Ming · Administrator

Prefect who conscripted Shen Zhou

Attested AD 1480 - AD 1505

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Prefect who conscripted Shen Zhou as an administrator and official. This record brings together 6 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	Prefect who conscripted Shen Zhou
Descriptive kinship	Prefect who conscripted Shen Zhou	郡守

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Anonymous individuated
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · mingshi:298:s0164

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 有郡守征畫工 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1480 · End: AD 1505
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:298:s0164

Events and relationships

Kind: social · Role: apologizer · Action: visited-and-bowed · Other Person Id: Shen Zhou (沈周)
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0175

References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 298Volume 298 Biographies 186: Recluses · 6 passages

有郡守征畫工繪屋壁。 A prefect summoned painters to decorate the walls of a building.

已而守入覲，銓曹問曰：「沈先生無恙乎？」 Later the prefect went to audience in the capital, and the Board of Personnel asked: "Is Master Shen well?"

守不知所對，漫應曰：「無恙。」 The prefect did not know how to answer and casually replied: "He is well."

守益愕，復漫應曰：「有而未至。」 The prefect was still more astonished and again answered casually: "There is one, but it has not yet arrived."

守出，倉皇謁侍郎吳寬，問「沈先生何人？」 After leaving the audience, the prefect hurried to visit Vice Minister Wu Kuan and asked: "Who is Master Shen?"

詢左右，乃畫壁生也。 Inquiring of those beside him, the prefect learned that he was the wall-painting laborer.