Shen Shihou (申師厚)

Overview

The translated histories identify Shen Shihou as an administrator, bandit, and military officer. 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	Shen Shihou	申師厚	Shēn Shīhòu
Personal	Shihou	師厚	Shīhòu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:138:s0023

Roles

Administrator
Bandit
Military Officer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 世宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 954 · End: AD 959
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:138:s0028
Source Date: Text: 周廣順二年 · Western Year: AD 952
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:138:s0023, jiuwudaishi:138:s0026

Family

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Parent of Son of Shen Shihou (申師厚之子)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: bandit / 盜賊
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:138:s0023
Label: general of the Left Guard / 左衛將軍 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:138:s0026
Label: military governor of Hexi / 河西節度使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:138:s0026
Label: adjutant of Yan Prefecture / 兗州牙將 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:138:s0023

Places and affiliations

Place: Liangzhou / 涼州 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:138:s0027

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: official · Action: fled-Liangzhou · Place: Liangzhou / 涼州
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:138:s0028

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: petty/small character · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:138:s0028

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 138Volume 138: Foreign States Biographies 2: Tubo, Huihu, Goryeo, Bohai Tungusic Tribes, Heishui Tungusic Tribes, Silla, Tangut, Kunming Tribes, Yutian, Champa, Zangkeman · 5 passages

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是時樞密使王峻用事，峻故人申師厚者，少起盜賊，爲兗州牙將，與峻相友善。 At that time Privy Councilor Wang Jun dominated the court. An old friend of his, Shen Shihou, had begun life as a bandit and later became adjutant of Yan Prefecture; he and Jun were close.

後峻貴，師厚弊衣蓬首，日候峻出，馬前訴以饑寒，峻未有以發。 After Jun rose to power, Shihou would appear in ragged clothes with hair in disarray, wait each day for Jun to leave his residence, and plead before his horse of hunger and cold. Jun had no means to help him.

月餘，無應募者，乃奏起師厚爲左衛將軍，已而拜河西節度使。 After more than a month without a single volunteer, he memorialized to recall Shihou as general of the Left Guard, and soon afterward Shihou was appointed military governor of Hexi.

師厚至涼州，奏薦押牙副使崔虎心、陽妃谷首領沈念般等，及中國留人子孫王廷翰、溫崇樂、劉少英爲將吏，又自安國鎮至涼州立三州以控扼諸羌，用其酋豪爲刺史。 On reaching Liangzhou, Shihou recommended adjutant deputy commissioner Cui Huxin, the Yangfei Valley chieftain Shen Nianban, and others, together with Wang Tinghan, Wen Chongle, and Liu Shaoying—descendants of Chinese who had stayed behind—as officers. He also set up three prefectures from Anguo Town to Liangzhou to hold the Qiang in check, installing their chieftains as prefects.

然涼州夷夏雜處，師厚小人，不能撫有，至世宗時，師厚留其子而逃歸，涼州遂絕於中國。 But Liangzhou was a mixed region of barbarians and Chinese, and Shihou, a man of small character, could not hold it. By Emperor Shizong's reign he abandoned his son and fled home, and Liangzhou was lost to the central realm thereafter.