Jiang Xian 蔣顯

Jiang Xian's father Jiang Wan, courtesy name Gongyan, was a native of Xiangxiang in Lingling. After Zhuge Liang's death he became Prefect of the Masters of Writing and General-in-Chief and then Grand Marshal; he died in the 9th year of Yanxi (246) and was given the posthumous name Gong. Records, Shu 14 §2 · 6–7 · 13

Jiang Wan's son Jiang Bin succeeded him and became General Who Pacifies by Martial Might and Protector of the Army at Hancheng. In the 6th year of Jingyao (263), when Wei attacked Shu along several routes, Zhong Hui of Wei reached Hancheng and sent Jiang Bin a letter in which he called Jiang Bin and Zhuge Siyuan (Zhuge Zhan) men of the same kind as himself and asked where his father's grave was. Jiang Bin replied that his father had fallen ill and died in Fu County and had been buried there, and Zhong Hui praised his sentiment and sense of duty and, on reaching Fu County, did as the letter said. Records, Shu 3 §43Records, Shu 14 §14–15

That winter Deng Ai defeated Zhuge Zhan, General of the Guards, at Mianzhu, and the Later Sovereign, adopting the plan of the Grandee of Splendid Happiness Qiao Zhou, surrendered to Deng Ai. The various defensive positions all surrendered only after receiving the Later Sovereign's edict. Jiang Wei and the others, too, only on receiving the Later Sovereign's order threw down their spears, took off their armor and went before Zhong Hui's camp at Fu County, and the officers and men, all in a rage, drew their swords and hacked at the rocks. Records, Shu 3 §43 · 46Records, Shu 14 §47

After the Later Sovereign surrendered to Deng Ai, Jiang Bin went to Fu County to meet Zhong Hui, who received him with the courtesy due to a friend. Jiang Bin followed Zhong Hui to Chengdu and was killed there by mutinous soldiers. Jiang Bin's younger brother Jiang Xian became Coachman of the Heir. Zhong Hui also prized his talent and learning, but Jiang Xian died at the same time as Jiang Bin. Records, Shu 14 §16

The Biography of the Later Sovereign records that in the spring of the following year, in the 1st month, Deng Ai was arrested and Zhong Hui came from Fu County to Chengdu and rebelled, and that after Zhong Hui died the troops in Shu plundered, the dead lay strewn about, and only after several days was order restored. The Annals of the Three Young Emperors date this to the spring, in the 1st month of the 1st year of Xianxi (264). Chen Shou's main text does not record when Jiang Xian became Coachman of the Heir or how he died. Records, Shu 3 §47Records, Wei 4 §128Records, Shu 14 §16