Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and General

Shen Wenji 沈文季

c. AD 442 - AD 499

Passages: 9
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Shen Wenji was an official and General.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	Loyal and Lawful	忠憲

Life and dates

Death

AD 499 永元元年
Executed · At Hualin Park 華林省 · Age 58
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 44, passages 210, 212

Age

58
AD 499 死時
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 44, passage 212

Attested activity

AD 499 永元元年
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 44, passages 201, 212

Family

Sibling of Elder brother of Shen Wenji
elder brother 兄 · Full siblings
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 44, passages 208, 271
Kin of Shen Zhaolue (沈昭略)
nephew 兄子
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 44, passage 208

Career and standing

posthumous Attendant and Minister of Works 侍中司空
AD 501 中興元年 · Posthumously granted
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 44, passage 214

Places and affiliations

Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 44, passage 201

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 44, passage 211

Events and relationships

Defense · Guard · With Xu Xiaosi (徐孝嗣) · At palace city 宮城
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 44, passage 203
Military · Commander · At Hutou 湖頭 · With Wang Jingze (王敬則)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 44, passage 200

Assessments and attributes

Assessment court and countryside considered his death a grave injustice · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 44, passage 213

References in the histories

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History

9 passages

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 44Volume 44 Biographies 25: Xu Xiaosi, Shen Wenji · 9 passages

王敬則反，詔文季領兵屯湖頭，備京路。 When Wang Jingze rebelled, an edict ordered Wenji to lead troops encamped at Hutou to guard the road to the capital.

始安王遙光反，其夜，遣三百人於宅掩取文季，欲以爲都督，而文季已還臺。 When Prince Yaoguang of Shian rebelled, that same night he sent three hundred men to Wenji's residence to seize him by surprise, intending to make him commander-in-chief, but Wenji had already returned to the Secretariat.

時東昏已行殺戮，孝嗣深懷憂慮，欲與文季論世事，文季輙引以他辭，終不得及。 At that time Emperor Dong Hun was already carrying out slaughter; Xiaosi was deeply troubled and wished to discuss affairs of state with Wenji, but Wenji always turned the conversation elsewhere and never reached the subject.

文季見世方昏亂，託以老疾，不豫朝機。 Wenji saw that the age was falling into disorder and pleaded old age and illness, declining to take part in court deliberations.

兄子昭略謂文季曰：「阿父年六十爲員外僕射，欲求自免，豈可得乎？」 His nephew Zhaolue said to him, "Uncle, at sixty you serve as supernumerary Vice Director—do you think you can simply seek to exempt yourself?"

文季笑而不答。 Wenji smiled and did not answer.

其日先被召見，文季知敗，舉動如常，登車顧曰：「此行恐往而不反也。」 That day he was summoned first for audience; Wenji knew he was ruined, yet his bearing was as usual; mounting the carriage he looked back and said, "This journey—I fear I go and will not return."

中興元年，贈侍中、司空，謚忠憲。 In the first year of the Zhongxing era he was posthumously made Attendant-in-Ordinary and Minister of Works, with the posthumous name Loyal and Lawful.

至是與文季俱被召入華林省。 At this time he and Wenji were both summoned into Hualin Park.