Qin and Han · Grand Minister of Works

Zhen Feng 甄豐

First attested BC 1; died AD 9

Passages: 4
Chapters: 3
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhen Feng was a Grand Minister of Works.

Life and dates

Death

AD 9 莽誅豐父子
Execution · Authority Wang Mang (王莽)
Directly stated · Book of Han 99, passage 197

Attested activity

BC 1 to AD 5 平帝即位
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 117, passage 281
AD 9 王莽時，劉歆、甄豐
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 99, passage 196
c. AD 9 to c. AD 10 王莽時
Strongly inferred · Book of Han 38, passage 267

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Zhen Xun (甄尋)
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Han 99, passage 196

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Grand Minister of Works 大司空
Held
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 281
high duke 上公
Held
Directly stated · Book of Han 99, passage 196

Places and affiliations

Polity Western Han 西漢 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Han 117, passage 281
Polity Xin 新 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Han 38, passage 267

Events and relationships

Impeached Gongsun Hong and Ban Zhi
Legal · Impeacher · With Gongsun Hong (公孫閎)
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 281
Received and sponsored Huan Tan river control proposal
Administrative · Superior official · With Huan Tan (桓譚)
Directly stated · Book of Han 38, passages 267, 270

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 75

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 38Volume 29: Treatise on Rivers and Canals · 1 passage

沛郡桓譚為司空掾，典其議，為甄豐言：「凡此數者，必有一是。 Huan Tan of Pei, serving as a Works clerk, oversaw the debate and told Zhen Feng: "Among these proposals, at least one is correct.

Book of Han, Chapter 99Volume 87b: Yang Xiong 2 · 2 passages

王莽時，劉歆、甄豐皆為上公，莽既以符命自立，即位之後，欲絕其原以神前事，而豐子尋、歆子棻復獻之。 Under Wang Mang, Liu Xin and Zhen Feng stood among the highest nobles. Mang had risen on forged portents and, once enthroned, tried to bury their origin and cast the earlier events as divine, yet Zhen Feng's son Xun and Liu Xin's son Fen again submitted such documents.

莽誅豐父子，投□四裔，辭所連及，便收不請。 Mang executed the Zhens and banished their kin to the frontiers; anyone named in the indictments was seized without warrant.

Book of Han, Chapter 117Volume 100a: Afterword and Family History 1 · 1 passage

琅邪太守公孫閎言災害於公府，大司空甄豐遣屬馳至兩郡諷吏民，而劾閎空造不祥，穉絕嘉應，嫉害聖政，皆不道。 Langye administrator Gongsun Hong reported disasters to the capital; Grand Minister of Works Zhen Feng sent aides racing to both commanderies to warn officials and people, then impeached Hong for inventing ill omens and Zhi for withholding auspicious responses and obstructing the sage government—both accused of capital crimes.