Peng Xuan (彭宣) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Peng Xuan as an aristocrat, general, official, and scholar. This record brings together 5 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Peng Xuan	彭宣	Péng Xuān
Courtesy	Zipei	子佩	Zǐpèi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Aristocrat
General
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 元壽元年 · Western Year: BC 2
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Source Date: Text: 哀帝即位 · Western Year: BC 7
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Family

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Parent of Son of Peng Xuan (彭宣子)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Office: Commandant of Justice / 廷尉 · Action: appointed
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Office: Erudite / 博士 · Action: appointed
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Office: Grand Tutor to the King of Dongping / 東平太傅 · Action: appointed
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Office: Right Supporter / Governor of Fufeng / 右扶風 · Action: appointed
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Office: Grand Minister of Works / 大司空 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元壽元年 · Western Year: BC 2
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Office: Commandant of the Imperial Counselors / 御史大夫 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建平中 · Western Year: BC 5
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Office: Grand Herald / 大鴻臚 · Action: promoted
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Office: Superintendent of the Imperial Household / 光祿勳 · Action: promoted
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Noble Title: Marquis of Changping / 長平侯 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元壽元年 · Western Year: BC 2
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Honor: sixty jin of gold / 黃金六十斤 · Action: received
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Han · Relation: official-of
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Place: Yangxia, Huaiyang / 淮陽陽夏
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Works and attributed material

Work: Classic of Changes / I Ching / 易 · Relation: scholar
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Kind: memorial · Role: author · Addressee Person Id: Emperor Ai (哀)
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Events and relationships

Relation: student-of · Person Id: Zhang Yu (張禹)
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Assessments and attributes

Item: comfortable carriage and four horses / 安車駟馬 · Relation: received-from-throne
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References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 82Volume 71: Jun, Shu, Yu, Xue, Ping and Peng · 5 passages

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彭宣字子佩，淮陽陽夏人也。 Peng Xuan, courtesy name Zipei, came from Yangxia in Huaiyang commandery.

禹以帝師見尊信，薦宣經明有威重，可任政事，繇是入為右扶風，遷廷尉，以王國人出為太原太守。 Zhang Yu, honored as the emperor's teacher, recommended Xuan as a classicist of authority fit for government. Xuan thereupon entered court as Youfufeng, rose to commandant of justice, and later left office to govern Taiyuan because he was a man of a royal domain.

歲餘，上欲令丁、傅處爪牙官，乃策宣曰：「有司數奏言諸侯國人不得宿衛，將軍不宜典兵馬，處大位。 More than a year later the emperor wished to place the Ding and Fu factions in military posts and addressed Xuan with an edict: "The responsible offices have repeatedly reported that men of the feudal states may not serve in palace guard. The general ought not command troops and horses or hold so high a post.

宣罷數歲，諫大夫鮑宣數薦宣。 Some years after Peng Xuan retired, Remonstrance Grandee Bao Xuan repeatedly recommended him to the throne.

會元壽元年正月朔日蝕，鮑宣復言，上乃召宣為光祿大夫，遷御史大夫，轉為大司空，封長平侯。 At the solar eclipse on the new moon of the first month of the first year of Yuanshou, Bao Xuan spoke again; the emperor recalled Peng Xuan as Imperial Household Grandee, then promoted him to commandant of the imperial counselors, grand minister of works, and Marquis of Changping.