Gongzi Qian (公子虔)

Overview

The translated histories identify Gongzi Qian as a royal family member and teacher. This record brings together 5 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	Gongzi Qian	公子虔	Gongzi Qian
Personal name	Gongzi Qian	公子虔	Gongzi Qian

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Value: male
Explicit · shiji:068:s0089

Roles

Royal Family Member
Teacher

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 刑其傅公子虔 · Western Interval: Start: BC 361 · End: BC 338
Explicit event contextual date · shiji:068:s0089, shiji:068:s0102

Career and standing

Status: seclusion · Action: entered · Label: shut his door for eight years / 杜門不出已八年矣
Explicit · shiji:068:s0163
Status: mutilation · Action: suffered · Label: nose cut off / 劓 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 行之四年 · Western Interval: Start: BC 357 · End: BC 350
Explicit · shiji:068:s0102
Status: corporal-punishment · Action: suffered · Label: punished/tattooed as tutor proxy / 刑
Explicit · shiji:068:s0089

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: accuser-faction · Action: denounced-as-rebel · Other Person Id: Shang Yang (商鞅)
Explicit · shiji:068:s0175
Relation: teacher-of · Person Id: King Hui of Qin (秦惠王)
Explicit · shiji:068:s0089

References in the histories

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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 68Biography of Lord Shang · 5 passages

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太子，君嗣也，不可施刑，刑其傅公子虔，黥其師公孫賈。 The crown prince is the ruler's heir and cannot be punished. Instead, his tutor Gongzi Qian was tattooed and his teacher Gongsun Jia was branded.

行之四年，公子虔復犯約，劓之。 After four years of implementation, Gongzi Qian again violated the agreement and had his nose cut off.

公子虔杜門不出已八年矣，君又殺祝懽而黥公孫賈。 Gongzi Qian has shut his door and not gone out for eight years already; Your Lordship has again killed Zhu Huan and tattooed Gongsun Jia.

公子虔之徒告商君欲反，發吏捕商君。 The followers of Gongzi Qian reported that Lord Shang meant to rebel, and officials were dispatched to arrest him.

且所因由嬖臣，及得用，刑公子虔，欺魏將卬，不師趙良之言，亦足發明商君之少恩矣。 Moreover, what he relied on was a favored minister; once he obtained power, he punished Gongzi Qian, deceived the Wei general Ang, and did not follow Zhao Liang's words—this was also sufficient to reveal Lord Shang's lack of kindness.