Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

Sun Quan 孫權

Attested AD 237 - AD 251

Passages: 11
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Sun Quan was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 237 年十四
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passage 116
AD 242 赤烏五年
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passages 114, 145
AD 242 to AD 251 赤烏五年以後
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passages 120, 138, 144, 149, 160

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Sun He (孫和)
father 父 · paternal line
Strongly inferred · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passages 116, 121
Spouse of Lady Wang (王夫人)
lady 夫人 · Secondary marriage
Strongly inferred · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passages 112, 141
Parent of Sun Ba (孫霸)
sons 子弟 · paternal line
Strongly inferred · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passages 142, 145, 149
Parent of Sun Lü (孫慮)
sons 諸子 · paternal line
Strongly inferred · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passages 111, 116

Kinship Role sons · Quantity unspecified
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passage 116

Places and affiliations

Polity Eastern Wu 吳 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passages 116, 149
At White Heron Watch 白爵觀 · Relation Visited
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passage 160

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · With Sun Jun (孫峻)
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passages 149-150

Events and relationships

Compared faction to Yuan clan disaster
Political · Sovereign · With Yuan Shao (袁紹)
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passage 149
Fell seriously ill
Medical · Patient
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passage 138
Hid army in ambush
AD 242 to AD 251 諸葛壹誘諸葛誕 · Military · Commander
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passage 120
Planned to change the heir
Political · Sovereign
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passage 151
Raged at reports
Political · Sovereign
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passage 141
Saw plea from White Heron Watch and ordered them to stop
Political · Sovereign · With Zhu Ju (朱據), Qu Huang (屈晃)
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passage 160

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Wavered for years
Political · Sovereign
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passage 144

Assessments and attributes

Assessment more benighted than Yuan Shao and Liu Biao in creating a household calamity by doting on Ba after already establishing He · Mode commentator-judgment Speaker Pei Songzhi (裴松之)
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passage 152
Item clothing, ritual rank, carved playthings, and rare treasures 衣服禮秩雕玩珍異 · Relation Bestowed · With Sun He (孫和) · Mode named-source-report Source Work Wu shu 吳書
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passage 116

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Records of the Three Kingdoms 59, passage 116

References in the histories

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History

11 passages

Records of the Three Kingdoms, Chapter 59Volume 59: Book of Wu 14: Biographies of the Five Sons of the Lord of Wu · 11 passages

〈《吳書》曰：和少岐嶷有智意，故權尤愛幸，常在左右，衣服禮秩雕玩珍異之賜，諸子莫得比焉。〈The Wu shu says Sun He was precocious and clever, so Sun Quan favored him above the rest, kept him always at his side, and showered him with gifts no other son received.

後諸葛壹僞叛以誘魏將諸葛誕，權潛軍待之。 Later Zhuge Yi pretended to defect to lure Zhuge Dan of Wei; Sun Quan hid an army to spring the trap.

和以權暴露外次，又戰者凶事，常憂勞憯怛，不復會同飲食，數上諫，戒令持重，務在全勝，權還，然後敢安。 With his father camped in the field and war—a thing of ill omen—hanging over the state, Sun He could not bring himself to feast; he remonstrated again and again that Sun Quan hold steady and aim at total victory, and only when the sovereign returned did he rest easy.

權嘗寢疾，和祠祭於廟，和妃叔父張休居近廟，邀和過所居。 When Sun Quan fell seriously ill, Sun He sacrificed at the ancestral temple. His consort's uncle Zhang Xiu lived nearby and asked the heir to stop at his house.

權由是發怒，夫人憂死，而和寵稍損，懼於廢黜。 Sun Quan exploded with rage. Lady Wang died of grief, Sun He's favor waned, and he began to fear deposition.

權沈吟者歷年， For years Sun Quan wavered,

〈殷基《通語》曰：初權旣立和爲太子，而封霸爲魯王，初拜猶同宮室，禮秩未分。〈Yin Ji's Tong yu records that when Sun He was made heir and Sun Ba prince of Lu, they at first still shared quarters and equal ceremony.

權患之，謂侍中孫峻曰：「子弟不睦，臣下分部，將有袁氏之敗，爲天下笑。 Sun Quan told Sun Jun, "My sons feud and my servants take sides—we risk the Yuan brothers' disaster and the world's mockery.

臣松之以爲袁紹、劉表謂尚、琮爲賢，本有傳後之意，異於孫權旣以立和而復寵霸，坐生亂階，自構家禍，方之袁、劉，昏悖甚矣。 Pei Songzhi comments: Yuan Shao and Liu Biao held Shang and Cong worthy and originally meant to pass the succession to them—unlike Sun Quan, who had already named an heir yet doted on Sun Ba, inviting ruin at home. Beside Yuan and Liu, Sun Quan looks far more blind.

於是驃騎將軍朱據、尚書僕射屈晃率諸將吏泥頭自縛，連日詣闕請和。 Zhu Ju and Vice Director Qu Huang led officers to the gates with heads smeared with mud and ropes on their wrists, day after day begging Sun Quan to forgive Sun He.

權登白爵觀見，甚惡之，勑據、晃等無事忩忩。 From the White Heron Watch Sun Quan saw the demonstration and was furious; he ordered Zhu Ju and Qu Huang to stop their clamor.