Qin and Han · Ruler

Emperor Wu 武帝

Wudi

Attested BC 150 - BC 87

Passages
12
Chapters
3
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Wu as a royal family member and ruler. This record brings together 12 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Emperor Wu 武帝 Wudi
Title Emperor
Temple name Emperor Wu 武帝 Wudi
Temple Emperor Wu 武帝 Wudi
Regnal Emperor Wu 武帝 Wǔdì
Temple Emperor Xiaowu 孝武帝 Xiào Wǔdì
Title King of Jiaodong 膠東王 Jiaodong wang
Title Your Majesty 陛下
Title

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Royal Family Member
  • Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 其夏 · Western Year: BC 150
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:056:s0036
  • Source Date: Text: 孝武帝以下 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87
  • Source Date: Text: 武帝時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87
    Explicit · hanshu:026:s0274
  • Source Date: Text: 武帝末年 · Western Interval: Start: BC 90 · End: BC 87
    Explicit · hanshu:026:s0244

Career and standing

  • Label: crown prince / 太子 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 其夏,上立膠東王為太子 · Western Year: BC 150
    Explicit · hanshu:056:s0036

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: appointment · Role: appointer · Action: appointed · Other Person Id: Zhao Guo (趙過)
    Explicit · hanshu:026:s0247
  • Kind: enfeoffment · Role: grantor · Action: enfeoffed · Other Person Id: Marquis of Enriching the People (富民侯) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武帝末年 · Western Interval: Start: BC 90 · End: BC 87
    Explicit · hanshu:026:s0244
  • Kind: administrative · Role: initiator · Action: established · Event: establishment of twenty-six capital-office prisons / 置中都官狱二十六所 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 孝武帝以下 · Western Interval: Start: BC 141 · End: BC 87
  • Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: regretted-campaigns · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 武帝末年 · Western Interval: Start: BC 90 · End: BC 87
    Explicit · hanshu:026:s0244

Source notes

References in the histories

Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.

Book of Han, Chapter 26Volume 24a: Treatise on Trade 1 · 4 passages
Book of Han, Chapter 56Volume 47: The Three Sons of Emperor Wen · 7 passages
Book of Later Han, Chapter 126Volume 115: Officials Part Two · 1 passage