Fu Cunshen (符存審) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Fu Cunshen as an aristocrat, general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 11 passages from 7 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Fu Cunshen	符存審	Fu Cunshen
Given	Cunjian	存審	Cúnshěn
Given name	Cunshen	存審	Cunshen
Personal name	Cunshen	存審	Cúnshěn
Personal name	Fu Cunjian	符存審	Fú Cúnshěn
Personal	Fu Cunshen	符存審
Personal name	Fu Cunshen	符存審	Fu Cunshen
Title	Prince of Qin	秦王
Noble title	Prince of Qin	秦王	Qín wáng
Title	Prince of Qin Cunshen	秦王存審

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:062:s0097, jiuwudaishi:121:s0057, liaoshi:002:s0069, xinwudaishi:019:s0025, xinwudaishi:020:s0024, xinwudaishi:032:s0075
Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:042:s0041

Roles

Aristocrat
General
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 事後唐武皇、莊宗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 880 · End: AD 926
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0095
Source Date: Text: 其祖秦王存審 · Western Interval: Start: AD 900 · End: AD 926
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:020:s0024
Source Date: Text: 十九年 · Western Year: AD 922
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:062:s0097
Source Date: Text: 天祐末 · Western Year: AD 921
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0057
Source Date: Text: 天贊二年 · Western Year: AD 923
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:002:s0069
Source Date: Text: 莊宗時 · Western Year: AD 923
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:032:s0075
Source Date: Text: 莊宗遣幽州符存審 · Western Interval: Start: AD 923 · End: AD 926
Explicit · xinwudaishi:019:s0025
Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:042:s0041

Family

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Parent of Fu Yanqing (符彥卿)
Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Generation Distance: 1
Kinship Term: father of Yanqing / 祖/父 · Parentage: biological
Ancestor of Empress Xuanyi Fu (宣懿皇后符氏)
Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2
Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2

Career and standing

Label: northern campaign commissioner / 北面招討使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:062:s0097
Label: Bianzhou military commissioner / 汴州節度使 · Action: formerly-held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0041
Title: Prince of Qin / 秦王 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0024
Title: Prince of Qin / 秦王 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0095
Status: deceased · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0041

Places and affiliations

Polity: Later Tang / 後唐 · Relation: served
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0095
Place: Youzhou / 幽州 · Relation: posted-from
Explicit · xinwudaishi:019:s0025

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: attacked-Zhenzhou
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:062:s0097, jiuwudaishi:062:s0100
Kind: ritual · Role: honored deceased · Action: collaterally offered in Zhuangzong's temple · Other Person Id: Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang (後唐莊宗) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0041
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: punitive-campaign · Other Person Id: Wang Deming (王德明)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:019:s0025
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: sent-to-rescue-Pei-Yue · Other Person Id: Pei Yue (裴約)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:032:s0075, xinwudaishi:032:s0076, xinwudaishi:032:s0077
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: suppressed Zhang Wenli · Other Person Id: Wang Deming (王德明) · Source Date: Text: 天祐末 · Western Year: AD 921
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:121:s0057

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · xinwudaishi:032:s0075

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 1 passage

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故昭義節度使李嗣昭、故幽州節度使周德威、故汴州節度使符存審，並配饗莊宗廟廷。 Li Sizhao, Zhou Dewei, and Fu Cunshen were given collateral offerings in Zhuangzong's temple.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 62Volume 62 Book of Later Tang 38: Biographies 14: Meng Fangli, Zhang Wenli, Dong Zhang · 2 passages

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存進亦以戰歿，乃以符存審為北面招討使，攻鎮州。 Cunjin too fell in battle, and Fu Cunshen was appointed northern campaign commissioner to besiege Zhenzhou.

俄而符存審師至城下。 Soon afterward Fu Cunshen's army reached the walls.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 121Volume 121 Book of Later Zhou 23: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 2 passages

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天祐末，趙將張文禮殺王镕，以鎮州歸梁，莊宗命將符存審討平之。 At the end of Tianyou the Zhao general Zhang Wenli killed Wang Rong and surrendered Zhenzhou to Liang; Zhuangzong sent Fu Cunshen to suppress him.

宣懿皇后符氏，祖存審，事後唐武皇、莊宗，位極將相，追封秦王。 Empress Xuanyi, née Fu, was granddaughter of Cunshen, who served Later Tang's Martial Emperor and Zhuangzong, rose to the highest ranks of general and minister, and was posthumously enfeoffed as Prince of Qin.

History of Liao, Chapter 2Volume 2 Annals 2: Taizu 2 · 1 passage

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庚申，堯骨軍幽州東，節度使符存審遣人出戰，敗之，擒其將裴信父子。 On gengshen day Yaogu's army reached east of Youzhou; Military Governor Fu Cunshen sent troops out to give battle; they were beaten, and General Pei Xin and his son were taken prisoner.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 19Volume 19: Taizu of Later Zhou's Family · 1 passage

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熔死，鎮州亂，莊宗遣幽州符存審以兵討張文禮，裨將武從諫館於妃家，見妃尚幼，憐之，而從諫家在太原，遂以妃歸，為其子婦。 After Rong's death threw Zhen Prefecture into chaos, Zhuangzong sent Fu Cunjian from Youzhou against Zhang Wenli. The subordinate commander Wu Congjian was quartered at her family's house, took pity on the girl still in her youth, and—his own family being in Taiyuan—brought her home as a daughter-in-law.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 20Volume 20: Shizong of Later Zhou's Family · 2 passages

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宣懿皇后符氏，其祖秦王存審，父魏王彥卿。 Empress Xuanyi of the Fu clan was descended from Prince of Qin Cunshen on her grandfather's side and from Prince of Wei Yanqing on her father's.

漢兵入其家，後儼然坐堂上，顧軍士曰：「郭公與吾王父有舊，汝輩無犯我！」 When Han soldiers entered the house she sat composed in the hall and told the troops: "Lord Guo and my grandfather were old friends—you must not touch me!"

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 32Volume 32 Biographies of Martyrs to Virtue 12: Wang Yanzhang · 2 passages

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顧符存審曰：「吾不惜澤州與梁，一州易得，約難得也。 He turned to Fu Cunjian and said: "I would give Liang Ze Prefecture without regret—one prefecture is cheap; Yue is not.

存審以五千騎馳至遼州，而梁兵已破澤州，約見殺。 Cunjian raced with five thousand cavalry to Lia Prefecture—but Liang had already taken Ze and Yue was dead.