An Sishun (安思順) | 24 Histories

Overview

An Sishun was a general and Official.

Life and dates

Death

AD 756 其年三月
Executed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 283

Attested activity

AD 756 其年三月
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passages 282-283
AD 750 其載
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 75

Family

Sibling of Yuanzhen (元貞)
younger brother 弟 · Full siblings
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 283

Exiled beyond the Ling ranges
Kinship Role family members · Quantity unspecified
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 283

Career and standing

Military Commissioner of Hexi 河西節度使
AD 750 其載 · Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 75
Minister of Revenue 戶部尚書
AD 756 十五載 · Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 282
Military Commissioner of Hexi 河西節度使
AD 750 其載 · Retained
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 76
false accusation of secret communication with An Lushan 誣奏與祿山潛通
AD 756 十五載 · Suffered · Authority Ge Shuhan (哥舒翰)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 282

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 75
Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 282
AD 756 其年三月
At beyond the Ling ranges 嶺外 · Relation Family exiled to
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 283

Events and relationships

Stirred frontier tribes to petition retention
Political · Inciter
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 76

Assessments and attributes

Assessment the realm judged his execution a gross injustice · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 283

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 282

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 104Volume 100 Biographies 50: Yin Sizhen, Li Jie, Jie Wan, Bi Gou, Su Xiang, Zheng Weizhong, Wang Zhiyin, Lu Congyuan, Li Chaoyin, Pei Cui, Wang Qiu · 4 passages

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其載，入朝，拜開府儀同三司，尋除武威太守、河西節度使，代安思順。 That year he came to court as Grand Master for Splendid Happiness with the Ceremonial of the Three Dukes, then was made prefect of Wuwei and commissioner of Hexi in place of An Sishun.

思順諷群胡割耳捴面請留，監察御史裴周南奏之，制復留思順，以仙芝為右羽林大將軍。 Sishun stirred the frontier tribes to mutilate themselves in petition to keep him; Censor Pei Zhounan reported it; the emperor retained Sishun and made Xianzhi grand general of the Right Forest of Feathers.

翰之守潼關也，主天下兵權，肆誌報怨，誣奏戶部尚書安思順與祿山潛通，偽令人為祿山遺思順書，於關門擒之以獻。 While holding Tong Pass Han wielded imperial military power, indulged revenge, and falsely accused Revenue Minister An Sishun of communicating with Lushan — forging a letter, seizing Sishun at the gate, and presenting him to court.

其年三月，思順及弟太仆卿元貞坐誅，徙其家屬於嶺外，天下冤之。 That third month Sishun and his brother Yuanzhen, Grand Master of the Stud, were executed and their families exiled beyond the Ling ranges — the realm judged it a gross injustice.