Chen Ping 陳平

Other names

Family

• Ancestor of Hui (恢)
  paternal line · 2 generations
  Strongly inferred · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passages 236-237
• Ancestor of Chen Zhang (陳掌)
  great-grandson 曾孫 · paternal line · 3 generations
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passage 242
• Ancestor of He (何)
  paternal line · 3 generations
  Strongly inferred · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passages 236-238
• Parent of Mai (買)
  son 子
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passage 236

• Kinship Role descendants · Quantity line later failed to regain the fief
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passages 241-242

Career and standing

• Chancellor 宰相
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passages 227-228
• sole Chancellor 一丞相
  BC 179 陳平專為一丞相 · Became
  Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passage 234
• Right Chancellor 右丞相
  BC 187 呂太后乃徙平為右丞相 · Transferred to
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passage 192
• Left Chancellor 左丞相
  BC 180 立孝文皇帝 · Transferred to
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passage 214
• Increased
  BC 180 立孝文皇帝 · Amount three thousand households 三千戶
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passage 215
• Marquis Xian 獻侯
  BC 178 孝文帝二年 · Posthumously granted
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passage 235

Places and affiliations

• Polity Han 漢 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passage 192

Learning and skills

• Belief the Way / Daoism 道家 · Relation Invoked
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passage 240

Works and attributed material

• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Emperor Wen (孝文皇帝)
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passages 210-212, 221, 223-224, 226-228
• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Zhou Bo (勃)
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passages 231-232
• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passages 240-241

Events and relationships

• Advised arrest
  BC 195 為高帝謀執樊噲 · Political · Counselor · With Fan Kuai (樊噲)
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passage 198
• Explained chancellor directs officials not details
  Court · Left Chancellor
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passages 220-221, 223-224, 226-228
• Exterminated Lu clan and enthroned Wen
  BC 180 呂太后崩 · Political · Plotter · With Zhou Bo (勃)
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passage 205
• Feigned compliance
  BC 187 to BC 180 呂太后 · Political · Minister
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passage 204
• Increased indulgence after slander
  Personal · Subject
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passage 199
• Pleaded illness to yield senior post
  Political · Minister · With Zhou Bo (勃)
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passage 208

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment original author of the plot to destroy the Lu clan and enthrone Emperor Wen · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passage 205
• Assessment too many secret intrigues, which the Way forbids; the line cannot rise again because of hidden calamity · Mode self-report Speaker Chen Ping (陳平)
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passages 240-241
• BC 180 立孝文皇帝
  Item a thousand catties of gold 金千斤 · Relation Bestowed
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passage 215

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 56, passage 192