Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · General and Official

Sun Yang 孫瑒

Attested AD 548 - AD 587

Passages
28
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Sun Yang as an administrator, aristocrat, general, and official. This record brings together 28 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Sun Yang 孫瑒 Sun Yang
Courtesy Delian 德璉 Delian
Posthumous Huanzi 桓子 Huanzi
Title Marquis of Dingxiang county 定襄縣侯
Title Marquis of Fuyang county 富陽縣侯
Surname Sun Sun
Personal name Sun Yang 孫瑒 Sun Yang
Given Yang Yang

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Aristocrat
  • General
  • Official
  • Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 光大中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 567 · End: AD 568
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0069
  • Source Date: Text: 天嘉元年 · Western Year: AD 560
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0060
  • Source Date: Text: 太建十二年 · Western Year: AD 580
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0076
  • Source Date: Text: 太建四年 · Western Year: AD 572
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0071
  • Source Date: Text: 太清之難 · Western Interval: Start: AD 548 · End: AD 552
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0040
  • Source Date: Text: 禎明元年 · Western Year: AD 587
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0083

Family

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  • Descendant of Sun Wenhui (孫文惠)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Child of Sun Xundao (孫循道)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Line: paternal
  • Parent of Sun Rang (孫讓)
    Kinship Term: heir / 世子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 1 · Line: paternal
  • Child of Mother of Sun Yang
    Kinship Term: parent / 親 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Sun Xun (孫訓)
    Kinship Term: second son / 第二子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 2 · Line: paternal

Career and standing

  • Label: Fierce Martial General / 宣猛將軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0040
  • Label: Inspector of Ying / 郢州刺史 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0050
  • Title: Marquis of Dingxiang county / 定襄縣侯 · Action: enfeoffed · Fief Households: 1000
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0060
  • Title: Marquis of Fuyang county / 富陽縣侯 · Action: enfeoffed · Fief Households: 1000
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0044
  • Label: posthumous General Who Guards the Army / 護軍將軍 · Action: posthumously-granted
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0084
  • Label: dismissed for official grounds / 以公事免 · Action: dismissed
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0069
  • Label: punished for illicit frontier dealings / 坐疆埸交通抵罪 · Action: punished
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0076

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: civil and military talent; often dismissed—like Chen Tang · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  • Assessment: filial and affectionate to younger brothers · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0086
  • Assessment: household luxury · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0088
  • Assessment: open-handed and generous · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0087
  • Item: martial pipes and drums / 鼓吹 · Relation: bestowed
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0063

Source notes

  • Field: office · Statement: 中領軍 vs 侍中、領軍將軍 · Witness: Nanshi
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0115
  • Field: office · Statement: 右 vs 左軍將軍 · Witness: Nanshi
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0116
  • Field: office · Statement: 太府卿 vs 少府卿 · Witness: Nanshi; Zizhi Tongjian
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0113
  • Field: posthumous-name · Statement: 子字衍 · Witness: Zhang Senkai

References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 25Volume 25: Pei Ji; Sun Yang · 28 passages