

King of Sishui 泗水王
BC 113 元鼎四年 · Enfeoffed · Households 30000
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 59, passages 154, 157

Places and affiliations

Polity Han 漢 · Relation Royal kinsman
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 59, passage 1

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 59House of the Five Clans · 5 passages

王內多，所幸姬生子平、子商，王后希得幸。 The king kept many women in his inner palace, and his favored consorts bore him sons named Ping and Shang. The queen herself rarely enjoyed his attentions.

封子商三萬戶，為泗水王。」 and enfeoff his son Shang as King of Sishui, also with thirty thousand households."

泗水思王商，以元鼎四年用常山憲王子為泗水王。 King Si of Sishui, whose name was Shang, a son of King Xian of Changshan, was enfeoffed as King of Sishui in the fourth year of the Yuanding era.

於是上憐泗水王絕，乃立安世弟賀為泗水王。 The emperor, grieved that the Sishui line had come to an end, established Anshi's younger brother He as King of Sishui.

其後漢益封其支子為六安王、泗水王二國。 In later years, the Han court further enfeoffed their collateral descendants, creating two additional kingdoms: Liu'an and Sishui.