Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler of Wu

Sun Quan 孫權

Attested AD 200 - AD 252

Passages: 18
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Sun Quan was a ruler of Wu.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 238 赤烏元年
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passage 83
AD 200 to AD 252 孫權時期
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passages 2, 67, 81

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Spouse of Lady Bu (步夫人)
consort 夫人
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passages 74, 76
Spouse of Lady Xu (徐夫人)
consort 妃
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passages 40, 65
Spouse of Lady Xie (謝夫人)
consort 妃
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passage 39
Parent of Sun Luban (孫魯班)
daughter 女
Strongly inferred · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passage 77
Parent of Sun Luyu (孫魯育)
daughter 女
Strongly inferred · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passage 78
Child of Sun Jian (孫堅)
father 父
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passages 2, 47
Kin of Lady Xu (徐夫人)
maternal cousin 姑孫 · maternal line
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passage 40
Parent of Middle daughter of Sun Quan (孫權中女)
middle daughter 中女
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passage 79
Child of Lady Wu (吳夫人)
mother 母
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passages 2, 11
Parent of Sun Deng (孫登)
son 子
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passages 65, 67

Career and standing

General Who Punishes Captives 討虜將軍
Held
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passage 65
King of Wu 吳王
Held
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passage 67

Works and attributed material

Edict · Author · With Lady Bu (步夫人)
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 50, passages 83-84

References in the histories

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History

18 passages

Records of the Three Kingdoms, Chapter 50Volume 50: Book of Wu 5: Biographies of Concubines and Ladies · 18 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.

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?"

及權少年統業，夫人助治軍國，甚有補益。 When Sun Quan came to power while still young, Lady Wu helped him run army and state and proved a great asset.

〈《吳書》曰：權徵荊州，拜奮吳郡都督，以鎮東方。〈The Wu shu notes that when Sun Quan marched on Jingzhou he made Wu Fen area commander of Wu commandery to hold the eastern flank.

《吳書》曰：祺與張溫、顧譚友善，權令關平辭訟事。〉 The same text adds that Wu Qi befriended Zhang Wen and Gu Tan, and Sun Quan set him to straighten out the docket.〉

吳主權謝夫人，會稽山陰人也。 Lady Xie of Sun Quan came from Shanyin in Kuaiji.

權母吳，為權聘以為妃，愛幸有寵。 Lady Wu betrothed her to Sun Quan as principal consort, and she basked in his favor.

後權納姑孫徐氏，欲令謝下之，謝不肯，由是失志。 When Sun Quan married his maternal cousin Lady Xu and expected Lady Xie to step aside, she refused and fell from grace.

吳主權徐夫人，吳郡富春人也。 Lady Xu of Sun Quan was a daughter of Fuchun in Wu commandery.

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.

尚卒，極為討虜將軍在吳，聘以為妃，使母養子登。 When Lu Shang died, Sun Quan—then General Who Punishes Captives at Wu—took her as consort and had Lady Wu raise his heir Sun Deng.

後權遷移，以夫人妒忌，廢處吳。 After he shifted his capital he banished her to Wu for jealousy.

積十餘年，權為吳王及即尊號，登為太子，群臣請立夫人為后，權意在步氏，卒不許。 For ten years she languished while Sun Quan became king and then emperor and Sun Deng crown prince; ministers begged to make her empress, but his heart was set on Lady Bu and he refused.

吳主權步夫人，臨淮淮陰人也。 Lady Bu of Sun Quan hailed from Huaiyin in Linhuai.

漢末，其母攜將徙廬江，廬江為孫策所破，皆東渡江，以美麗得幸於權，寵冠後庭。 Late in Han her mother fled with her to Lujiang; Sun Ce's storm drove them east across the Yangzi, where her beauty won Sun Quan's heart above every other woman in the harem.

權為王及帝，意欲以為后，而群臣議在徐氏，權依違者十餘年，然宮內皆稱皇后，親戚上疏稱中宮。 Sun Quan meant to crown her empress, yet ministers insisted the honor belonged to Lady Xu; he wavered a decade while the harem already hailed her as empress and kin addressed her as Central Palace.

及薨，臣下緣權指，請追正名號，乃贈印綬，策命曰： At her death his courtiers, reading his wishes, asked to set her title straight; seals and patent were issued:

惟赤烏元年閏月戊子，皇帝曰：嗚呼皇后，惟后佐命，共承天地。 Chiwu 1, intercalary month, day wuzi: "Alas, my queen—you shared the Mandate and bore Heaven and Earth with me."