施丹 / Shi Dan (Western Han)

Overview

施丹 / Shi Dan enters the wiki through Hanji 626 as a Western Han official retrospectively rewarded after 王莽’s posthumous prosecution of 傅太后 and 丁姬. His role is narrow but useful: he shows how grave and title correction also reorders living officials’ reputations.

Current Profile

The source says Shi Dan had previously opposed Fu Taihou and had been removed from office and stripped of ducal standing. After Wang Mang’s 5 CE campaign against Fu Taihou and Ding Ji, Shi Dan is summoned to Chang’an, made a guannei marquis, restored to his former income, later made Yiyang marquis, and then dies soon afterward.

Shi Dan therefore functions as a posthumous-merit-vindication case. The reward does not come from a new achievement in the episode; it comes from Wang Mang recoding an earlier stance as correct once the court officially condemns Fu Taihou’s old status.

Key Characteristics

• Western Han official whose earlier opposition to Fu Taihou becomes retroactively rewarded.
• Example of Wang Mang turning posthumous ritual correction into living political sorting.
• Restored and re-titled shortly before his death.
• Narrow source figure rather than a fully synthesized statesman profile.

Evidence

• Prior penalty: Hanji 626 says Shi Dan had previously been removed and stripped of rank because of his opposition to Fu Taihou.
• Restoration: Hanji 626 says he is summoned, granted guannei marquis status, and restored to his former income.
• Final title and death: Hanji 626 says he is later made Yiyang marquis and dies soon afterward.

Qualifications

Hanji 626 does not reconstruct the full earlier debate in which Shi Dan opposed Fu Taihou. The page therefore treats him as source-scoped evidence for retrospective reward, not as a complete biography or independent judgment on the earlier dispute.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 626’s posthumous-merit restoration branch.

Relationships

• 王莽 - political authority whose retrospective prosecution enables Shi Dan’s restoration.
• 傅太后 - figure whose earlier status Shi Dan opposed.
• 身后功过翻案 - related concept for rewards created by later reversal of memory.
• 礼制政治秩序 - ritual-order frame through which his earlier opposition becomes newly valuable.