Qin and Han · Administrator

Gong Sui 龔遂

Attested BC 74 - BC 48

Passages
33
Chapters
3
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Gong Sui as an administrator, courtier, and official. This record brings together 33 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Gong Sui 龔遂 Gong Sui
Personal name Gong Sui 龔遂 Gong Sui
Courtesy name Shaoqing 少卿 Shaoqing
Given name Sui 遂
Given 遂 Sui
Surname 龔 Gong

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Courtier
  • Official

Life and dates

Death

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 孝宣承統 · Western Interval: Start: BC 74 · End: BC 48
    Explicit · hanshu:068:s0260
  • Source Date: Text: 宣帝即位 · Western Interval: Start: BC 74 · End: BC 49
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:101:s0166
  • Source Date: Text: 昭帝崩…昌邑王賀嗣立 · Western Year: BC 74
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:101:s0160
  • Source Date: Text: 龔遂 · Western Interval: Start: BC 73 · End: BC 49
    Explicit · beiqishu:046:s0181

Career and standing

  • Label: Governor of Bohai / 渤海太守 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · hanshu:101:s0167
  • Label: Superintendent of the imperial parks / 水衡都尉 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · hanshu:101:s0198
  • Label: Chief of palace gentlemen of Changyi / 昌邑郎中令 · Action: held
    Explicit · hanshu:101:s0141
  • Status: penal-labor · Action: commuted-from-death · Co Accused Person Id: Wang Yang (王陽)
    Explicit · hanshu:101:s0165

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: governed the people (治民) · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · hanshu:068:s0260
  • Assessment: had achievements recounted in their age · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · hanshu:068:s0260

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 46Volume 46 Biographies 38: Good Officials · 1 passage
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Book of Han, Chapter 68Volume 58: Gongsun Hong, Bu Shi and Er Kuan · 1 passage
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孝宣承統，纂修洪業，亦講論六藝，招選茂異，而蕭望之、梁丘賀、夏侯勝、韋玄成、嚴彭祖，尹更始以儒術進，劉向，王褒以文章顯，將相則張安世、趙充國、魏相、丙吉、於定國、杜延年，治民則黃霸、王成、龔遂、鄭弘、召信臣、韓延壽、尹翁歸、趙廣漢、嚴延年、張敞之屬，皆有功跡見述於世。 Emperor Xuan inherited the succession and carried forward the great enterprise. He too expounded the Six Arts and recruited outstanding men. Xiao Wangzhi, Liangqiu He, Xiahou Sheng, Wei Xuancheng, Yan Pengzu, and Yin Gengshi advanced through Confucian learning; Liu Xiang and Wang Bao gained distinction for their writing; among the generals and chancellors were Zhang Anshi, Zhao Chongguo, Wei Xiang, Bing Ji, Yu Dingguo, and Du Yannian; and among those who governed the people were Huang Ba, Wang Cheng, Gong Sui, Zheng Hong, Shao Xinchen, Han Yanshou, Yin Wengui, Zhao Guanghan, Yan Yannian, Zhang Chang, and others. All left achievements celebrated in their age.
Book of Han, Chapter 101Volume 89: Upright Officials · 31 passages
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王相安樂遷長樂衛尉，遂見安樂，流涕謂曰：「王立為天子，日益驕溢，諫之不復聽，今哀痛未盡，日與近臣飲食作樂，鬥虎豹，召皮軒，車九流，驅馳東西，所為悖道。 Royal tutor Anle had become commandant of the Changle palace guard. Gong Sui went to him in tears: "Our lord is emperor now and grows more arrogant by the day; he ignores every remonstrance. Mourning for the late emperor is not finished, yet he feasts and sports with favorites, pits tigers and leopards, rides out in leather-canopied chariots followed by long trains of vehicles (the text reads 'nine currents'), and races east and west—conduct that flouts every decent rule.