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Overview The translated histories identify Ban Zhi as an eunuch and official. This record brings together 9 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
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Ban Zhi
班穉
Ban Zhi
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Ban Zhi
穉
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Zhi
稚
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Zhi
穉
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Book of Han, Chapter 117 Volume 100a: Afterword and Family History 1 · 9 passages
況生三子：伯、斿、稚。
Ban Kuang fathered three sons named Bo, You, and Zhi.
穉少為黃門郎中常侍，方直自守。
Ban Zhi served as gentleman-attendant and eunuch attendant in his youth and held to strict integrity.
成帝季年，立定陶王為太子，數遣中盾請問近臣，穉獨不敢答。
Late in Cheng's reign, when the Prince of Dingtao was named heir, the heir's agents quizzed every intimate attendant, but Ban Zhi alone refused to reply.
哀帝即位，出穉為西河屬國都尉，遷廣平相。
Emperor Ai posted him chief commandant over the Xihe dependent state, then promoted him to chancellor of Guangping.
王莽少與穉兄弟同列友善，兄事斿而弟畜穉。
In youth Wang Mang sat among the brothers Zhi as a friend, honoring You as an elder and treating Zhi as a junior.
平帝即位，太后臨朝，莽秉政，方欲文致太平，使使者分行風俗，采頌聲，而穉無所上。
After Emperor Ping took the throne, the Dowager regent and Wang Mang in power sought to polish the age into Great Peace, dispatching envoys to survey local customs and collect praise songs, but Ban Zhi sent nothing up.
琅邪太守公孫閎言災害於公府，大司空甄豐遣屬馳至兩郡諷吏民，而劾閎空造不祥，穉絕嘉應，嫉害聖政，皆不道。
Langye administrator Gongsun Hong reported disasters to the capital; Grand Minister of Works Zhen Feng sent aides racing to both commanderies to warn officials and people, then impeached Hong for inventing ill omens and Zhi for withholding auspicious responses and obstructing the sage government—both accused of capital crimes.
穉懼，上書陳恩謝罪，願歸相印，入補延陵園郎，太后許焉。
Ban Zhi, afraid, memorialized his gratitude and apology, asked to surrender the chancellor seal, and sought appointment as a gentleman of Yanling Park; the Dowager agreed.
穉生彪。
Ban Zhi was the father of Ban Biao.