Ancient China · Scholar

Min Sun 閔

Attested BC 536 - BC 487

Passages
12
Chapters
11
Histories
6

Overview

The translated histories identify Min Sun as a philosopher, scholar, and student. This record brings together 12 passages from 11 chapters across 6 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Min Sun 閔 Min Sun
Surname Min 閔 Min
Surname Min 閔
Personal name Min 閔 Min
Surname Min 閔 Mǐn
Personal name Min Sun 閔損
Personal Min Sun 損 Mǐn Sǔn
Personal Min Ziqian 閔 Min
Personal Min Ziqian 閔子騫 Mǐn Zǐqiān
Personal name Min Ziqian 閔子騫
Personal name Min Ziqian 閔
Personal name Min Ziqian 閔子騫 Mǐn Zǐqiān
Personal name Min Ziqian 閔子騫 Min Ziqian
Courtesy name Qian 騫
Courtesy Ziqian 子騫 Zǐqiān
Courtesy name Ziqian 子騫 Zǐqiān
Courtesy name Ziqian 子騫
Alternate name 騫

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Philosopher
  • Scholar
  • Student

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 元嘉三年後庭誥引述 · Western Interval: Start: AD 426 · End: AD 433
    Explicit event contextual date · songshu:073:s0041, songshu:073:s0062, songshu:073:s0087
  • Source Date: Text: 子騫 · Western Year: BC 500
    Explicit · qingshigao:483:s0120
  • Source Date: Text: 德行顏、閔 · Western Interval: Start: BC 536 · End: BC 487
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:099:s0176
  • Source Date: Text: 時人方之閔子騫原憲 · Western Interval: Start: AD 581 · End: AD 604
    Explicit event contextual date · suishu:077:s0247
  • Source Date: Text: 曾、閔 · Western Year: c. BC 500
    Explicit · houhanshu:037:s0221
  • Western Year: BC 500 · Source Date: Text: 祖述回、騫
    Strongly inferred · liangshu:030:s0201
  • Source Date: Text: 閔損 · Western Interval: Start: BC 536 · End: BC 487
    Explicit · liangshu:047:s0274

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: exemplary filial figure invoked in Household Admonitions · Provenance: Mode: quoted-document · Source Person Id: Yan Yanzhi (顏延年)
    Explicit · songshu:073:s0087
  • Assessment: filial exemplar under the sage's teaching · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liangshu:047:s0274
  • Assessment: model for virtue and conduct among the four categories · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Yao Cha (姚察)
    Explicit · liangshu:030:s0201

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 75Volume 64b: Yan, Zhu, Wuqiu, Zhufu, Xu, Yan, Zhong, Wang, and Jia 2 · 1 passage
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Book of Han, Chapter 76Volume 65: Dongfang Shuo · 1 passage
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譬若以周、邵為丞相，孔丘為御史大夫，太公為將軍，畢公高拾遺於後，弁嚴子為衛尉，皋陶為大理，後稷為司農，伊尹為少府，子贛使外國，顏、閔為博士，子夏為太常，益為右扶風，季路為執金吾，契為鴻臚，龍逢為宗正，伯夷為京兆，管仲為馮翊，魯般為將作，仲山甫為光祿，申伯為太僕，延陵季子為水衡，百里奚為典屬國，柳下惠為大長秋，史魚為司直，蘧伯玉為太傅，孔父為詹事，孫叔敖為諸侯相，子產為郡守，王慶忌為期門，夏育為鼎官，羿為旄頭，宋萬為式道候。」 Imagine the Duke of Zhou and the Duke of Shao as your chancellors; Confucius as chief censor; the Grand Duke as commander; Duke Bi Gao as court remonstrant; Bian Zhuangzi as captain of the guard; Gao Yao as chief judge; Hou Ji as minister of agriculture; Yi Yin as palace treasurer; Zigong as foreign envoy; Yan Hui and Min Ziqian as court scholars; Zixia as master of rites; Yi as western capital intendant; Zilu as capital commandant; Xie as master of guest ceremonies; Guan Longpeng as keeper of the imperial genealogy; the minister Boyi as metropolitan governor; Guan Zhong as northern capital intendant; Lu Ban as chief engineer; Zhong Shanfu as palace chamberlain; the Earl of Shen as master of the horse; Prince Jizi of Yanling as keeper of parks and waters; Baili Xi as commissioner for dependent peoples; Liuxia Hui as chamberlain to the empress; Shi Yu as censor of conduct; Qu Boyu as grand tutor; Kong Fu as supervisor of the heir apparent's household; Sunshu Ao as chancellor to the feudal lords; Zichan as commandery governor; Prince Qingji as a palace gate guard; Xia Yu as cauldron officer; Yi the Archer as vanguard officer; and Song Wan as road-clearing scout."
Book of Han, Chapter 96Volume 85: Gu Yong and Du Ye · 1 passage
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Book of Han, Chapter 99Volume 87b: Yang Xiong 2 · 2 passages
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Book of Han, Chapter 117Volume 100a: Afterword and Family History 1 · 1 passage
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今吾子已貫仁誼之羈絆，繫名聲之韁鎖，伏周、孔之軌躅，馳顏、閔之極摯，既繫攣於世教矣，何用大道為自眩曜？ Now you, sir, have already put on the fetters of benevolence and duty and tied yourself to the reins and locks of reputation. You crouch in the tracks of the Duke of Zhou and Confucius and race toward the utmost earnestness of Yan Hui and Min Ziqian; since you are already bound fast by worldly teaching, why use the great Way merely to dazzle yourself?
Book of Later Han, Chapter 37Volume 32: Biographies of Fan Hong; Yin Shi · 1 passage
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Book of Liang, Chapter 30Volume 30: Pei Ziye; Gu Xie; Xu Chi; Bao Quan · 1 passage
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Book of Liang, Chapter 47Volume 47: Filial Acts · 1 passage
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 483Volume 483 Biographies 270: Confucian Scholars 4: Kong Yinzhi Son: Xing Xie, Yu Qi Son: Chuan Duo, Guang Qi Son: Zhao Huan, Sun :Xianpei, Zeng Sun : Qing Rong, Zeng Sun : Fan Hao, Xuan Sun : Xiang Ke, Lai Sun : Ling Yi · 1 passage
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又增設咸陽姬氏文王后，曲阜東野氏周公後，濟寧閔氏子騫後，濬縣端木氏子貢後，常熟言氏子遊後，鉅野卜氏子夏后，蕭縣顓孫氏子張後，菏澤、肥城兩冉氏伯牛、仲弓後，肥城有氏有子後，鄒平伏氏伏生後，孟縣韓氏文公後，郿縣張氏明公後，各一人。 It further added one post each for the Ji of Xianyang, heirs of King Wen; the Dongye of Qufu, heirs of the Duke of Zhou; the Min of Jining, heirs of Ziqian; the Duanmu of Junxian, heirs of Zigong; the Yan of Changshu, heirs of Ziyou; the Bu of Juye, heirs of Zixia; the Zhuansun of Xiaoxian, heirs of Zizhang; the two Ran lines of Heze and Feicheng, heirs of Boniu and Zhonggong; the You of Feicheng, heirs of Youzi; the Fu of Zouping, heirs of Fusheng; the Han of Mengxian, heirs of Master Wengong; and the Zhang of Meixian, heirs of Master Ming.
Book of Song, Chapter 73Volume 73 Biographies 33: Yan Yanzhi · 1 passage
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Book of Sui, Chapter 77Volume 77 Biographies 42: Recluses · 1 passage
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