Sui and Tang · Commoner Offender

Shangguan Xing 上官興

Shàngguān Xīng

Attested AD 832

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Shangguan Xing was a Commoner Offender.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 832 大和六年
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passages 236, 241

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Father of Shangguan Xing
father 父
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passages 236-237, 241

Career and standing

commoner 民
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 236
Entered
Fugitive
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 236
Entered
Surrendered
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 236
beating and exile 杖流
AD 832 大和六年 · Sentenced · Authority Emperor Wenzong of Tang (唐文宗)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 241

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Subject of
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 236
AD 832 大和六年
At Lingzhou 靈州 · Relation Exiled to
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 241
At Xingping County 興平縣 · Relation Resident of
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 236

Events and relationships

Killed while drunk and fled
AD 832 大和六年 · Criminal · Offender
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 236
Surrendered to save father
Surrender · Surrenderer · With Father of Shangguan Xing
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 236

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 236

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 56Volume 56 Treatises 52: Punishment and Law · 3 passages

大和六年，興平縣民上官興以醉殺人而逃，聞械其父，乃自歸。 In the sixth year of Dahe, Shangguan Xing, a commoner of Xingping County, killed a man while drunk and fled; when he learned his father had been put in fetters, he surrendered himself.

京兆尹杜悰、御史中丞宇文鼎以其就刑免父，請減死。 Jingzhao Intendant Du Cong and Vice Censor-in-Chief Yuwen Ding, because Xing had surrendered to save his father, requested that his death sentence be reduced.

文宗以興免父囚，近於義，杖流靈州，君子以為失刑。 Wenzong, considering that Xing had freed his imprisoned father—a deed close to righteousness—sentenced him to beating and exile to Lingzhou; men of principle regarded this as a failure of justice.