Hanlin (翰林) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Hanlin as a named individual. This record brings together 9 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Hanlin	翰林	Hanlin
Personal name	Hanlin	翰林
Title	Hanlin host	翰林主人

Identity

Historicity: Literary
Identification: Named
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

Named Individual

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 長楊賦 · Western Year: BC 11
Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:099:s0005, hanshu:099:s0007

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Book of Han, Chapter 99Volume 87b: Yang Xiong 2 · 9 passages

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雄從至射熊館，還，上《長楊賦》，聊因筆墨之成文章，故借翰林以為主人，子墨為客卿以風。 Yang Xiong had gone along to the lodge; when he came back he submitted his "Rhapsody on Changyang," casting the piece as a dialogue between a Hanlin host and a guest named Zimo so that counsel could be offered without blunt memorial rhetoric.

子墨客卿問於翰林主人曰：「蓋聞聖主之養民也，仁沾而恩洽，動不為身。 The guest Zimo said to the Hanlin host: "I have heard that when a sage ruler nurtures the people, benevolence soaks them and grace runs deep, and that he acts for the realm, not for himself.

今年獵長楊，先命右扶風，左太華而右褒斜，□截□而為弋，紆南山以為□，羅千乘於林莽，列萬騎於山隅，帥軍□，錫戎獲胡。 This year’s Changyang drive began with orders to Right Fufeng: Mount Taihua to the left, Baoxie to the right, passes blocked and cordons set, the southern range bent into a vast corral, a thousand chariots massed in the brush, ten thousand horsemen along the ridges, the host marshaled so that soldiers could win glory by seizing Hu prisoners.

且人君以玄默為神，淡泊為德，今樂遠出以露威靈，數搖動以罷車甲，本非人主之急務也，蒙竊或焉。」 A sovereign is supposed to rule from stillness and spare simplicity; riding far afield to flaunt majesty and jostling the host again and again until chariots and mail are exhausted is not what the throne most needs—I say this with private misgiving."

翰林主人曰：「吁，謂之茲邪！ The host cried, "Ah—is that what you think?

主人曰：「昔有強秦，封豕其士，□窳其民，鑿齒之徒相與摩牙而爭之，豪俊麋沸雲擾，群黎為之不康。 The host said: "Once there was brutal Qin, devouring its land like a boar and grinding its people down; ruffians sharpened their teeth on one another while heroes boiled up like stampeding deer in a fog, and the common folk knew no rest.

驅橐它，燒□蠡，分梨單于，磔裂屬國，夷坑谷，拔鹵莽，刊山石，蹂屍輿廝，係累老弱，兗鋋瘢耆、金鏃淫夷者數十萬人，皆稽顙樹頷，扶服蛾伏，二十餘年矣，尚不敢惕息。 Camels were driven before the host, signal fires blazed on beacon towers, the Chanyu’s power was broken, client tribes ripped apart, gullies filled, salt pans cleared, cliffs carved with records of victory, the dead ground underfoot, old men and boys roped in lines—hundreds of thousands scarred by blades and bolts groveled brow to dust and dared not catch their breath for twenty years.

乃時以有年出兵，整輿竦戎，振師五莋，習馬長楊，簡力狡獸，校武票禽。 So, when harvests allow, the host moves out: chariots aligned, troops stiffened, maneuvers held at Wuzuo, horses schooled at Changyang, sturdy game chosen for the chase, and archers matched against swift quarry.

言未卒，墨客降席再拜稽首曰：「大哉體乎！ Before the host had finished, Zimo left his cushion, bowed twice, and touched his forehead to the floor: "What a vast design!