Shen Yue (沈約) | 24 Histories

Overview

Shen Yue was a historian, poet, and statesman.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 479 to AD 513 沈約又爲《齊紀》
Event Shen Yue's authorship of Qi Ji at an unspecified time between Qi's foundation and his death (AD 479-513). Conservative bounds, not a thirty-four-year writing career; the preface presents it as a predecessor to Xiao Zixian's separate history.
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 60, passage 2
AD 496 建武三年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 19, passage 121
AD 516 to AD 517 十五年…十六年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 18, passages 98-99
AD 508 to AD 513 嘗於殿內講《孝經》
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 25, passage 79
AD 502 to AD 512 天監
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 25, passages 154, 161, 167
AD 462 宋武帝大明六年
Dated from the passage context · History of Liao 42, passages 11, 234

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AD 502 to AD 513 尚書令沈約見而稱曰
Strongly inferred · Book of Liang 35, passage 100
AD 497 建武四年前後
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passages 222, 232
AD 479 to AD 493 文惠太子之在東宮
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 26, passage 11
AD 502 to AD 524 朱异早年入梁都
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 38, passages 8, 10
AD 502 to AD 549 梁世
Dated from the passage context · Book of Chen 18, passage 5
AD 502 to AD 513 梁初
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 35, passage 157
AD 441 to AD 513 梁有沈約
Strongly inferred · Book of Wei 91, passage 196
AD 502 梁臺建
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 36, passage 15
AD 498 永泰元年
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 273
AD 502 to AD 508 沈約
Directly stated · Book of Liang 14, passage 146
AD 465 to AD 471 與吳興沈約俱爲蔡興宗所禮
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 26, passage 6
AD 502 to AD 519 舉年十四
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 37, passage 5
AD 501 to AD 503 齊末梁初
Directly stated · Book of Liang 19, passage 91
AD 490 to AD 493 齊永明末
Directly stated · Book of Liang 30, passage 39

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Ancestor of Shen Zhong (沈眾)
grandfather 祖 · paternal line · 2 generations
Directly stated · Book of Chen 18, passage 5
Parent of Shen Xuan (沈旋)
father 父
Strongly inferred · Book of Chen 18, passage 5

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Special grand master 特進
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Chen 18, passage 5
Administrator of Dongyang 東陽太守
AD 496 建武三年 · Held
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 19, passage 121
Director of the Imperial Secretariat 尚書令
AD 516 to AD 517 十五年…十六年 · Held
Directly stated · Book of Liang 18, passage 98
Director 尚書
AD 498 永泰元年 · Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 273
Chief Minister 尚書令
Held
Directly stated · Book of Liang 36, passage 15
Director of the Secretariat 尚書令
Held
Directly stated · Book of Liang 25, passage 79

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General Who Pacifies the Army 鎮軍將軍
Held
Directly stated · Book of Liang 25, passage 167
Intendant of Danyang 丹陽尹
Held
Directly stated · Book of Liang 25, passage 167
Minister of State 尚書令
Held
Directly stated · Book of Liang 35, passage 100
Vice Director of the Secretariat 尚書僕射
Held
Directly stated · Book of Liang 25, passage 161
Director of the Secretariat 尚書令
Held
Directly stated · Book of Liang 38, passage 8

Places and affiliations

Liang
Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Chen 18, passage 5
Polity Liang 梁 · Relation Active under
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 196
Polity Liang 梁 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Liang 25, passage 79
Polity Liang 梁 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Liang 25, passage 161; Book of Liang 35, passages 100, 157
Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 19, passage 121; Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 273
At Wuxing 吳興
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 6; Book of Liang 36, passage 95

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AD 496 建武三年
At Dongyang 東陽 · Relation Posted to
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 19, passage 121

Works and attributed material

Book of Song 宋書
Relation Author
Directly stated · History of Liao 42, passage 234
History of Song 宋書
Relation Author
Directly stated · Book of Liang 30, passage 39
Qi Chronicle 齊紀
Relation Author
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 60, passage 2
suburban and ancestral temple hymn texts 樂辭
Relation Author
Directly stated · Book of Liang 35, passages 157, 169
鳥身備五采，赤色居多
AD 496 建武三年 · Memorial · Author · Direct quotation · Mode quotation Speaker Shen Yue (沈約)
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 19, passage 121
AD 516 to AD 517 十五年…十六年
Speech · Speaker · With Gaozu (高祖) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Liang 18, passage 99

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AD 498 永泰元年
Memorial · Author · With Xuan (鉉)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 273
Letter · Addressee · With Xu Mian (徐勉) · Paraphrased
Directly stated · Book of Liang 25, passage 81
Speech · Speaker · With Zhu Yi (朱异) · Mode direct-quotation Speaker Shen Yue (沈約)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 38, passages 8, 10
Master Fan delights in inquiry and knows everything—Hu Guang himself could add nothing. 范公好事該博，胡廣無以加。
Speech · Speaker · With Fan Xiu (范岫) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Liang 26, passage 13
Speech · Speaker · With Xie Tiao (謝朓)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passages 223-230
Speech · Speaker · Quote true
Directly stated · Book of Liang 30, passage 40
可謂得明道之高致，蓋《幽通》之流也。
Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Liang 35, passage 100

Events and relationships

Appointed to jointly oversee Five Rites
Scholarly · Joint overseer
Directly stated · Book of Liang 25, passage 167
Memorialized a five colored great bird gathered in Dongyang
AD 496 建武三年 · Portent report · Reporter · At Dongyang 東陽
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 19, passage 121
Memorialized on behalf of
AD 498 永泰元年 · Political · Memorialist · With Xuan (鉉)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 35, passage 273
Proposed Five Rites academician structure
Administrative · Deliberator
Directly stated · Book of Liang 25, passage 161
Saw and praised Hongxu fu
Literary · Critic · With Zixian (子顯)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 35, passage 100
Classic of Filial Piety 孝經
Scholarly · Tutor · Served as tutor
Directly stated · Book of Liang 25, passage 79

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Wrote the Qi Chronicle
Scholarly · Author
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 60, passage 2
Relation Examiner of · Person Zhu Yi (朱异)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 38, passage 8
Relation Colleague of · Person Xu Mian (徐勉)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 25, passage 167
Relation Colleague of · Person Zhang Chong (張充)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 25, passage 167

Assessments and attributes

Assessment I do not match him · About Person Id Pei Ziye (裴子野) · Mode named-speaker Speaker Shen Yue (沈約)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 30, passage 40
Assessment Zixian's ode attains the lofty reach of the Way, of the same stream as The Mysterious Communication · Mode named-person-speech Speaker Shen Yue (沈約) · About Person Id Zixian (子顯)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 35, passage 100
AD 516 to AD 517 十五年…十六年
Assessment called Feng Daogen His Majesty's great-tree general · With Feng Daogen (馮道根) · Mode named-person Speaker Shen Yue (沈約)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 18, passage 99
Assessment composed hymns only praise sacred virtue and do not narrate imperial creative achievements · Mode named-person-speech Speaker Ziyun (子雲)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 35, passage 179
Assessment hymn texts have many errors and are shallow and miscellaneous · Mode named-person-speech Speaker Gaozu (高祖)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 35, passage 169
Assessment In two hundred years there has been no poetry like Xie Tiao's · Mode named-person-judgment Speaker Shen Yue (沈約)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 47, passage 232