Xi Fugong (息夫躬) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xi Fugong as an aristocrat and official. This record brings together 5 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xi Fugong	息夫躬	Xīfū Gōng
Personal	Xi Fu Gong	息夫躬	Xi Fugong

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · hanshu:091:s0158
Value: male
Strongly inferred · hanshu:012:s0115, hanshu:105:s0189

Roles

Aristocrat
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 建平三年 · Western Year: BC 4
Explicit · hanshu:091:s0158
Source Date: Text: 建平四年三月 · Western Year: BC 3
Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:012:s0115

Career and standing

Title: awaiting orders
Explicit · hanshu:105:s0189
Title: marquis / 列侯 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建平四年三月 · Western Year: BC 3
Explicit · hanshu:012:s0115
Title: marquis of Yiling
Explicit · hanshu:105:s0190

Events and relationships

Kind: denunciation · Role: accuser · Action: denounced-Yun · Other Person Id: Liu Yun (劉雲)
Explicit · hanshu:091:s0158

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 12Volume 11: Annals of Emperor Ai · 1 passage

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三月，侍中駙馬都尉董賢、光祿大夫息夫躬、南陽太守孫寵皆以告東平王封列侯。 In the third month, Chamberlain and Commandant of Equipage Dong Xian, Gentleman of the Interior Xi Fugong, and Governor Sun Chong of Nanyang were all enfeoffed as marquises for reporting on the King of Dongping.

Book of Han, Chapter 91Volume 80: The Six Sons of Emperors Xuan and Yuan · 1 passage

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建平三年，息夫躬、孫寵等共因幸臣董賢告之。 In Jianping 3, Xi Fu Gong, Sun Chong, and others denounced them through the favorite Dong Xian.

Book of Han, Chapter 105Volume 93: Flatterers · 3 passages

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會待詔孫寵、息夫躬等告東平王雲後謁祠祀祝詛，下有司治，皆伏其辜。 Then Sun Chong, Xi Fugong, and other awaiting-orders men denounced the king of Dongping's queen for shrine-cursing; the courts tried the case and extracted confessions.

上於是令躬、寵為因賢告東平事者，乃以其功下詔封賢為高安侯，躬宜陵侯，寵方陽侯，食邑各千戶。 Ai rewrote the story: Xi and Sun had exposed the plot "through" Dong Xian. He credited that tale and enfeoffed Dong Xian as marquis of Gao'an, Xi as marquis of Yiling, and Sun as marquis of Fangyang, each for a thousand households.

丞相王嘉內疑東平事冤，甚惡躬等，數諫爭，以賢為亂國制度，嘉竟坐言事下獄死。 Chancellor Wang Jia believed the Dongping case a frame job and loathed Xi Fugong's clique; he protested that Dong Xian was wrecking the polity—and died in prison for speaking out.