Emperor Yuan 元帝

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Title only

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
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Roles

• Musician
• Ruler
• Scholar

Career and standing

• Source Date: Text: 及即位 · Western Interval: Start: BC 48 · End: BC 33
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Places and affiliations

• Place: Weiling / 渭陵 · Relation: buried-at · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 秋七月丙戌 · Season: autumn · Lunar Month: 7 · Sexagenary Day: 丙戌 · Western Year: BC 33
  Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:010:s0251

Learning and skills

• Belief: Confucianism / 儒 · Relation: adherent-of
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• Skill: qin and se zithers / 琴瑟 · Level: practiced
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• Skill: vertical flute / 洞簫 · Level: practiced
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• Skill: historical writing / 史書 · Level: skilled
  Explicit · hanshu:010:s0252
• Skill: composing and setting melodies with sectional rhythm / 自度曲，被歌聲，分刌節度 · Level: utmost refinement
  Explicit · hanshu:010:s0253

Works and attributed material

• Kind: appraisal · Role: subject · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · hanshu:010:s0252, hanshu:010:s0253, hanshu:010:s0254, hanshu:010:s0255, hanshu:010:s0256

Events and relationships

• Kind: burial · Role: deceased · Action: buried · Place: Weiling / 渭陵 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 秋七月丙戌 · Season: autumn · Lunar Month: 7 · Sexagenary Day: 丙戌 · Western Year: BC 33
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• Kind: musical · Role: performer-composer · Action: played instruments and composed songs to the utmost subtlety
  Explicit · hanshu:010:s0253
• Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: summoned Confucian scholars and entrusted government to them · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 及即位 · Western Interval: Start: BC 48 · End: BC 33
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• Relation: employed-as-chancellor · Person Id: Xue (薛) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 貢、薛、韋、匡迭為宰相 · Western Interval: Start: BC 48 · End: BC 33
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• Relation: employed-as-chancellor · Person Id: Wei (韋) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 貢、薛、韋、匡迭為宰相 · Western Interval: Start: BC 48 · End: BC 33
  Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:010:s0254
• Relation: employed-as-chancellor · Person Id: Gong (貢) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 貢、薛、韋、匡迭為宰相 · Western Interval: Start: BC 48 · End: BC 33
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• Relation: employed-as-chancellor · Person Id: Kuang (匡) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 貢、薛、韋、匡迭為宰相 · Western Interval: Start: BC 48 · End: BC 33
  Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:010:s0254

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: generous and broad-minded toward subordinates; conduct from reverence and frugality; commands mild and refined, with the noble manner of antiquity · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · hanshu:010:s0256
• Assessment: hamstrung by textual niceties and lingered without deciding · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · hanshu:010:s0255
• Assessment: possessed many talents and skills · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report
  Explicit · hanshu:010:s0252
• Kind: character · Statement: 宽弘尽下; 恭俭; 号令温雅
  Explicit · hanshu:010:s0256