Qin and Han · General

Feng Fengshi 馮奉世

Attested BC 87 - BC 42

Passages
40
Chapters
3
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Feng Fengshi as an envoy, general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 40 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Feng Fengshi 馮奉世 Feng Fengshi
Surname Feng Feng
Personal name Feng Fengshi 馮奉世 Feng Fengshi
Personal Feng Fengshi 馮奉世 Féng Fèngshì
Given name Fengshi 奉世 Fengshi
Courtesy name Ziming 子明 Ziming

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Envoy
  • General
  • Military Officer
  • Official

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 元帝即位 · Western Year: BC 48
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:090:s0038
  • Source Date: Text: 昭帝時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 87 · End: BC 74
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:090:s0011
  • Source Date: Text: 本始中 · Western Interval: Start: BC 73 · End: BC 70
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:090:s0013
  • Source Date: Text: 武帝末 · Western Year: BC 87
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:090:s0010
  • Source Date: Text: 永光二年秋 · Western Year: BC 42
    Explicit · hanshu:090:s0043
  • Source Date: Text: 永光二年秋七月 · Western Year: BC 42
    Explicit · hanshu:010:s0157

Family

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  • Parent of Feng Yuan (馮媛)
    Kinship Term: eldest daughter / 長女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter · Object Birth Order: 1
  • Parent of Feng Tan (馮譚)
    Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 1
  • Descendant of Feng Ting (馮亭)
    Kinship Term: his forebear / 其先
  • Parent of Feng Yewang (馮野王)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Feng Can (馮參)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Feng Jun (馮逡)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Feng Li (馮立)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: court gentleman / 郎 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · hanshu:090:s0010
  • Label: director of the army works command / 軍司空令 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · hanshu:090:s0012
  • Label: grand counselor of the palace / 光祿大夫 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · hanshu:090:s0037
  • Label: guard commandant / 衛候 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · hanshu:090:s0017
  • Label: left general / 左將軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · hanshu:090:s0095
  • Label: magistrate of Wu'an / 武安長 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · hanshu:090:s0011
  • Label: metropolitan commandant / 執金吾 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · hanshu:090:s0038
  • Label: right general and director of dependent states / 右將軍典屬國 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · hanshu:090:s0041
  • Label: superintendent of the household / 光祿勳 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · hanshu:090:s0042
  • Label: superintendent of the palace parks / 水衡都尉 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · hanshu:090:s0037
  • Label: Right General / 右將軍 · Action: held
    Explicit · hanshu:010:s0157
  • Title: general of the left
    Explicit · hanshu:105:s0095
  • Label: good fief of five hundred households / 良邑五百戶 · Action: granted
    Explicit · hanshu:090:s0098
  • Title: marquis within the passes / 關內侯 · Action: granted
    Explicit · hanshu:090:s0098

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Place: Longxi / 隴西
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Place: Shache / 莎車
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: struck-Western-Qiang · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永光二年秋七月 · Western Year: BC 42
    Explicit · hanshu:010:s0157

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: merit second only to Zhao Chongguo · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · hanshu:090:s0101

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 10Volume 9: Annals of Emperor Yuan · 1 passage
Book of Han, Chapter 90Volume 79: Feng Fengshi · 38 passages
Book of Han, Chapter 105Volume 93: Flatterers · 1 passage