Qin and Han · Scholar-Official and Remonstrating Grandee

Xiahou Sheng 夏侯勝

Attested BC 90 - BC 40

Passages
10
Chapters
7
Histories
4

Overview

Xiahou Sheng was a scholar-Official and Remonstrating Grandee.

IdentityHistorical · Male

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Key source chapters

  1. Book of Han, Chapter 101 Volume 89: Upright Officials 4 passages
  2. Book of Han, Chapter 68 Volume 58: Gongsun Hong, Bu Shi and Er Kuan 1 passage
  3. Book of Han, Chapter 85 Volume 74: Wei Xiang and Bing Ji 1 passage
  4. Book of Han, Chapter 89 Volume 78: Xiao Wangzhi 1 passage
  5. History of Jin, Chapter 23 Volume 23 Treatises 4: Five Elements 1 passage

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Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment advanced through Confucian learning (儒術) · Mode historian-judgment
    Directly stated · Book of Han 68, passage 260
  • Assessment had achievements recounted in their age · Mode historian-judgment
    Directly stated · Book of Han 68, passage 260
  • Assessment took the Hong Fan Five Elements as his whole craft; later historians mostly followed such scholars · Mode historian-judgment
    Directly stated · History of Jin 23, passage 4

Source notes

References in the histories

10 passages

Book of Han, Chapter 68Volume 58: Gongsun Hong, Bu Shi and Er Kuan · 1 passage
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孝宣承統，纂修洪業，亦講論六藝，招選茂異，而蕭望之、梁丘賀、夏侯勝、韋玄成、嚴彭祖，尹更始以儒術進，劉向，王褒以文章顯，將相則張安世、趙充國、魏相、丙吉、於定國、杜延年，治民則黃霸、王成、龔遂、鄭弘、召信臣、韓延壽、尹翁歸、趙廣漢、嚴延年、張敞之屬，皆有功跡見述於世。 Emperor Xuan inherited the succession and carried forward the great enterprise. He too expounded the Six Arts and recruited outstanding men. Xiao Wangzhi, Liangqiu He, Xiahou Sheng, Wei Xuancheng, Yan Pengzu, and Yin Gengshi advanced through Confucian learning; Liu Xiang and Wang Bao gained distinction for their writing; among the generals and chancellors were Zhang Anshi, Zhao Chongguo, Wei Xiang, Bing Ji, Yu Dingguo, and Du Yannian; and among those who governed the people were Huang Ba, Wang Cheng, Gong Sui, Zheng Hong, Shao Xinchen, Han Yanshou, Yin Wengui, Zhao Guanghan, Yan Yannian, Zhang Chang, and others. All left achievements celebrated in their age.
Book of Han, Chapter 85Volume 74: Wei Xiang and Bing Ji · 1 passage
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Book of Han, Chapter 89Volume 78: Xiao Wangzhi · 1 passage
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Book of Han, Chapter 101Volume 89: Upright Officials · 4 passages
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守丞相長史，坐公卿大議廷中知長信少府夏侯勝非議詔書大不敬，霸阿從不舉劾，皆下廷尉，繫獄當死。 While serving as chief clerk to the chancellor, he was implicated when, at a grand conference of court nobles, he learned that Xiahou Sheng, director of the Palace of Everlasting Faith, had criticized an imperial edict—a capital offense of great irreverence. Huang Ba connived and failed to impeach him; all were sent to the minister of justice, imprisoned, and sentenced to death.
History of Jin, Chapter 23Volume 23 Treatises 4: Five Elements · 1 passage
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Book of Liang, Chapter 38Volume 38: Zhu Yi; He Chen · 1 passage
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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 112Biographies of the Marquis of Pingjin and Zhufu · 1 passage
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孝宣承統，纂修洪業，亦講論六藝，招選茂異，而蕭望之、梁丘賀、夏侯勝、韋玄成、嚴彭祖、尹更始以儒術進，劉向、王褒以文章顯。 Emperor Xuan inherited the line and continued the great work. He, too, lectured on the Six Arts and selected outstanding scholars. Xiao Wangzhi, Liangqiu He, Xiahou Sheng, Wei Xuancheng, Yan Pengzu, and Yin Gengshi rose through Confucian learning, while Liu Xiang and Wang Bao distinguished themselves through their literary accomplishments.