Geng Ding (耿定) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Geng Ding as an official. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Geng Ding	耿定	Gěng Dìng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Value: male
Explicit · hanshu:093:s0099

Roles

Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 成帝時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 33 · End: BC 25
Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:093:s0099

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Statement: accused Wang Shang of sexual misconduct and involvement in murder · Other Person Id: Wang Shang (王商)
Explicit · hanshu:093:s0099

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 93Volume 82: Wang Shang, Shi Dan and Fu Xi · 2 passages

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前頻陽耿定上書言商與父傅通，及女弟淫亂，奴殺其私夫，疑商教使。 Earlier Geng Ding of Pinyang memorialized that Wang Shang had slept with his father's concubine, that his younger sister was promiscuous, and that a slave had killed her lover—some suspected Wang Shang had ordered it.

商不盡忠納善以輔至德，知聖主崇孝，遠別不親，後庭之事皆受命皇太后，太后前聞商有女，欲以備後宮，商言有固疾，後有耿定事，更詭道因李貴人家內女，執左道以亂政，誣罔悖大臣節，故應是而日蝕。 Wang Shang has not served with full loyalty or accepted good counsel to support your supreme virtue. Knowing that a sage ruler honors filial piety and that the empress dowager governs the inner palace, he refused when the empress dowager earlier asked for his daughter for the harem, pleading chronic illness. After the Geng Ding affair he tried again through the household of the newly favored Lady Li to smuggle a daughter inside. He practices heterodox ways that corrupt government and violates every standard of a chief minister—hence the eclipse.