Qin and Han · Ruler

Emperor Guangwu 光武

Guangwu

Attested AD 25 - AD 57

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Emperor Guangwu was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 25 to AD 57 光武
Strongly inferred · zizhitongjian:153:s0008b; zizhitongjian:153:s0008c

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Kin of Emperor Yuan (元帝)
distant mourning kin 疏絕服 · Uncertain
Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0008c
Child of Lord of Nandun (南頓君)
father 父
Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0008b

Places and affiliations

Polity Han 漢 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0008b

Events and relationships

Kept a son's duty and entered the great lineage
Ritual · Successor · Mode quotation Speaker Yuan Yu (元彧)
Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0008c
Worshipped his father at Chunling
Ritual · Sacrificer · At Chunling 舂陵 · With Lord of Nandun (南頓君) · Mode quotation Speaker Yuan Yu (元彧)
Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0008b

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0008b

References in the histories

Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Chapter 153Volume 153 Liang Records 9 · 2 passages

將遷神主於太廟，以高祖為伯考，大司馬兼錄尚書臨淮王彧表諫，以為：「漢高祖立太上皇廟於香街，光武祀南頓君於舂陵。 As the court prepared to install their spirit tablets in the Imperial Ancestral Temple and rank Emperor Gaozu as a collateral forebear, the Grand Marshal and acting Director of the Imperial Secretariat, Prince of Linhuai, Yuan Yu, submitted a memorial of protest: "Emperor Gaozu of Han raised a temple to the Supreme Emperor on Fragrant Street, and Emperor Guangwu worshipped his father at Chunling.

元帝之於光武，已疏絕服，猶身奉子道，入繼大宗。 Between Emperor Yuan and Emperor Guangwu the mourning tie was already distant, yet Guangwu still personally kept a son's duty and entered the succession of the great lineage.