Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Yellow Gate; murderer of Sima Yu

Sun Lü 孫慮

Attested AD 300

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Sun Lü was a Yellow Gate; murderer of Sima Yu.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 300 三月
Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 53, passage 120

Career and standing

Yellow Gate 黃門
Held
Directly stated · Book of Jin 53, passage 120
executed 誅
Executed
Directly stated · Book of Jin 53, passage 131

Events and relationships

Killed with pestle
AD 300 三月 · Assassination · Perpetrator · With Sima Yu (司馬遹)
Directly stated · Book of Jin 53, passage 123

References in the histories

Book of Jin, Chapter 53Volume 53 Biographies 23: Crown Prince Minhuai · 4 passages

三月，矯詔使黃門孫慮齋至許昌以害太子。 Third month a fake edict sent Sun Lü to kill Yu at Xuchang.

慮以告劉振，振乃徙太子于小坊中，絕不與食，宮中猶於牆壁上過食與太子。 Lü jailed and starved Yu; sympathizers smuggled food over walls.

慮乃逼太子以藥，太子不肯服，因如廁，慮以藥杵椎殺之，太子大呼，聲聞於外。 Sun Lü beat Yu to death in the latrine with a pestle—screams escaped.

及賈庶人死，乃誅劉振、孫慮、程據等，冊復太子曰：「皇帝使使持節、兼司空、衛尉伊策故皇太子之靈曰：嗚呼！ When Deposed Commoner Jia died, they executed Liu Zhen, Sun Lü, Cheng Ju, and others, and posthumously restored the crown prince; the edict read: "The emperor dispatches the credential-bearer, concurrent Director of Works, Commandant of the Guard Yi to announce by patent to the spirit of the late crown prince: Alas!