申屠圣 / Shentu Sheng (Western Han)

Overview

申屠圣 / Shentu Sheng enters the wiki through Hanji 523 as the named leader of the Yangshuo 3 / 22 BCE 颍川铁官徒起义.

Current Profile

The source presents Shentu Sheng less as a developed biography than as the catalytic leader of an iron-office convict revolt. He organizes about 180 iron-office laborers, claims general status, seizes weapons, kills local officials, and moves the force out into nearby areas.

His significance in the episode is double. At the event level, he gives the uprising a leader and a starting act. At the interpretive level, his rapid but failed mobilization lets the host argue that suffering and local support can ignite revolt without supplying the discipline, legitimacy, and governing capacity needed for durable success.

Key Characteristics

• Western Han iron-office convict uprising leader.
• Active in Yangshuo 3 / 22 BCE under 汉成帝.
• Leads about 180 iron-office convicts at the start of the revolt.
• Claims the title of general after seizing weapons.
• Functions in the source as a concrete case for rebel grievance without durable organization.

Evidence

Leadership:

• Hanji 523 names Shentu Sheng as the head of the iron-office convict uprising.

Initial mobilization:

• Hanji 523 says he links about 180 people, calls himself general, seizes weapons, and kills the iron official and commandery clerk.

Interpretive role:

• Hanji 523 uses the failed revolt to argue that rebel anger still needs organization, discipline, strategic vision, legitimacy, and public support to become durable political power.

Qualifications

This page is source-scoped to Hanji 523. The episode does not provide Shentu Sheng’s background, family, legal status before the revolt, later fate, or a full campaign record.

What Changed

• Created this page from Hanji 523 as the leader page for the Yingchuan iron-office uprising.

Relationships

• 颍川铁官徒起义 - uprising Shentu Sheng leads.
• 颍川郡 - normalized commandery setting for the uprising.
• 汉成帝 - emperor under whom the uprising occurs.
• 生存压力型起义 - causal frame the source applies to coercive labor and rebellion.