Sun Zhi (孫騭) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Sun Zhi as a courtier, envoy, official, and scholar. This record brings together 11 passages from 4 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Sun Zhi	孫騭	Sun Zhi
Personal name	Sun Zhi	孫騭	Sun Zhi
Given	Zhi	騭	Zhi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:006:s0170, jiuwudaishi:007:s0021, jiuwudaishi:007:s0024
Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0061, xinwudaishi:002:s0211

Roles

Courtier
Envoy
Official
Scholar
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: beaten to death · Place: Baima post / 白馬頓 · Authority Person Id: Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾化二年二月 · Western Year: AD 912
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0074
Manner: beaten to death · Authority Person Id: Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾化二年二月 · Western Year: AD 912
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:007:s0024

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾化二年 · Western Year: AD 912
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:007:s0021, xinwudaishi:002:s0211
Source Date: Text: 乾化二年春 · Western Year: AD 912
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0071, jiuwudaishi:024:s0074
Source Date: Text: 乾化元年十一月 · Western Year: AD 911
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:006:s0170
Source Date: Text: 唐光啟中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 885 · End: AD 888
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0063
Source Date: Text: 開平三年 · Western Year: AD 909
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0069

Family

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Spouse of Daughter of Gongcheng Yi
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: formed
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: formed

Career and standing

Label: Right Remonstrance Grand Master / 右諫議大夫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平三年 · Western Year: AD 909
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0069
Label: Left Regular Cavalry Attendant / 左散騎常侍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平三年后满岁 · Western Year: AD 910
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0069
Label: circuit judicial commissioner / 節度判官 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0066
Label: Left Regular Attendant / 左散騎常侍 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:007:s0021, xinwudaishi:002:s0211
Label: Minister of War / 兵部尚書 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0067
Label: Regular Attendant / 散騎常侍 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:006:s0170
Status: executed · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠) · Place: Baima / 白馬
Explicit · xinwudaishi:002:s0211

Places and affiliations

Place: Huatai / 滑台
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0061

Learning and skills

Skill: literary composition / 辭筆 · Level: slight
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0062

Events and relationships

Kind: travel · Role: attendant · Action: ordered-on-imperial-progress · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾化二年二月 · Western Year: AD 912
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:007:s0021
Kind: ritual · Role: envoy · Action: sacrificed-at-Wang-Shrine
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:006:s0170

Assessments and attributes

Item: book collection of several thousand scrolls / 書數千卷 · Relation: owned
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0070

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 6Volume 6 Book of Later Liang 6: Taizu Annals 6 · 1 passage

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辛卯，次孟州，命散騎常侍孫騭、右諫議大夫張衍、光祿卿李翼各齎香、祝版，告祭于孟津之望祠。 On xinmao at Mengzhou he sent Regular Attendant Sun Zhi, Right Reminder Zhang Yan, and Sacrifices Director Li Yi with incense and prayer boards to sacrifice at the Wang Shrine on the Meng Ford.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 7Volume 7 Book of Later Liang 7: Taizu Annals 7 · 2 passages

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詔工部尚書李皎、左散騎常侍孫騭、右諫議大夫張衍、兵部侍郎劉邈、兵部郎中張俊、光祿少卿盧秉彝並令扈蹕。 By edict Li Jiao, minister of works, Sun Zhi, left regular attendant, Zhang Yan, right remonstrator, Liu Miao, vice minister of war, Zhang Jun, war bureau director, and Lu Bingyi, vice director of imperial sacrifices, were all ordered on the progress.

左散騎常侍孫騭、右諫議大夫張衍、兵部郎中張俊最後至，帝命撲殺之。 Sun Zhi, Zhang Yan, and Zhang Jun came late; the Emperor had them beaten to death.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 24Volume 24 Book of Later Liang 24: Biographies 14: Li Ting, Lu Ceng, Sun Zhi, Zhang Jun, Zhang Yan, Du Xunhe, Luo Yin, Chou Yin, Duan Shen · 7 passages

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孫騭，滑台人。 Sun Zhi came from Huatai.

億既死，魏帥以章表箋疏淹積，兼月不能發一字，或以騭為言，即署本職，主奏記事。 After Yi died the Wei commander's desk was buried in memorials for more than a month with no reply sent; when Zhi was recommended he was put in charge of drafting at once.

太祖禦天下，念潛龍時，騭奉其主，好問往來數十返，甚錄之。 When the Founder ruled the realm he remembered how Zhi had served him in his rise, their letters going back and forth dozens of times, and valued it highly.

騭雅好聚書，有《六經》、漢史洎百家之言，凡數千卷，皆簡翰精至，披勘詳定，得暇即朝夕耽玩，曾無少怠。 Zhi loved books; he owned several thousand scrolls of the 《Six Classics》, Han histories, and the masters, all finely copied and collated, and whenever he had a moment he read morning and night without slack.

又命飛騎促於道，而騭與諫議大夫張衍、兵部郎中張俊等累刻方至，太祖性本卞急，因茲大怒，並格殺於前墀。 couriers were sent to hurry stragglers on the road, but Zhi, Remonstrance Grand Master Zhang Yan, Bureau Director Zhang Jun, and others arrived only after long delay; the Founder was by nature irascible, flew into a rage, and had them all beaten to death in the forecourt.

乾化二年二月，扈從後至，與孫騭、張衍同日遇禍於白馬頓。 In the second month of Qianhua 2 he came late on the northern tour and, with Sun Zhi and Zhang Yan, was killed the same day at Baima post.

太祖微聞之，又屬應召稽晚，與孫騭等同日遇禍。 the Founder caught wind of it; when Yan was also slow to answer the summons he suffered the same fate as Sun Zhi that day.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 2Volume 2 Later Liang Annals 2: Taizu 2 · 1 passage

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次白馬，殺左散騎常侍孫騭、右諫議大夫張衍、兵部郎中張儁。 At Baima he had Sun Zhi, Left Regular Attendant, Zhang Yan, Right Remonstrance Officer, and Zhang Jun of the Ministry of War put to death.