Overview
The translated histories identify Che as an aristocrat, royal family member, and ruler. This record brings together 345 passages from 48 chapters across 5 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Che | 徹 | Che |
| Given | Che | 徹 | Che |
| Personal name | Che | 徹 | Che |
| Title | crown prince | 太子 | |
| Title | Crown Prince | 皇太子 | |
| Title | Crown Prince | 太子 | Tàizǐ |
| Title | emperor | 上 | shang |
| Title | emperor | 上 | |
| Title | Emperor | 皇帝 | Huangdi |
| Title | Emperor | 帝 | |
| Personal name | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wǔdì |
| Title | Emperor Wu | 孝武 | |
| Posthumous | Emperor Wu | 武 | |
| Temple name | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wǔdì |
| Title | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wu Di |
| Temple | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wu di |
| Temple | Emperor Wu | 孝武 | Xiao Wu |
| Posthumous | Emperor Wu | 孝武 | Xiao Wu |
| Title | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wǔdì |
| Regnal | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wudi |
| Temple name | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wudi |
| Posthumous | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wǔdì |
| Posthumous | Emperor Wu | 孝武皇帝 | Xiaowu Huangdi |
| Regnal | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wu Di |
| Regnal name | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | |
| Temple | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wudi |
| Personal | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wu Di |
| Temple name | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | |
| Temple | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wǔdì |
| Regnal | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wǔdì |
| Temple name | Emperor Wu | 孝武 | |
| Title | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | |
| Regnal | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wǔ dì |
| Posthumous | Emperor Wu | 孝武 | Xiàowǔ |
| Regnal | Emperor Wu | 武 | Wu |
| Temple name | Emperor Wu | 孝武帝 | Xiaowudi |
| Title | Emperor Wu | 孝武 | Xiaowu |
| Title | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wǔ dì |
| Title | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wudi |
| Posthumous | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wudi |
| Temple | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | |
| Title | Emperor Wu | 漢武 | Hàn Wǔ |
| Title | Emperor Wu | 孝武皇帝 | |
| Temple name | Emperor Wu | 孝武皇帝 | Xiào Wǔ huángdì |
| Temple | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wu Di |
| Temple name | Emperor Wu | 武帝 | Wǔ dì |
| Temple | Emperor Wu | 孝武帝 | Xiàowǔ Dì |
| Title | Emperor Wu of Han | 漢武帝 | Hàn Wǔdì |
| Title | Emperor Wu of Han | 孝武帝 | |
| Personal name | Emperor Wu of Han | 漢武帝 | Hàn Wǔdì |
| Temple | Emperor Wu of Han | 漢武帝 | Han Wudi |
| Title | Emperor Wu of Han | 漢武 | Hàn Wǔ |
| Posthumous | Emperor Wu of Han | 漢武帝 | |
| Title | Emperor Wu of Han | ||
| Posthumous | Emperor Xiaowu | 孝武皇帝 | Xiaowu Huangdi |
| Regnal | Emperor Xiaowu | 孝武皇帝 | |
| Posthumous | Emperor Xiaowu | 孝武帝 | Xiaowudi |
| Posthumous | Emperor Xiaowu | 孝武帝 | Xiàowǔdì |
| Title | Han Wu | 漢武 | Han Wu |
| Title | imperial crown prince | 皇太子 | |
| Title | King Che of Jiaodong | 膠東王徹 | |
| Title | King of Jiaodong | 膠東王 | |
| Personal | Liu Che | 劉徹 | |
| Title | Marquis of Pingyang | 平陽侯 | Pingyang Hou |
| Temple name | Shizong | 世宗 | Shizong |
| Temple name | Shizong | 世宗 | Shìzōng |
| Title | Son of Heaven | 天子 | Tianzi |
| Title | Son of Heaven | 天子 | |
| Title | Son of Heaven | 天子 | Tiānzǐ |
| Title | the emperor | 上 | shang |
| Title | the emperor | 上 | Shàng |
| Title | the emperor | 上 | |
| Title | the late emperor | 先帝 | |
| Posthumous | Wu | 武帝 | Wǔdì |
| Temple name | Wu | 武帝 | Wudi |
| Temple name | Xiaowu | 孝武 | Xiaowu |
| Title | Your Majesty | 陛下 | Bixia |
| Title | 陛下 | Bixia |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Kind: sex · Value: maleExplicit · hanshu:074:s0355
- Sex: maleExplicit · hanshu:006:s0072, hanshu:008:s0001, hanshu:026:s0211, hanshu:046:s0092, hanshu:055:s0112, hanshu:085:s0100, hanshu:098:s0127, hanshu:101:s0022, hanshu:102:s0062, houhanshu:109:s0050, houhanshu:125:s0005, liaoshi:035:s0002, liaoshi:054:s0135, liaoshi:058:s0012, shiji:011:s0035, shiji:051:s0065, shiji:084:s0242, shiji:103:s0103, shiji:120:s0004
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · hanshu:048:s0254, hanshu:069:s0039, hanshu:070:s0210, hanshu:076:s0003, hanshu:103:s0107, houhanshu:031:s0010, houhanshu:108:s0055, houhanshu:110:s0004, houhanshu:127:s0140, houhanshu:128:s0142, shiji:102:s0131, shiji:104:s0110, shiji:124:s0094, shiji:127:s0128, songshi:359:s0165
- Value: male
Roles
- Aristocrat
- Royal Family Member
- Ruler
Life and dates
Death
- Date Context: Source Date: Text: 後元二年 · Western Year: BC 87Explicit · hanshu:008:s0006
- Date Context: Source Date: Text: 後元二年前後 · Western Year: BC 87Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:085:s0104
Age
- 年未二十Explicit · hanshu:074:s0355
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 元封二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: BC 109
- Source Date: Text: 元封三年夏 · Regnal Year: 3 · Season: summer · Western Year: BC 108Explicit event contextual date · shiji:115:s0052, shiji:115:s0057
- Source Date: Text: 七年四月 · Western Year: BC 150Explicit · shiji:011:s0054, shiji:011:s0055
- Source Date: Text: 七年夏四月丁巳 · Western Year: BC 150Explicit · hanshu:006:s0085
- Source Date: Text: 上方鄉文學 · Western Year: BC 121Explicit · hanshu:069:s0017
- Source Date: Text: 上曰：布衣權至使將軍為言 · Western Year: BC 127Explicit · shiji:124:s0094
- Source Date: Text: 元封元年 · Western Year: BC 110Explicit · houhanshu:108:s0057, houhanshu:108:s0060
- Source Date: Text: 元朔元年 · Western Year: BC 128Explicit event contextual date · shiji:051:s0063, shiji:051:s0065
- Source Date: Text: 元狩元年 · Western Year: BC 122Explicit · hanshu:055:s0055
- Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: BC 153Explicit · shiji:011:s0035
- Source Date: Text: 四年夏四月己巳 · Western Year: BC 153Explicit · hanshu:006:s0072
- Source Date: Text: 壬申 · Western Year: AD 85Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:109:s0050, houhanshu:109:s0045
- Source Date: Text: 太子兵事 · Western Year: BC 91Explicit · shiji:104:s0122, shiji:104:s0124
- Source Date: Text: 太子即位 · Western Year: BC 141Explicit event contextual date · shiji:120:s0005
- Source Date: Text: 孝武之世 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:101:s0006
- Source Date: Text: 孝武帝 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:127:s0180
- Source Date: Text: 孝武帝初置 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:128:s0156
- Source Date: Text: 孝武帝封泰山 · Western Year: BC 110Explicit · houhanshu:110:s0097
- Source Date: Text: 孝武帝時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87Explicit · shiji:127:s0128
- Source Date: Text: 孝武時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87Explicit · hanshu:046:s0092
- Source Date: Text: 孝武皇帝 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87Explicit · shiji:084:s0242
- Source Date: Text: 建元二年 · Western Year: BC 139
- Source Date: Text: 建武二年 · Western Year: AD 26Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:110:s0004
- Source Date: Text: 後三年 · Western Year: BC 141
- Source Date: Text: 後元二年 · Western Year: BC 87Explicit · hanshu:085:s0104
- Source Date: Text: 後元二年二月 · Western Year: BC 87Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:008:s0004
- Source Date: Text: 景武之間 · Western Interval: Start: BC 157 · End: BC 87Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:037:s0112
- Source Date: Text: 欲法武帝 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:103:s0107
- Source Date: Text: 武帝 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87
- Source Date: Text: 武帝 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:125:s0005, houhanshu:125:s0077, houhanshu:127:s0140, houhanshu:128:s0142
- Source Date: Text: 武帝之世 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:031:s0010
- Source Date: Text: 武帝在位 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87Explicit · shiji:120:s0135
- Source Date: Text: 武帝大笑 · Western Interval: Start: BC 140 · End: BC 91Explicit · shiji:104:s0110
- Source Date: Text: 武帝立 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87Explicit event contextual date · shiji:102:s0131
- Source Date: Text: 武帝立 · Western Year: BC 141Explicit · hanshu:055:s0112
- Source Date: Text: 武帝立 · Western Year: BC 141Explicit event contextual date · shiji:103:s0103
- Source Date: Text: 漢武 · Western Interval: Start: AD 141 · End: AD 87Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0012
- Source Date: Text: 漢武帝 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87Explicit · liaoshi:035:s0002
- Source Date: Text: 漢武帝以李延年典樂府 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87Explicit · liaoshi:054:s0135
- Source Date: Text: 漢武帝設魚龍曼延之戲 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87Explicit · liaoshi:054:s0165
- Source Date: Text: 漢武誅王恢 · Western Year: AD 133Explicit · songshi:359:s0165
- Source Date: Text: 癸酉 · Western Year: AD 85Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:109:s0051, houhanshu:109:s0045
- Source Date: Text: 膠東王為太子 · Western Year: BC 150Explicit event contextual date · shiji:103:s0098
- Source Date: Text: 至武帝之初七十年間 · Western Year: BC 141Explicit · hanshu:026:s0211
- Source Date: Text: 西漢武帝之世 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87Explicit · hanshu:012:s0135
Family
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- Ancestor of Emperor Xuan (宣帝)Kinship Term: great-grandson / 曾孫 · Generation Distance: 3
- Spouse of Lady Zhao (趙婕妤)Kinship Term: concubine / 婕妤 · Union Category: concubinage · Relationship State: active
Kinship Term: concubine / 婕妤 · Union Category: concubinage - Parent of Crown Prince Li (戾太子)Kinship Term: crown prince / 太子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: heir / 太子 · Parentage: biological - Parent of Crown Prince (太子)Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: Crown Prince / 太子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father - Spouse of Empress (皇后)Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Relationship State: active
- Parent of Emperor Zhao (孝昭皇帝)Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: youngest son / 少子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Line: paternal - Child of Emperor Xiaojing (孝景皇帝)Kinship Term: imperial son / 皇子 · Parentage: biological
Kinship Term: imperial son / 皇子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son - Parent of King Xu of Guangling (廣陵王胥)Kinship Term: King of Guangling / 廣陵王 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
- Parent of King Dan of Yan (燕王旦)Kinship Term: King of Yan / 燕王 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
- Child of Empress Wang (王氏)Kinship Term: mother / 太后 · Parentage: biological
Kinship Term: mother / 太后 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Career and standing
- Label: Crown Prince / 皇太子 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 七年夏四月丁巳 · Western Year: BC 150Explicit · hanshu:006:s0085
- Explicit · shiji:115:s0013
- emperor / 武帝Explicit · hanshu:074:s0003
- Title: King of Jiaodong / 膠東王 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四年夏四月己巳 · Western Year: BC 153Explicit · hanshu:006:s0072
- Title: King of Jiaodong / 膠東王 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: BC 153Explicit · shiji:011:s0035
- Title: Emperor Wu / 孝武帝 · Action: heldExplicit · shiji:127:s0128
- Status: crown-prince · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 七年四月丁巳 · Western Year: BC 150Explicit · shiji:011:s0054, shiji:011:s0055
- Status: emperor · Label: Emperor Wu / 武帝 · Action: heldExplicit · houhanshu:128:s0142, houhanshu:128:s0156
- Status: emperor · Action: held · Label: Emperor / 帝Explicit · houhanshu:127:s0140, houhanshu:127:s0180
- Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太子即位 · Western Year: BC 141Explicit · shiji:120:s0005
- Throne: Emperor of Han / 皇帝 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 後三年 · Western Year: BC 141Explicit · shiji:011:s0116
- Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武帝立 · Western Year: BC 141Explicit · shiji:102:s0131
- Date Text: early in the reign / 初即位 · Unresolved: trueExplicit · hanshu:076:s0003
- Date Text: 武帝即位Explicit · hanshu:102:s0062
- Text: 即位数年 · Unresolved: trueExplicit · hanshu:027:s0394
Places and affiliations
- Label: Han / 漢 · Relation: ruledExplicit · shiji:115:s0010, shiji:115:s0015
- Label: Han / 漢 · Relation: servedExplicit · hanshu:085:s0100
- Label: Western Han / 漢 · Relation: ruledExplicit · hanshu:098:s0127
- Polity: Han
- Polity: Han / 漢 · Relation: ruled
- Polity: Han / 漢 · Relation: servedExplicit · hanshu:055:s0112, shiji:102:s0131
- Polity: Han / 漢Strongly inferred · hanshu:069:s0037, hanshu:069:s0039
- Polity: Western Han / 漢 · Relation: ruledExplicit · shiji:127:s0128
- Polity: Western Han / 漢 · Relation: servedExplicit · shiji:103:s0103
- Polity: Western Han / 西汉 · Relation: ruledStrongly inferred · houhanshu:125:s0005
- Text: Han / 漢Explicit · hanshu:065:s0007, hanshu:065:s0111
Works and attributed material
- 作歌Explicit · hanshu:038:s0077
- Explicit · shiji:103:s0069
- Explicit · shiji:127:s0131
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: falseExplicit · shiji:115:s0041, shiji:115:s0042
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker
Events and relationships
- Kind: ritual · Role: recipient · Action: announced-sacrifice-as-Shizong · Place: Bright Hall / 明堂 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 癸酉 · Western Year: AD 85Explicit · houhanshu:109:s0051
- Kind: court · Role: authority · Action: assembled-divination-schools-and-decreed-Five-Phases-standard
- Kind: construction · Role: builder · Action: built-Wen-Bright-Hall · Place: Bright Hall above the Wen / 汶上明堂Explicit · houhanshu:109:s0050
- Kind: ritual · Role: subject · Action: capping-ceremony · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 後三年正月甲寅 · Western Year: BC 141Explicit · shiji:011:s0112
- Kind: institutional · Role: founder · Action: created-personal-guard-corps · Detail: Created the Qimen, Cifei, and Yulin corps / 置期門、佽飛、羽林之目Explicit · liaoshi:035:s0002
- Kind: military · Role: orderer · Action: dispatched-yang-pu-and-xun-zhiExplicit · shiji:115:s0016, shiji:115:s0017
- Kind: administrative · Role: actor · Action: established-office · Label: first established the colonel director of retainers with credential baton / 孝武帝初置 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 孝武帝初置 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87Explicit · houhanshu:128:s0156
- Kind: administrative · Role: actor · Action: established-office · Label: established Hu-cavalry and tiger-rushers colonels / 置胡骑、虎贲校尉 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武帝 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87Explicit · houhanshu:128:s0142
- Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: established-office · Label: established the chief commandant of waters and balances / 初置水衡都尉 · Place: Shanglin Park / 上林苑Explicit · houhanshu:127:s0180
- Explicit · shiji:115:s0030
- Explicit · shiji:115:s0047
- Kind: building · Role: patron · Action: expanded-Shanglin-and-built-JianzhangExplicit · hanshu:098:s0174
- Kind: building · Role: patron · Action: expanded-Sweet-Springs-palacesExplicit · hanshu:098:s0127
- Kind: ritual · Role: officiant · Action: feng-on-mount-tai · Place: Mount Tai / 泰山 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元封元年 · Western Year: BC 110
- Kind: ceremonial · Role: sponsor · Action: instituted-fish-dragon-pageantExplicit · liaoshi:054:s0165
- Kind: political · Role: authority · Action: ordered relocation and later arrest of Guo Jie
- Kind: administrative · Role: appointer · Action: placed-in-charge-of-music-bureau · Other Person Id: Li Yannian (李延年)Explicit · liaoshi:054:s0135
- Kind: military · Role: orderer · Action: recruited-criminals-against-joseonExplicit · shiji:115:s0015
- Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: reformed-institutionsExplicit · houhanshu:125:s0005
- Kind: economic · Role: ruler-at-start · Action: reign began after seventy years of Han peace and surplus
- Kind: travel · Role: principal · Action: sought-immortals-at-sea · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元封元年 · Western Year: BC 110Explicit · houhanshu:108:s0059
- Kind: administrative · Role: ruler · Action: staffed-secretariat-with-eunuchs · Label: used eunuchs and changed the office to director of palace secretaries and ushers / 用宦者，更为中书谒者令Explicit · houhanshu:127:s0140
- Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Wei Qing (衛青)Explicit · houhanshu:125:s0077
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: extravagant expansion draining the people · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · houhanshu:125:s0005, houhanshu:125:s0011
Source notes
- Historicity: historicalExplicit · hanshu:026:s0211, houhanshu:128:s0142
References in the histories
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