Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and Historian

Shan Wei 山偉

Attested AD 515 - AD 534

Passages
21
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Shan Wei as an aristocrat, historian, official, and scholar. This record brings together 21 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Found inBook of Wei

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Shan Wei 山偉 Shan Wei
Title Baron of Dong'e 東阿縣伯 Dong'e xianbo
Posthumous Duke Wenzhen 文貞公 Wenzhen gong
Courtesy Zhongcai 仲才 Zhongcai
Given 偉 Wei
Surname 山 Shan

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • Historian
  • Official
  • Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 前廢帝立 · Western Interval: Start: AD 531 · End: AD 532
    Explicit event contextual date · weishu:086:s0059
  • Source Date: Text: 孝靜初 · Western Year: AD 534
    Explicit event contextual date · weishu:086:s0064
  • Source Date: Text: 尒朱榮之害朝士 · Western Year: AD 528
    Explicit event contextual date · weishu:086:s0052
  • Source Date: Text: 肅宗初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 515 · End: AD 528
    Explicit event contextual date · weishu:086:s0038

Family

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  • Parent of Shan Ang (山昂)
    Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Subject Birth Order: 1
  • Child of Shan Zhizhi (山稚之)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Spouse of Wife of Shan Wei (山偉妻)
    Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife
  • Sibling of Younger brother of Shan Wei (山偉弟)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother
  • Kinship Role: children · Count: 2 · Note: 妻子 left adrift after death; includes Ang and other children
    Explicit · weishu:086:s0075

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: attendant censor / 侍御史 · Action: appointed · Concurrent: true · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 肅宗初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 515 · End: AD 528
    Explicit event contextual date · weishu:086:s0038
  • Label: gentleman of two thousand piculs / 尚書二千石郎 · Action: appointed · Concurrent: true
    Explicit · weishu:086:s0049
  • Label: general who pacifies the east / 安東將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 前廢帝立 · Western Interval: Start: AD 531 · End: AD 532
    Explicit event contextual date · weishu:086:s0059
  • Label: grand general of the guard / 衞大將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 孝靜初 · Western Year: AD 534
    Explicit event contextual date · weishu:086:s0064
  • Label: gentleman attendant at the yellow gate / 給事黃門侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 莊帝入宮 · Western Interval: Start: AD 528 · End: AD 531
    Explicit event contextual date · weishu:086:s0053
  • Label: director of the secretariat / 中書令 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · weishu:086:s0064
  • Label: gentleman of famous scholars / 名士郎 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · weishu:086:s0049
  • Label: overseer of the imperial diary / 監起居 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · weishu:086:s0064
  • Label: supervisor of the secretariat / 祕書監 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · weishu:086:s0059
  • Label: assessor in the Court of Justice / 廷尉評 · Action: held
    Explicit · weishu:086:s0042
  • Label: assistant tutor at the National University / 國子助教 · Action: held
    Explicit · weishu:086:s0042
  • Label: head of Bureau of Compilation / 領著作郎 · Action: held
    Explicit · weishu:086:s0058
  • Label: outside-section gentleman / 員外郎 · Action: held
    Explicit · weishu:086:s0042
  • Label: posthumous grand general of agile cavalry / 贈驃騎大將軍 · Action: posthumously-granted
    Explicit · weishu:086:s0066
  • Label: palace attendant / 侍中 · Action: promoted
    Explicit · weishu:086:s0063
  • Label: remonstrator and adviser / 諫議大夫 · Action: recommended-for
    Explicit · weishu:086:s0051
  • Title: Baron of Dong'e / 東阿縣伯 · Action: enfeoffed
    Explicit · weishu:086:s0062
  • Label: posthumous title Duke Wenzhen / 諡曰文貞公 · Action: granted
    Explicit · weishu:086:s0066

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: outwardly grave, inwardly fiercely competitive; gaps in national history owing to him · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · weishu:086:s0069, weishu:086:s0070
  • Assessment: rank and conduct fairly upright · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · weishu:086:s0112
  • Item: house / 宅 · Relation: sold-for-burial
    Explicit · weishu:086:s0075

References in the histories

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Book of Wei, Chapter 86Volume 81: Qi Jun, Shan Wei, Liu Renzhi, Yuwen Zhongzhi · 21 passages
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國史自鄧淵、崔琛、崔浩、高允、李彪、崔光以還，諸人相繼撰錄，綦儁及偉等諂說上黨王天穆及尒朱世隆，以為國書正應代人修緝，不宜委之餘人，是以儁、偉等更主大籍。 Since Deng Yuan, Cui Chen, Cui Hao, Gao Yun, Li Biao, and Cui Guang, the national history had been compiled in turn by successive scholars; Qi Jun, Wei, and others flattered Shangdang Prince Tianmu and Erzhu Shilong, arguing that the state annals ought to be edited by men of Dai and not entrusted to outsiders—so Jun, Wei, and their circle again took charge of the great registers.