Qin and Han · Royal Family Member

Father of Emperor Xuan 宣帝之父

Attested BC 91

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Father of Emperor Xuan was a Royal Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 91 巫蠱之禍前後
Strongly inferred · Book of Later Han 40, passage 20

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Emperor Xuan (宣帝)
father 父
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 40, passage 20

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 · 1 passage

昔高帝以自受命，不由太上，宣帝以孫後祖，不敢私親，故為父立廟，獨群臣侍祠。 Gaozu took the mandate in his own person, not from a "supreme emperor"; Emperor Xuan, exalting an ancestor as a grandson, still shrank from privileging kin and built a father-temple served only by ministers.