Qin and Han · Military Officer and Aristocrat

Dou Shao 竇紹

First attested AD 165; died AD 168

Passages: 7
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Dou Shao was a Military Officer and Aristocrat.

Life and dates

Death

AD 168 八月
Suicide · At near Luoyang capital pavilion 洛陽都亭
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 76, passage 78

Attested activity

AD 168 八月
Dated from the passage context · Book of Later Han 76, passages 69, 78
AD 165 to AD 168 延熹至建宁
Dated from the passage context · Book of Later Han 76, passages 9, 22

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Kin of Dou Wu (竇武)
brother's son 兄子 · Through Elder brother of Dou Wu (竇武兄)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 76, passage 9
Child of Elder brother of Dou Wu (竇武兄)
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 76, passage 9
Sibling of Dou Jing (竇靖)
younger brother 弟 · Full siblings
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 76, passage 23

Career and standing

leader of the palace tiger guard 虎賁中郎將
Held
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 76, passage 9
colonel of the footsoldiers 步兵校尉
Promoted
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 76, passage 22
Marquis of Hu 鄠侯
Enfeoffed
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 76, passage 22
Suffered
Heads displayed · At Luoyang capital pavilion 洛陽都亭
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 76, passage 78

Places and affiliations

Polity Eastern Han 東漢 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Later Han 76, passages 9, 69

Events and relationships

Reformed after remonstrance
Personal · Subject
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 76, passage 11
Shot envoys
AD 168 八月 · Military · Co commander · With Dou Wu (竇武)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 76, passage 69

Assessments and attributes

Assessment careless temperament and extravagant · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 76, passage 9

References in the histories

Book of Later Han, Chapter 76Volume 69: Biographies of Dou, He · 7 passages

兄子紹，為虎賁中郎將，性疏簡奢侈。 His nephew Dou Shao commanded the palace tiger guard; he was careless by temperament and lived lavishly.

武每數切厲相戒，猶不覺悟，乃上書求退紹位，又自責不能訓導，當先受罪。 Dou Wu remonstrated with him sharply time and again, but the young man did not reform; Dou Wu then memorialized asking that Shao be dismissed and declared himself unfit as a mentor, offering to accept punishment first.

由是紹更遵節，大小莫敢違犯。 After that Dou Shao minded his conduct, and everyone in the household obeyed without exception.

兄子紹鄠侯，遷步兵校尉； his nephew Dou Shao was enfeoffed as Marquis of Hu and promoted to colonel of the footsoldiers;

紹弟靖西鄉侯，為侍中，監羽林左騎。 Dou Shao's younger brother Dou Jing was made Marquis of Xixiang, served as palace attendant, and oversaw the left wing of the Feathered Forest guard.

武不受詔，馳入步兵營，與紹共射殺使者。 Dou Wu rejected the edict as forged, galloped to the footsoldiers' camp, and with Dou Shao shot the envoys dead.

武、紹走，諸軍追圍之，皆自殺，梟首洛陽都亭。 Dou Wu and Dou Shao fled, were run to ground by government troops, and killed themselves; their heads were spiked at the Luoyang guard post.