Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and Judge

Shen Yuan 沈淵

Shěn Yuān

Attested AD 483 - AD 493

Passages: 4
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Shen Yuan was an official and Judge.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 483 to AD 493 永明中
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 6, passage 68
AD 483 to AD 493 永明中
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 209

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Sibling of Shen Dan (沈淡)
brothers 兄弟 · Full siblings
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 206-207
Sibling of Shen Chong (沈沖)
elder brother 兄 · Full siblings
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 206
Child of Shen Huaiwen (沈懷文)
father 父 · paternal line
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 34, passages 185, 206
Parent of Shen Hui (沈繢)
father 父
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 209
Child of Mother of Shen Chong (沈沖母孔氏)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 210

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Censor-in-Chief 御史中丞
AD 483 to AD 493 永明中 · Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 6, passage 68
Censor-in-Chief 御史中丞
Held
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 207

Places and affiliations

Polity Southern Qi 南齊 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 6, passage 68

Works and attributed material

AD 483 to AD 493 永明中
Memorial · Author · Paraphrased
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 6, passage 68

Events and relationships

Impeached
AD 483 to AD 493 永明中 · Legal · Prosecutor · With Yuan Tuan (袁彖)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 209
Urged retirement of officials at age seventy
AD 483 to AD 493 永明中 · Administrative · Memorialist
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 6, passage 68

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 34, passage 206

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 6Volume 6 Annals 6: Emperor Ming of Southern Qi · 1 passage

永明中，御史中丞沈淵表百官年登七十，皆令致仕，竝窮困私門。 In Yongming, Censor-in-Chief Shen Yuan urged that every official who turned seventy be retired, noting that many were destitute at home.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 34Volume 34 Biographies 15: Yu Wanzhi, Liu Xiu, Shen Chong, Yu Gaozhi, Wang Chen · 3 passages

沖與兄淡、淵名譽有優劣，世號爲「𦝫鼓兄弟。」 Chong and his elder brothers Dan and Yuan won unequal renown; the age nicknamed them "the Leather-Drum Brothers."

淡、淵竝歷御史中丞，兄弟三人皆爲司直，晉、宋未有也。 Dan and Yuan had both been censor-in-chief; never under Jin or Song had three brothers all worn the straight investigator's seal.

淵永明中彈吳興太守袁彖，建武中彖從弟昂爲中丞，到官數日，奏彈淵子繢父在僦白幰車，免官禁錮。 In Yongming, Yuan impeached Yuan Tuan, grand administrator of Wuxing; in Jianwu, Tuan's younger cousin Ang took the censor's seat and, within days, struck at Yuan's son Hui for letting his father travel in a hired white-canopy carriage—Hui was cashiered and barred from office.