Qin and Han · Chancellor of Han

Xuancheng 玄成

Died BC 36

Passages
6
Chapters
5
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Xuancheng as an official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 6 passages from 5 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Found inBook of Han

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Xuancheng 玄成 Xuancheng
Personal name Wei Xuancheng 韋玄成 Wei Xuancheng
Personal Wei Xuancheng 韋玄成 Wéi Xuánchéng
Personal Wei Xuancheng 玄成 Xuancheng
Given name Xuancheng 玄成
Given Xuancheng 玄成 Xuancheng
Given 玄成 Xuancheng
Surname 韋 Wei

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建昭三年六月甲辰 · Western Year: BC 36
    Explicit · hanshu:010:s0217

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 初元中 · Western Year: BC 42
    Explicit · hanshu:082:s0146
  • Source Date: Text: 孝宣承統 · Western Interval: Start: BC 74 · End: BC 48
    Explicit · hanshu:068:s0260
  • Source Date: Text: 宣帝之世 · Western Interval: Start: BC 74 · End: BC 49
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:091:s0013
  • Source Date: Text: 建昭三年六月甲辰 · Western Year: BC 36
    Explicit · hanshu:010:s0217
  • Source Date: Text: 永光二年秋 · Western Year: BC 42
    Explicit · hanshu:090:s0043

Family

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Career and standing

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Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: advanced through Confucian learning (儒術) · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · hanshu:068:s0260
  • Assessment: had achievements recounted in their age · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · hanshu:068:s0260

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 10Volume 9: Annals of Emperor Yuan · 1 passage
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Book of Han, Chapter 68Volume 58: Gongsun Hong, Bu Shi and Er Kuan · 1 passage
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孝宣承統，纂修洪業，亦講論六藝，招選茂異，而蕭望之、梁丘賀、夏侯勝、韋玄成、嚴彭祖，尹更始以儒術進，劉向，王褒以文章顯，將相則張安世、趙充國、魏相、丙吉、於定國、杜延年，治民則黃霸、王成、龔遂、鄭弘、召信臣、韓延壽、尹翁歸、趙廣漢、嚴延年、張敞之屬，皆有功跡見述於世。 Emperor Xuan inherited the succession and carried forward the great enterprise. He too expounded the Six Arts and recruited outstanding men. Xiao Wangzhi, Liangqiu He, Xiahou Sheng, Wei Xuancheng, Yan Pengzu, and Yin Gengshi advanced through Confucian learning; Liu Xiang and Wang Bao gained distinction for their writing; among the generals and chancellors were Zhang Anshi, Zhao Chongguo, Wei Xiang, Bing Ji, Yu Dingguo, and Du Yannian; and among those who governed the people were Huang Ba, Wang Cheng, Gong Sui, Zheng Hong, Shao Xinchen, Han Yanshou, Yin Wengui, Zhao Guanghan, Yan Yannian, Zhang Chang, and others. All left achievements celebrated in their age.
Book of Han, Chapter 82Volume 71: Jun, Shu, Yu, Xue, Ping and Peng · 1 passage
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Book of Han, Chapter 90Volume 79: Feng Fengshi · 2 passages
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Book of Han, Chapter 91Volume 80: The Six Sons of Emperors Xuan and Yuan · 1 passage
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久之，上以故丞相韋賢子玄成陽狂讓侯兄，經明行高，稱於朝廷，乃召拜玄成為淮陽中尉，欲感諭憲王，輔以推讓之臣，由是太子遂安。 Years later he recalled how Wei Xuancheng, son of the former chancellor Wei Xian, had played mad to yield his noble title to an elder brother—learned in the classics and renowned for integrity—and summoned him to serve as commandant in Huaiyang, hoping such an example of deference would steady the ambitious prince and quiet the succession.