Sui and Tang · Official

Yuwen Shen 宇文審

Attested AD 730 - AD 756

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yuwen Shen was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 730 to AD 756 開元至天寶
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 134, passages 63, 68

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Mother of Yuwen Shen
mother 母
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 134, passage 64
Child of Yuwen Rong (宇文融)
son 子
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 134, passage 63

Career and standing

commissioner for supervising executions in Lingnan 嶺南監決處置等使
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 134, passage 68
inspector of Yong and He 永、和二州刺史
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 134, passage 69
reviewing secretary in the Court of Judicial Review 大理評事
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 134, passage 66

Learning and skills

Earned
Credential Presented Scholar 進士
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 134, passage 66

Events and relationships

Saved exiles
Legal · Commissioner
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 134, passage 68

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 134Volume 134 Biographies 59: Yuwen, Wei, Yang, Wang · 3 passages

子審，字審。 His son Shen, whose courtesy name was also Shen.

融之貶也，審與兄弟侍母京師。 When Rong was demoted, Shen and his brothers stayed in the capital to care for their mother.

楊國忠專政，殺嶺南流人，以中使傳口敕行刑，畏議者嫉其酷，乃以審為嶺南監決處置等使，活者甚眾。 When Yang Guozhong dominated the government and began killing exiles in Lingnan by sending palace eunuchs with oral edicts to carry out executions, he feared public outrage at the brutality and appointed Shen commissioner for supervising executions in Lingnan, thereby saving a great many lives.