Shen Xian (申咸) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Shen Xian as an official and scholar. This record brings together 9 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 Xian	申咸	Shen Xian
Given	Xian	咸	Xian

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

Official
Scholar

Career and standing

Erudit / 博士
Explicit · hanshu:094:s0338

Places and affiliations

Donghai / 東海
Explicit · hanshu:094:s0338

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 94Volume 83: Xue Xuan and Zhu Bo · 9 passages

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事下有司，御史中丞眾等奏：「況朝臣，父故宰相，再封列侯，不相敕丞化，而骨肉相疑，疑咸受修言以謗毀宣。 The case went to the regular judiciary. Vice-Imperial Secretary Zhong and colleagues memorialized: "Xue Kuang is a court official whose father was twice a chancellor and a marquis, yet instead of setting a moral example he let kin turn on kin; Shen Xian is thought to have taken Xue Xiu's stories and used them to defame Xue Xuan.

咸所言皆宣行跡，眾人所共見，公家所宜聞。 What Shen Xian said was common knowledge about Xue Xuan's conduct—facts the court should already have heard.

況知咸給事中，恐為司隸舉奏宣，而公令明等迫切宮闕，要遮創戮近臣於大道人眾中，欲以隔塞聰明，杜絕論議之端。 Kuang knew Shen Xian served in palace attendance and feared he would impeach Xue Xuan once metropolitan superintendent; he therefore sent Ming and others to crowd the palace approaches, waylay a senior minister in broad daylight in a public street, hoping to deafen the throne to criticism.

咸厚善修，而數稱宣惡，流聞不誼，不可謂直。 Shen Xian was Xiu's intimate and kept retailing scandal about Xue Xuan; the talk that spread was hardly honorable—so his conduct was not "straight" either.

況以故傷咸，計謀已定，後聞置司隸，因前謀而趣明，非以恐咸為司隸故造謀也。 Kuang struck Shen Xian over an old feud; the ambush was already planned before a metropolitan superintendent was named, and Ming merely carried it out—Kuang did not hatch the scheme only because he feared Shen Xian's new appointment.

本爭私變，雖於掖門外傷咸道中，與凡民爭鬥無異。 At bottom it was a private quarrel; though the blow fell outside the Ye Gate, it was still a street fight among private citizens.

久之，哀帝初即位，博士申咸給事中，亦東海人也，毀宣不供養行喪服，薄於骨肉，前以不忠孝免，不宜復列封侯在朝省。 Some time after Emperor Ai came to the throne, Erudit Shen Xian of Donghai served in palace attendance. He attacked Xue Xuan for failing to wear mourning while supporting the living and for coldness toward kin. Having once been dismissed for disloyalty and unfilial conduct, he ought not again to hold marquis rank and office at court.

宣子況為右曹侍郎，數聞其語，賕客楊明，欲令創咸面目，使不居位。 Xue Xuan's son Kuang served as gentleman of the right bureau. Hearing Shen Xian's talk again and again, he bribed retainer Yang Ming to maim Shen Xian's face and drive him from office.

會司隸缺，況恐咸為之，遂令明遮斫咸宮門外，斷鼻脣，身八創。 When the metropolitan superintendency fell vacant, Kuang feared Shen Xian would be appointed. He sent Ming to ambush and hack Shen Xian outside the palace gate, cutting his nose and lips and leaving eight wounds on his body.