Liang Shang 梁商

Other names

Family

• Parent of Daughter of Liang Shang (梁商女)
  daughter 女
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passages 113-114
• Spouse of Lady Yin (陰氏)
  lady/wife 夫人 · Widowed
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 118
• Child of Liang Yong (梁雍)
  son 子
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 110
• Parent of Liang Ji (梁冀)
  son 子
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passages 115, 147
• Parent of Liang Buyi (梁不疑)
  son 子
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 124
• Parent of Liang Meng (梁蒙)
  son 子
  Strongly inferred · Book of Later Han 39, passage 164
• Sibling of Younger Sister of Liang Shang (梁商妹)
  younger sister 妹 · Uncertain siblings
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passages 113-114

• Kinship Role daughters · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 113
• Kinship Role sons · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passages 134, 143
• Kinship Role younger sisters · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 113

Career and standing

• Colonel of Garrison Cavalry 屯騎校尉
  AD 128 永建三年 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 113
• Palace Attendant 侍中
  AD 128 永建三年 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 113
• Grand General 大將軍
  AD 134 陽嘉三年 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 116
• Bearer of the Golden Mace 執金吾
  AD 132 陽嘉元年 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 114
• Gentleman Consultant 郎中
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 111
• Gentleman of the Yellow Gates 黃門侍郎
  Transferred
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 111

Places and affiliations

• Polity Eastern Han 東漢 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · Book of Later Han 39, passage 110
• At Xuanyang Pavilion 宣陽亭 · Relation Funeral cortege viewed from
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 146

Works and attributed material

• Deathbed charge · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Liang Ji (梁冀)
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passages 134-142
• Memorial · Author · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passages 129-132

Events and relationships

• Accepted commission at court
  AD 135 陽嘉四年 · Political · Appointee · With Huan Yan (桓焉)
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 117
• Distributed grain in famine
  Relief · Benefactor
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 121
• Feigned illness to decline
  AD 134 陽嘉三年 · Political · Appointee
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 116
• Imperial funeral honors overrode plain burial wish
  AD 141 永和六年 · Ritual · Deceased
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passages 143-146
• Memorialized to limit guilt by association
  AD 139 永和四年 · Political · Petitioner
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passages 129, 133
• Refused enfeoffment for son
  AD 133 陽嘉二年 · Political · Recipient · With Liang Ji (梁冀)
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 115

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment modest; welcomed worthies · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 119
• Assessment praised as a fine pillar of state · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 120
• Assessment restrained his clan; did not abuse the law · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 122
• Assessment timid and lacked decisive awe; indulged eunuchs · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 123
• AD 132 陽嘉元年
  Item secure carriage with four horses 安車駟馬 · Relation Bestowed
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 114
• Item eastern-garden red lacquer coffin and mortuary gear 東園朱壽器、銀鏤、黃腸、玉匣、什物 · Relation Bestowed
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 39, passage 143