Emperor Gaodi of Han (漢高帝)

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Gaodi of Han as a ruler. This record brings together 22 passages from 6 chapters across 5 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Emperor Gaodi of Han	漢高帝	Hàn Gāodì
Title	Duke of Pei	沛公
Title	Emperor Gao	高帝
Temple name	Emperor Gaodi	高帝	Gāodì
Title	Emperor Gaodi of Han	漢高帝	Hàn Gāodì
Title	Emperor Gaozu	高庙	Gaozu
Temple	Emperor Gaozu	高祖
Title	Emperor Gaozu	高皇帝
Title	Emperor Gaozu of Han	漢高祖	Hàn Gāozǔ
Personal name	Emperor Gaozu of Han	漢高帝	Han Gaozu
Title	Emperor Gaozu of Han	高帝
Temple name	Gaozu	高祖	Gāozǔ
Temple name	Gaozu	高祖	Gaozu
Temple	Gaozu	高祖	Gāozǔ
Temple name	Gaozu	高帝	Gaozu
Title	King of Han	漢王

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · chenshu:007:s0183, hanshu:026:s0312, xintangshu:022:s0021
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · houhanshu:126:s0045, shiji:057:s0004
Value: male
Strongly inferred · shiji:026:s0041

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天下既定 · Western Interval: Start: BC 206 · End: BC 195
Explicit · hanshu:026:s0313
Source Date: Text: 漢興 · Western Year: BC 206
Explicit event contextual date · shiji:026:s0041
Source Date: Text: 漢高帝 · Western Interval: Start: BC 202 · End: BC 195
Explicit · chenshu:007:s0183, chenshu:007:s0184, xintangshu:022:s0021
Source Date: Text: 燕太子使荆轲劫始皇 · Western Year: BC 227
Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:126:s0267
Source Date: Text: 高祖 · Western Interval: Start: BC 202 · End: BC 195
Strongly inferred · houhanshu:126:s0045
Source Date: Text: 高祖乃令民得賣子 · Western Interval: Start: BC 206 · End: BC 195
Explicit · hanshu:026:s0312
Source Date: Text: 高祖之為沛公初起 · Western Interval: Start: BC 209 · End: BC 195
Explicit event contextual date · shiji:057:s0004

Family

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Spouse of Empress Lü (呂后)
Kinship Term: empress / 后 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband
Kinship Term: empress / 后 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife

Places and affiliations

Label: Han / 漢 · Relation: served
Explicit · shiji:057:s0034
Polity: Han · Relation: ruled
Explicit · shiji:026:s0041
Polity: Han / 漢 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · chenshu:007:s0183, hanshu:026:s0310, hanshu:026:s0312, xintangshu:022:s0021
Place: Gaozu's shrine / 高庙 · Relation: enshrined-at
Explicit · houhanshu:126:s0045, houhanshu:126:s0049

Learning and skills

Belief: water virtue / 水德 · Relation: claimed
Explicit · shiji:026:s0041

Works and attributed material

Work: Bayu / 巴渝 · Relation: commissioned
Explicit · xintangshu:022:s0021
Kind: narrative · Role: subject
Explicit · hanshu:026:s0314
Kind: quoted-passage · Role: subject · Speaker Person Id: Lei Cizong (雷次宗) · Quoted: true
Explicit · chenshu:007:s0183, chenshu:007:s0184
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Explicit · shiji:026:s0041

Events and relationships

Kind: famine-response · Role: ruler · Action: allowed selling children and migrating to Shu-Han for food
Explicit · hanshu:026:s0312
Kind: administrative · Role: founder · Action: established · Place: Jiancheng / 建城 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢高帝 · Western Interval: Start: BC 202 · End: BC 195
Explicit · chenshu:007:s0183, chenshu:007:s0184
Kind: fiscal · Role: ruler · Action: lightened land tax to one-fifteenth and reduced prohibitions
Explicit · hanshu:026:s0314
Kind: institutional · Role: ruler · Action: replaced-daggers-with-tablets · Label: laid aside arms and exchanged daggers for tablets / 偃武行文，故易之以板
Explicit · houhanshu:126:s0267