Qin and Han · General and Warlord

Sun Jian 孫堅

Attested AD 190 - AD 220

Passages: 10
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Sun Jian was a general and Warlord.

Life and dates

Death

Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passage 49

Attested activity

AD 190 to AD 220 漢末
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passages 5, 49

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Sun Quan (孫權)
father 父
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passages 2, 47
Parent of Sun Ce (孫策)
father 父
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passages 10, 12
Spouse of Lady Wu (吳夫人)
wife 夫人
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passages 2, 9
Sibling of Younger sister of Sun Jian (孫堅妹)
younger sister 妹
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passage 47

Places and affiliations

At Gaoling 高陵 · Relation Buried at
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passage 166

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · With Lady Wu (吳夫人)
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passage 12

References in the histories

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History

10 passages

Records of the Three Kingdoms, Chapter 50Volume 50: Book of Wu 5: Biographies of Concubines and Ladies · 10 passages

孫破虜吳夫人，吳主權母也。 Lady Wu of General Sun Jian—she was the mother of Sun Quan, the Wu sovereign.

孫堅聞其才貌，欲娶之。 Sun Jian heard tales of her gifts and loveliness and asked for her hand.

吳氏親戚嫌堅輕狡，將拒焉，堅甚以慚恨。 Her kinsmen thought Sun Jian too slick and unreliable and meant to turn him down—an insult that rankled him.

及權在孕，又夢日入其懷，以告堅曰：「昔妊策，夢月入我懷，今也又夢日入我懷，何也？」 With Sun Quan in her womb she dreamed the sun had entered her breast and said to Sun Jian, "For Ce it was the moon; now it is the sun—what portent is this?"

堅曰：「日月者陰陽之精，極貴之象，吾子孫其興乎！」〉 Sun Jian answered, "Sun and moon are the twin essences of yin and yang—the badge of supreme eminence. Our line is meant to flourish!"〉

景常隨堅征伐有功，拜騎都尉。 Wu Jing rode on every campaign beside Sun Jian, earned his share of glory, and was named Colonel of Agile Cavalry.

建安七年，臨薨，引見張昭等，屬以後事，合葬高陵。 In Jian'an 7, on her deathbed she summoned Zhang Zhao and others to entrust them with affairs after her death; she was buried with Sun Jian at Gaoling.

祖父真，與權父堅相親，堅以妹妻真，生琨。 Her grandfather Xu Zhen was close to Sun Jian, who married him a sister; they had Xu Kun.

琨少仕州郡，漢末擾亂，去吏，隨堅征伐有功，拜偏將軍。 Xu Kun began in local office, quit at the Han collapse, followed Sun Jian with distinction, and won the rank of Lieutenant General.

堅薨，隨孫策討樊能、於糜等於橫江，擊張英於當利口。 After Sun Jian's death he joined Sun Ce against Fan Neng and Yu Mi at Hengjiang and Zhang Ying at Danglikou.