Qin and Han · Ruler

Emperor Yuan 元帝

Yuan Di

Attested BC 49 - BC 33

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Emperor Yuan was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 49 to BC 33 元帝
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passage 16

Places and affiliations

Polity Western Han 西漢 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passage 16

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passage 2

References in the histories

Book of Later Han, Chapter 40Volume 35: Biographies of Zhang, Cao, Zheng · 3 passages

元帝以來，宗廟奉祠高皇帝為受命祖，孝文皇帝為太宗，孝武皇帝為世宗，皆如舊制。 Since Emperor Yuan, the ancestral temples had offered sacrifices to Emperor Gao as the ancestor who received the mandate, to Emperor Wen as Taizong, and to Emperor Wu as Shizong, all according to the old system.

詔下公卿，大司徒戴涉、大司空竇融議：『宜以宣、元、成、哀、平五帝四世代今親廟，宣、元皇帝尊為祖、父，可親奉祠，成帝以下，有司行事，別為南頓君立皇考廟。 The edict went to the high ministers. Dai She and Dou Rong proposed: "Use the five rulers from Xuan through Ping, with four generations, in place of today's private shrines; Xuan and Yuan as grandfather and father may receive worship from you in person; from Cheng on let officials officiate; add a separate "imperial father" temple for Lord Nandun.

是時宗廟未備，自元帝以上，祭於洛陽高廟，成帝以下，祠於長安高廟，其南頓四世，隨所在而祭焉。 The national shrines were still incomplete: from Yuan upward rites were at Luoyang's high temple, from Cheng downward at Chang'an's high temple, while the four Nandun generations were honored wherever their tablets happened to be.