Sun Fangjian (孫方諫)

Overview

Sun Fangjian was a Military Officer.

PeriodFive Dynasties

IdentityHistorical · Male

Roles

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Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 947 to AD 953 方諫…因版蕩之世
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 125, passage 255

Assessments and attributes

Assessment seized frontier power in chaos; far from Cloud Terrace meritorious ministers · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 125, passage 255

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 125Volume 125 Book of Later Zhou 27: Biographies 5: Lie Chuanwu, Zhao Hui, Wang Shou'en, Kong Zhijun, Wang Jihong, Feng Hui, Gao Yunquan, Zhe Congruan, Wang Rao, Sun Fangjian · 1 passage

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允權、方諫，因版蕩之世，竊屏翰之權，比夫畫雲臺之功臣，何相去之遠也！ Yunquan and Fangjian exploited a time of chaos to seize frontier power for themselves. Compared with the meritorious ministers whose portraits adorned the Cloud Terrace, how far they fall short!