Qin and Han · Eunuch Official

Duan Gui 段珪

Died AD 189

Passages: 6
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Duan Gui was an eunuch Official.

Life and dates

Death

AD 189 八月
Drowned · At Little Ping Ford 小平津
Strongly inferred · Book of Later Han 76, passages 218, 220
AD 189 漢中平六年
Execution
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 5, passage 66

Attested activity

AD 189 八月
Dated from the passage context · Book of Later Han 76, passage 193
AD 189 漢中平六年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 5, passage 66

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Regular Attendant 常侍
Held
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 76, passage 193

Places and affiliations

Polity Eastern Han 東漢 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 76, passage 190

Events and relationships

Released empress dowager after Lu Zhi's rebuke
Political · Captor · With Empress Dowager He (何太后)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 76, passage 208

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 76, passage 186

References in the histories

Book of Later Han, Chapter 76Volume 69: Biographies of Dou, He · 5 passages

又張讓等使人潛聽，具聞其語，乃率常侍段珪、畢嵐等數十人，持兵竊自側闥入，伏省中。 Zhang Rang had listeners who caught every word; he and Duan Gui, Bi Lan, and dozens of others armed themselves, slipped in through a side door, and hid inside.

讓、珪等為詔，以故太尉樊陵為司隸校尉，少府許相為河南尹。 Zhang Rang, Duan Gui, and the others forged an edict appointing the former Grand Commandant Fan Ling as Metropolitan Commandant and the Minister of the Lesser Treasury Xu Xiang as Governor of Henan.

尚書盧植執戈於閣道窗下，仰數段珪。 Lu Zhi of the secretariat stood under the gallery with a halberd and shouted up at Duan Gui.

段珪等懼，乃釋太后。 Duan Gui and the others lost their nerve and let the empress dowager go.

張讓、段珪等困迫，遂將帝與陳留王數十人步出穀門，奔小平津。 Cornered, Zhang Rang and Duan Gui fled on foot through the Grain Gate toward Little Ping Ford with the emperor, the Prince of Chenliu, and a few dozen followers.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 5Volume 5 Annals 5: Prince of Hailing · 1 passage

案漢中平六年，獻帝卽位，便改元爲光熹，張讓、段珪誅後，改元爲昭寧，董卓輔政，改元爲永漢，一歲四號也。 It is on record that in Han Zhongping 6, when Emperor Xian ascended, the era was at once changed to Guangxi; after Zhang Rang and Duan Gui were killed it became Zhaoning; when Dong Zhuo seized power it became Yonghan—four era names in one year.