Quan Shang 全尚

In his old age Sun Quan was especially attached to his youngest son Sun Liang. Sun Liang's elder sister, Princess Quan, Sun Luban, had earlier slandered the Crown Prince Sun He and his mother and felt uneasy, so, relying on Sun Quan's inclination and wishing to secure ties for herself in advance, she repeatedly praised Quan Shang's daughter and urged that she be taken as Sun Liang's wife. Quan Shang's daughter was loved by the princess, her great-aunt, and whenever the princess went to the palace she always took the girl with her. When Sun He was deposed in the 13th year of Chiwu (250), Sun Quan made Sun Liang Crown Prince and made Lady Quan his consort. Records, Wu 3 §2Records, Wu 5 §15 · 28

After Sun Liang took the throne, Lady Quan was made empress in the 1st month of the 2nd year of Jianxing (253). Quan Shang then became Colonel of the City Gates and was enfeoffed as Marquis of a Chief Village; he replaced Teng Yin as Minister of Ceremonies and General of the Guards, was raised to Marquis of Yongping, and took charge of the affairs of the Imperial Secretariat. At that time five members of the Quan family had been enfeoffed as marquises, all of them commanding troops, while the rest served as Attendant Gentlemen and Chief Commandants of Cavalry, standing guard at the emperor's side. Chen Shou wrote that since the rise of Wu no consort family had ever matched them in honor and prosperity. Records, Wu 3 §3 · 6Records, Wu 5 §28–29

Quan Shang's wife was the elder sister of Sun Jun. During the Jianxing era, when Sun Jun monopolized power, the members of the imperial clan were all anxious, and for this reason Princess Quan alone was protected. Records, Wu 5 §31

In the 2nd year of Taiping (257), when Zhuge Dan of Wei came over to Wu with Shouchun, Quan Yi (全懌), Quan Duan, Quan Yi (全禕), Quan Yi (全儀) and others all took the opportunity to surrender to Wei. In the 11th month of that year Quan Xu's sons Quan Yi (全禕) and Quan Yi (全儀) fled to Wei with their mother, and in the 12th month Quan Duan, Quan Yi (全懌) and others went from Shouchun to Sima Zhao. Quan Xi was killed when his plot leaked, and because of this the Quan clan declined. Records, Wu 3 §15–17Records, Wu 5 §29

As Sun Liang began to rule in person and often questioned him closely, Sun Chen grew afraid, stayed away from court on the pretext of illness, and stationed his younger brothers among the palace guards and the various camps. Sun Liang, wary of Sun Chen, did not heed Sun Chen when he came in to remonstrate, and discussed killing Sun Chen with Princess Sun Luban, the Minister of Ceremonies Quan Shang and the general Liu Cheng. Sun Liang's consort, the daughter of Sun Chen's elder female cousin, revealed the plot to Sun Chen. On the day wuwu in the 9th month of the 3rd year of Taiping (258), Sun Chen led his men in a night attack that seized Quan Shang, sent his younger brother Sun En to kill Liu Cheng outside the Canglong Gate, and then surrounded the palace. Sun Liang was deposed and made Prince of Kuaiji; he was sixteen at the time. Records, Wu 19 §87–88Records, Wu 3 §18

In the letter he sent when welcoming Sun Xiu, Prince of Langye, Sun Chen said that the Minister of Ceremonies Quan Shang, though he had received favor for generations, had failed to keep his clansmen in check, so that Quan Duan and others abandoned their city and went over to Wei; that although his position was excessively weighty he had never spoken a single word of remonstrance, but instead had dealings with the enemy and had news of the state passed to them, so that Sun Chen feared he would surely endanger the altars of the state. He then reported that on the 27th day of that month he had captured Quan Shang and beheaded Liu Cheng. Records, Wu 19 §90–92

Sun Chen sent the general Sun Dan to escort Sun Liang to his fief, and moved Quan Shang to Lingling and the princess to Yuzhang. Quan Shang's daughter, Lady Quan (Sun Liang), followed Sun Liang to his fief and lived at Houguan, while Quan Shang was moved with his household to Lingling, where he was killed by men sent after him. The Records does not separately record the year of his death. Records, Wu 19 §93Records, Wu 5 §29