Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and Courtier

Shen Keqing 沈客卿

Shěn Kèqīng

Attested AD 582 - AD 589

Passages: 4
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Shen Keqing was an official and Courtier.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 582 to AD 589 後主
Dated from the passage context · Book of Chen 30, passages 274-275
AD 585 至德三年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Chen 32, passages 87, 91

Key source chapters

Career and standing

left vice director 尚書左丞
Held
Directly stated · Book of Chen 32, passage 91
Held
Imperial favorite
Directly stated · Book of Chen 30, passage 274

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Chen 32, passage 94

Events and relationships

Slandered
Political · Slanderer · With Fu Zai (傅縡)
Directly stated · Book of Chen 30, passage 275

References in the histories

Book of Chen, Chapter 30Volume 30: Xiao Ji; Lu Qiong; Gu Yewang; Fu Zai · 1 passage

會施文慶、沈客卿以便佞親幸，專制衡軸，而縡益疏。 Shi Wenqing and Shen Keqing won favor through flattery, monopolized power, and Zai grew still more distant.

Book of Chen, Chapter 32Volume 32: Filial Piety · 3 passages

時尚書右丞徐祚、尚書左丞沈客卿俱來候貞，見其形體骨立，祚等愴然歎息，徐喻之曰：「弟年事已衰，禮有恆制，小宜引割自全。」 At the time right vice director Xu Zuo and left vice director Shen Keqing of the Secretariat both came to visit Zhen. Seeing his frame wasted to bone standing alone, Zuo and the rest sighed in sorrow. Xu admonished him, "Brother, your years are already advanced; rites have a constant measure—you should slightly restrain your cutting grief and preserve yourself."

祚謂客卿曰：「信哉，孝門有孝子。」 Xu said to Keqing, "It is true—a house of filial piety has a filial son."

客卿曰：「謝公家傳至孝，士大夫誰不仰止，此恐不能起，如何？」 Keqing said, "The Xie house transmits utmost filial piety; which scholar-official does not look up to it? I fear he cannot rise—what then?"