Chang Si (常思) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Chang Si as a general, military officer, official, and soldier. This record brings together 12 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Chang Si	常思	Chang Si
Surname	Chang	常
Personal name	Chang Si	常思
Courtesy name	Kegong	克恭	Kègōng
Personal	Si	思	Si
Given name	Si	思
Alternate name	Uncle Chang	常叔

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:102:s0093
Sex: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:011:s0019, xinwudaishi:049:s0139

Roles

General
Military Officer
Official
Soldier

Life and dates

Death

Place: Luoyang / 洛陽
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0150

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾祐二年 · Western Year: AD 949
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:102:s0093
Source Date: Text: 乾祐元年 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:011:s0019
Source Date: Text: 唐莊宗 · Western Year: AD 923
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0140
Source Date: Text: 廣順三年 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0148
Source Date: Text: 漢高祖 · Western Year: AD 947
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0142, xinwudaishi:049:s0143

Family

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Kin of Guo Wei (郭威)
Kinship Term: uncle / 叔 · Parentage: claimed · Subject Role: nephew · Object Role: uncle · Relationship State: formed
Kinship Term: uncle / 叔 · Parentage: claimed · Subject Role: uncle · Object Role: nephew
Spouse of Wife of Chang Si (常思妻)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife

Career and standing

Label: Laocheng garrison commander / 牢城指揮使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0142
Label: deputy commander of the Six Armies / 六軍都虞候 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0141
Label: Long Sword commander / 長劍指揮使 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0140
Label: Wusheng military commissioner / 武勝軍節度使 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0143
Title: Grand Councilor / 中書令 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0150

Places and affiliations

Place: Taiyuan / 太原
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0139
Place: Guide / Song / 歸德 / 宋 · Relation: governed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 廣順三年 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0148
Place: Pinglu / Qingzhou / 平盧 / 青州 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0148, xinwudaishi:049:s0150
Place: Zhaoyi / Luzhou / 昭義 / 潞州 · Relation: governed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0143, xinwudaishi:049:s0145

Works and attributed material

Kind: petition · Role: author · Quoted: true · Other Person Id: Guo Wei (郭威)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0148

Events and relationships

Kind: patronage · Role: host · Action: sheltered-orphaned-youth · Other Person Id: Guo Wei (郭威)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0146

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: rose without battle merit; stingy yet extortionate · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · xinwudaishi:049:s0144, xinwudaishi:049:s0145

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 102Volume 102 Book of Later Jin 4: Emperor Yin Annals 2 · 1 passage

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潞州節度使、充河中一行副都署常思加檢校太師； the Lu Prefecture military governor and concurrent deputy commander of the Hezhong campaign Chang Si was given the additional title of Acting Grand Preceptor;

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 11Volume 11 Later Zhou Annals 2: Taizu · 2 passages

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是歲三月，河中李守貞、永興趙思綰、鳳翔王景崇相次反，隱帝遣白文珂、郭從義、常思等分討之，久皆無功。 In the third month of that year Li Shouzhen at Hezhong, Zhao Sixian at Yongxing, and Wang Jingchong at Fengxiang rose one after another. The Hidden Emperor dispatched Bai Wenke, Guo Congyi, Chang Si, and others on separate campaigns, yet month after month they could not break the rebels.

威至河中，自柵其城東，思柵其南，文珂柵其西，調五縣丁二萬人築連壘以護三柵。 At Hezhong Wei walled the east, Chang Si the south, and Bai Wenke the west, while twenty thousand laborers from five counties threw up connecting works to guard the three siegelines.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 49Volume 49 Miscellaneous Biographies 29: Di Guangye, Feng Hui, Huang Fuhui, Tang Jingsi, Wang Jin, Chang Si, Sun Fangjian · 9 passages

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常思 Chang Si

常思字克恭，太原人也。 Chang Si, styled Kegong, came from Taiyuan.

漢高祖為河東節度使，以思為牢城指揮使。 When Han Gaozu governed Hedong, he made Si commander of the Laocheng garrison.

高祖入立，領武勝軍節度使，徙鎮昭義。 When Gaozu took the throne, Si held the Wusheng commission and was shifted to Zhaoyi.

思起軍卒，未嘗有戰功，徒以幸會漢興，遂秉旄節。 Si rose from the ranks without battle merit and held a commissioner’s baton only by the luck of Han’s rise.

初，思微時，周太祖方少孤無依，食于思家，以思為叔，後思與周太祖俱遭漢以取富貴。 When Si was still obscure, young Zhou Taizu was orphaned and ate at his home, calling him uncle. Later both rode Han’s rise to wealth and rank.

周太祖已即位，每呼思為常叔，拜其妻，如家人禮。 Once Zhou Taizu reigned, he always called Si Uncle Chang and bowed to his wife as kin.

廣順三年，徙鎮歸德，居三年來朝，又徙平盧，思因啟曰：「臣居宋，宋民負臣絲息十萬兩，願以券上進。」 In the third year of Guangshun he was moved to Guide. Three years later he came to court, then was shifted to Pinglu. Si petitioned: "When I governed Song, the people owed me one hundred thousand taels in silk interest. I wish to present the bonds to Your Majesty."

思居青州，踰年得疾，歸于洛陽，卒，贈中書令。 At Qingzhou he fell ill within a year, returned to Luoyang, and died. He was posthumously made Grand Councilor.