夏侯胜 / Xiahou Sheng (Western Han)

Overview

夏侯胜 / Xiahou Sheng enters the wiki through Hanji 430 as the crown-prince tutor who interprets 丙吉’s grave illness through accumulated hidden virtue.

Current Profile

In this source, Xiahou Sheng functions as a moral interpreter. When 汉宣帝 worries that Bing Ji may die before receiving his marquis seal, Xiahou Sheng argues that a person with hidden virtue will enjoy blessing before death and pass blessing to descendants. Bing Ji’s recovery then becomes the episode’s proof scene for 阴德福报因果.

Key Characteristics

• Scholar-official serving as taizi taifu in the episode.
• Explains illness and recovery through hidden virtue and deferred reward.
• Helps turn Bing Ji’s service into a moral-causal teaching.

Evidence

Hidden-virtue interpretation:

• Hanji 430 says Xiahou Sheng stops Xuan from assuming Bing Ji will die.
• Hanji 430 says he claims those with hidden virtue receive blessing before death and to descendants.
• Hanji 430 says Bing Ji later recovers.

Qualifications

This page is source-scoped to Hanji 430. It preserves Xiahou Sheng’s claim as the episode’s moral interpretation, not as a medical explanation.

What Changed

• Created the page as the interpreter of Bing Ji’s hidden virtue and recovery.

Relationships

• 丙吉 / Bing Ji (Western Han) - official whose illness Xiahou Sheng interprets.
• Emperor Xuan of Han / 汉宣帝 / 刘询 / 刘病已 - ruler reassured by Xiahou Sheng’s hidden-virtue claim.
• 阴德福报因果 / Hidden Virtue Reward Causality - concept grounded in Xiahou Sheng’s explanation.