Qin and Han · Family Member

Younger Sister of Wang Shang 王商女弟

Attested BC 33 - BC 25

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Younger Sister of Wang Shang as a family member. This record brings together 3 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Younger Sister of Wang Shang	王商女弟
Descriptive kinship	younger sister of Wang Shang	商女弟
Descriptive kinship	Younger Sister of Wang Shang	王商女弟

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Anonymous individuated
Sex: Female

Value: female
Explicit · hanshu:093:s0099

Roles

Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 成帝時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 33 · End: BC 25
Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:093:s0099

Family

Sibling of Wang Shang (王商)
Kinship Term: younger sister / 女弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Shared Parentage: uncertain

Career and standing

Action: implicated-in-household-scandal · Statement: a slave killed her lover
Explicit · hanshu:093:s0099

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 93Volume 82: Wang Shang, Shi Dan and Fu Xi · 3 passages

前頻陽耿定上書言商與父傅通，及女弟淫亂，奴殺其私夫，疑商教使。 Earlier Geng Ding of Pinyang memorialized that Wang Shang had slept with his father's concubine, that his younger sister was promiscuous, and that a slave had killed her lover—some suspected Wang Shang had ordered it.

前商女弟內行不修，奴賊殺人，疑商教使，為商重臣，故抑而不窮。 Earlier his younger sister's private conduct was scandalous: a household slave committed murder, and some suspected Wang Shang ordered it. Because he was a pillar of the court, I suppressed the case and did not press to the bottom.

祖父恭有女弟，武帝時爲衞太子良娣，產悼皇考。 His grandfather Shi Gong had a younger sister who, in Emperor Wu's reign, served as a worthy lady attendant to Crown Prince Wei and bore the Lamented Imperial Father.