Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and Writer

Wen Zisheng 溫子升

Wēn Zǐshēng

Died AD 520

Passages: 6
Chapters: 3
Histories: 2

Overview

The translated histories identify Wen Zisheng as an official, poet, and writer. This record brings together 6 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wen Zisheng	溫子升	Wēn Zǐshēng
Personal name	Wen Zisheng	溫子昇	Wēn Zǐshēng
Personal	Wen Zisheng	溫子昇	Wen Zisheng
Courtesy	Zisheng	子升	Zǐshēng
Given name	Zisheng	子昇	Zǐshēng
Courtesy	Zisheng	子昇	Zisheng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0086, beiqishu:047:s0085
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · weishu:110:s0089

Roles

Official
Poet
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Statement: died before Xing–Wei pairing · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 子升死後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 550
Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0087
Manner: starved in prison / 餓之而死
Explicit · beiqishu:047:s0085

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 三才 · Western Interval: Start: AD 532 · End: AD 550
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:110:s0089
Source Date: Text: 溫子升 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 550
Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0086
Source Date: Text: 溫子昇 · Western Interval: Start: AD 547 · End: AD 549
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:047:s0085

Places and affiliations

Place: Jiyin / 濟陰
Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0086

Events and relationships

Relation: peer-of · Person Id: Xing Shao (邢卲) · Statement: jointly called Wen and Xing
Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0086

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 36Volume 36 Biographies 28: Xing Shao · 2 passages

與濟陰溫子升為文士之冠，世論謂之溫、邢。 With Wen Zisheng of Jiyin he stood at the head of men of letters; contemporaries called them Wen and Xing.

鉅鹿魏收，雖天才艷發，而年事在二人之後，故子升死後，方稱邢、魏焉。 Wei Shou of Julu, though brilliant by nature, was junior to both; only after Zisheng died were Xing and Wei named together.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 47Volume 47 Biographies 39: Cruel Officials · 2 passages

及文襄疑黃門郎溫子昇知元瑾之謀，繫之獄而餓之，食敝襦而死。 When Gao Cheng suspected Wen Zisheng of Yuan Jin's plot, he bound and starved him—he ate his ragged coat and died.

子昇吾本不殺之，卿葬之何所憚。 I would not have killed Zisheng—what fear in burying him?

Book of Wei, Chapter 110Volume 104: Author's Preface · 2 passages

尋兼中書舍人，與濟陰溫子昇、河間邢子才齊譽，世號三才。 He soon became a secretariat aide and, together with Wen Zisheng of Jiyin and Xing Zicai of Hejian, earned equal renown as the Three Talents of the age.

雅俗文墨，通達縱橫，我亦使子才、子昇時有所作，至於詞氣並不及之。 Whether in refined or plain writing, in prose or statecraft, he is masterful and versatile. I have Zicai and Zisheng write on occasion, but neither matches his force of expression.