Han Shufeng (韓叔豐)

Overview

Han Shufeng was a Father of Han Jian.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 897 to AD 898 諫建
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 40, passage 224

References in the histories

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 40Volume 40 Miscellaneous Biographies 20: Li Maozhen, Han Jian, Li Renfu, Han Xun, Yang Chongben, Gao Wanxing, Wen Tao · 1 passage

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其父叔豐謂建曰：「汝陳、許間一田夫爾，遭時之亂，蒙天子厚恩至此，欲以兩州百里之地行大事，覆族之禍，吾不忍見，不如先死！」 His father Shufeng told him: “You were a farmer between Chen and Xu. In these troubled times the emperor raised you this high. To attempt a coup with two prefectures and a hundred li is to invite the ruin of our whole clan. I cannot watch it—let me die first!”