Qin and Han · Marquis of Anyang

Zhou Zuoche 周左車

Attested BC 209 - BC 141

Passages: 2
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Zhou Zuoche was a Marquis of Anyang.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal name	Zuoju	左車	Zuoju

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 149 中元年
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 11, passage 56
BC 209 to BC 141 漢初
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 51, passage 80

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Descendant of Zhou Chang (周昌)
grandson 孫 · 2 generations
Directly stated · Book of Han 51, passage 80; Records of the Grand Historian 11, passage 56
Child of Son of Zhou Chang (周昌子)
father 父 · Uncertain parentage
Strongly inferred · Book of Han 51, passage 80
Child of Child of Zhou Chang (周昌子)
parent 父
Strongly inferred · Records of the Grand Historian 11, passage 56

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Marquis of Anyang 安陽侯
BC 149 中元年 · Enfeoffed
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 11, passage 56

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 51Volume 42: Zhang, Zhou, Zhao, Ren and Shentu · 1 passage

景帝復封昌孫左車為安陽侯，有罪，國除。 Emperor Jing later restored the line, enfeoffing Zhou Chang's grandson Zuoche as marquis of Anyang, but that fief, too, was stripped after a conviction.

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 11Annals of the Xiaojing Emperor · 1 passage

中元年，封故御史大夫周苛孫平為繩侯，故御史大夫周昌（子）［孫］左車為安陽侯，四月乙巳，赦天下，賜爵一級。 In the first year of the middle period, he enfeoffed Ping, grandson of the former Grandee Secretary Zhou Ke, as Marquis of Sheng, and Zuoju, grandson of the former Grandee Secretary Zhou Chang, as Marquis of Anyang. On the yisi day of the fourth month, he granted a general amnesty throughout the empire and bestowed one grade of noble rank.