Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Family Member

Nancheng 男成

Nánchéng

Attested AD 397 - AD 401

Passages: 9
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Nancheng was a Family Member.

Life and dates

Death

Ordered suicide / wrongful killing · Authority Duan Ye (段業)
Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passages 59, 65

Attested activity

AD 397 to AD 401 隆安五年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 129, passages 50, 59, 84

Family

Sibling of Mengxun (蒙遜)
elder brother 兄 · Uncertain siblings
Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passages 51, 60

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · With Duan Ye (段業) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passages 60-63
Speech · Speaker · With Mengxun (蒙遜) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 52

Events and relationships

Requested sacrifice
Ritual · Participant · At Mount Lanmen 蘭門山
Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 58
Seized and ordered to suicide
Legal · Victim · With Duan Ye (段業)
Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 59

Assessments and attributes

Assessment long possessed grace and trust among the troops · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 68
Assessment loyal to Lord Duan and wrongly slaughtered · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Mengxun (蒙遜)
Directly stated · Book of Jin 129, passage 65

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History

9 passages

Book of Jin, Chapter 129Volume 129 Records 29: Juqu Mengxun · 9 passages

蒙遜謂男成曰：「段業愚暗，非濟亂之才，信讒愛佞，無鑒斷之明。 Mengxun said to Nancheng, "Duan Ye is a dullard, no man to save a crisis; he heeds slander and dotes on toadies and cannot judge men.

所憚惟索嗣、馬權，今皆死矣，蒙遜欲除業以奉兄何如？」 He feared only Suosi and Ma Quan, and both are dead. I mean to remove Duan Ye and set you up, brother—what say you?"

男成曰：「業羈旅孤飄，我所建立，有吾兄弟，猶魚之有水，人既親我，背之不祥。」 Nancheng replied, "Duan Ye is a wanderer whom we raised to the throne; we are to him as water to fish. The people trust us; to betray him would be ill-omened."

蒙遜期與男成同祭蘭門山，密遣司馬許咸告業曰：「男成欲謀叛，許以取假日作逆。 Mengxun arranged to sacrifice with Nancheng on Mount Lanmen while secretly sending his aide Xu Xian to tell Duan Ye, "Nancheng plans to rebel and intends to use a holiday leave to strike.

至期日，果然。 When the day came, Nancheng did exactly as foretold.

業收男成，令自殺。 Duan Ye seized Nancheng and ordered him to take his own life.

男成曰：「蒙遜欲謀叛，先已告臣，臣以兄弟之故，隱忍不言。 Nancheng said, "Mengxun long ago told me of his plot to rebel, but I held my tongue for our brotherhood.

蒙遜聞男成死，泣告眾曰：「男成忠於段公，枉見屠害，諸君能為報仇乎？ When Mengxun heard that Nancheng was dead, he wept before the host and said, "Nancheng was loyal to Lord Duan and has been murdered. Will you avenge him?

男成素有恩信，眾皆憤泣而從之。 Nancheng had long won the men's love; they wept with rage and rallied to Mengxun.