Liang Song (梁松) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Liang Song as a courtier, military officer, and official. This record brings together 8 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liang Song	梁松	Liang Song
Title	Commander of the Tiger Guard	虎贲中郎將	Huben zhonglangjiang
Personal name	Liang Song	梁松	Liang Song
Personal name	Liang Song	梁松	Liáng Sōng
Personal name	Song	松	Song
Surname	Song	松

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · houhanshu:108:s0098, houhanshu:110:s0105

Roles

Courtier
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: executed
Explicit · houhanshu:110:s0106

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 建武三十二年 · Western Year: AD 56
Explicit · houhanshu:108:s0053, houhanshu:108:s0076
Source Date: Text: 建武三十年三月 · Western Year: AD 54
Explicit · houhanshu:108:s0097, houhanshu:108:s0098
Source Date: Text: 建武中元封禅之后 · Western Year: AD 56
Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:110:s0105

Career and standing

Label: Commander of the Tiger Guard / 虎贲中郎將 · Action: held
Explicit · houhanshu:108:s0098
Status: execution · Action: suffered
Explicit · houhanshu:110:s0106

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Emperor Guangwu of Han (漢光武帝) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建武三十二年 · Western Year: AD 56
Explicit · houhanshu:108:s0076, houhanshu:108:s0077, houhanshu:108:s0078, houhanshu:108:s0079, houhanshu:108:s0080
Kind: deliberation · Role: speaker · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建武三十年 · Western Year: AD 54
Explicit · houhanshu:108:s0098, houhanshu:108:s0099, houhanshu:108:s0100

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: advocate · Action: argued-to-change-feng-rite
Explicit · houhanshu:110:s0105

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: punished-for-profaning-the-gods · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · houhanshu:110:s0107

References in the histories

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Book of Later Han, Chapter 108Volume 97: Rituals and Worship Part One · 6 passages

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時，虎贲中郎將梁松等议：「《記》曰'齊將有事泰山，先有事配林'，蓋諸侯之禮也。 At that time Liang Song, commander of the Tiger Guard, and others argued: "The Record says, 'When Qi is about to perform rites at Mount Tai, it first performs rites at Peilin'—that is essentially the feudal-lord protocol.

感此文，乃詔松等复案索《河》、《雒》讖文言九世封禅事者。 Stirred by these lines, he instructed Liang Song and his colleagues to comb the Yellow River and Luo River apocrypha for passages on the ninth-generation feng and shan.

松等列奏，乃許焉。 Liang Song and the others laid their findings before the throne, and the emperor gave his assent.

上許梁松等奏，乃求元封時封禅故事，议封禅所施用。 The emperor approved the memorial from Liang Song and his colleagues, ordered a search for Western Han precedents from the Yuanfeng performance, and convened discussion of the equipment and ritual program.

上以用石功难，又欲及二月封，故詔松欲因故封石空檢，更加封而已。 Because quarrying new stone would be slow and he hoped to perform the feng in the second month, he initially told Liang Song to reuse the old Western Han block, hollow out a new cavity in its seal, and simply reseal it.

松上疏争之，以爲「登封之禮，告功皇天，垂后無窮，以爲萬民也。 Liang Song protested in a memorial: “The feng rite proclaims your achievement to Heaven and must stand for ages to come on behalf of the people.

Book of Later Han, Chapter 110Volume 99: Rituals and Worship Part Three · 2 passages

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而梁松固争，以为必改。 But Liang Song insisted the ceremony had to be reinvented.

乃当夫既封之后，未有福，而松卒被诛死。 After the deed was done heaven sent no favor, and Song himself died under the headsman’s blade.