Qin and Han · Family Member

Younger Sister of Wang Shang 王商女弟

Attested BC 33 - BC 25

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Younger Sister of Wang Shang was a Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 33 to BC 25 成帝時
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 93, passage 99

Family

Sibling of Wang Shang (王商)
younger sister 女弟 · Uncertain siblings
Directly stated · Book of Han 93, passage 99

Career and standing

a slave killed her lover
Implicated in household scandal
Directly stated · Book of Han 93, passage 99

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 93Volume 82: Wang Shang, Shi Dan and Fu Xi · 3 passages

前頻陽耿定上書言商與父傅通，及女弟淫亂，奴殺其私夫，疑商教使。 Earlier Geng Ding of Pinyang memorialized that Wang Shang had slept with his father's concubine, that his younger sister was promiscuous, and that a slave had killed her lover—some suspected Wang Shang had ordered it.

前商女弟內行不修，奴賊殺人，疑商教使，為商重臣，故抑而不窮。 Earlier his younger sister's private conduct was scandalous: a household slave committed murder, and some suspected Wang Shang ordered it. Because he was a pillar of the court, I suppressed the case and did not press to the bottom.

祖父恭有女弟，武帝時爲衞太子良娣，產悼皇考。 His grandfather Shi Gong had a younger sister who, in Emperor Wu's reign, served as a worthy lady attendant to Crown Prince Wei and bore the Lamented Imperial Father.