Qin and Han · Ruler

Emperor Wen 文帝

Wen Di

Attested BC 180 - BC 157

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Emperor Wen was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 180 to BC 157 文帝
Strongly inferred · Book of Later Han 24, passage 213

Places and affiliations

Polity Western Han 西漢 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 24, passage 213

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · With Zhou Bo (周勃) · Mode quoted-by Speaker Guangwu (世祖)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 24, passage 213

References in the histories

Book of Later Han, Chapter 24Volume 21: Biographies of Ren, Li, Wan, Pi, Liu, Geng · 1 passage

純辭就國，帝曰：『文帝謂周勃「丞相吾所重，君為我率諸侯就國」，今亦然也。』 When Geng Chun asked leave to retire to his fief, the emperor quoted Emperor Wen of Former Han to Zhou Bo: "The chancellor is indispensable to me, but you must still lead the marquises home to their estates." "The same holds now," he said.