Hu Changren (胡長仁)

Overview

Hu Changren was an official and Imperial Affine.

IdentityHistorical · Male

Roles

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Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Xiaolong	孝隆	Xiaolong

Life and dates

Death

ordered to die 賜死
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 78

Attested activity

AD 570 to AD 576 Houzhu era
Strongly inferred · Book of Northern Qi 9, passage 128
AD 568 世祖崩
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 66
AD 561 to AD 565 大寧後出為西兗州前後
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 30
AD 568 天統四年
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 33, passage 136
AD 561 to AD 570 武成皇後之兄
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 63

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Sibling of Empress Hu (胡皇后)
brother 兄 · Full siblings
elder brother 兄
Sources vary in certainty · Book of Northern Qi 9, passages 128, 133; Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 63
Parent of Daughter of Hu Changren (胡長仁女)
daughter 女
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 79
Parent of Empress Hu of Houzhu (胡氏)
daughter 女
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 9, passage 128
Kin of Hu Changcai (胡長粲)
elder clan cousin 從祖兄 · paternal line
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 80
Child of Hu Yan (胡延之)
father 父
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 64

Kinship Role younger brothers and others · Count 7 · seven granted princely titles
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 79

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Career and standing

Director of the Department of State Affairs 尚書令
Held
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 65
Right Vice Director of the Masters of Writing 右僕射
Held
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 65
posthumous honors 贈謚
Received
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 79
Prince of Longdong 隴東王
Enfeoffed
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 66
Prince of Longdong 隴東王
Held
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 9, passage 128
granted death 賜死
Death sentence · Ordered to die
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 78

Places and affiliations

At Linjing in Anding 安定臨涇
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 63

Works and attributed material

Speech · Addressee · With Zou Xiaoyu (鄒孝裕)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passages 73-74

Events and relationships

Deliberated government after Shizu’s death
Political · Participant
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 66
Denounced Changcan to empress dowager
Political · Accuser · With Hu Changcai (胡長粲)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passages 88-89
Plotted to kill He Shikai
Political · Conspirator · With He Shikai (和士開)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passages 73, 78
Privately denounced Jishu
Political · Denouncer · With Cui Jishu (崔季舒)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 30
Relation Rival of · Person He Shikai (和士開)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passages 72, 78
Relation Associate of · Person Zou Xiaoyu (鄒孝裕)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 67

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Relation Associate of · Person Lu Renhui (陸仁惠)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 67
Relation Associate of · Person Lu Yuanliang (盧元亮)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 67

Assessments and attributes

Assessment arrogant and fearless through kinship · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 48, passage 76

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 39, passage 30

References in the histories

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History

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 9Volume 9 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage

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後主皇后胡氏，隴東王長仁女也。 Empress Hu of Houzhu was the daughter of Prince Longdong Changren.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 33Volume 33 Biographies 25: Xiao Yuanming; Xiao Zhi (Liang); Xiao Tui; Xiao Fang (Liang); Xu Zhicai · 1 passage

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和士開欲依次轉進，以之才附籍兗州，卽是本屬，遂奏附除刺史，以胡長仁為左僕射，士開為右僕射。 He Shikai wished to advance in regular order. Because Zhicai's household register was attached to Yan province, which was his home jurisdiction, he memorialized that Zhicai be sent out as inspector there, with Hu Changren as left vice director and He Shikai as right vice director.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 39Volume 39 Biographies 31: Cui Jishu; Zu Ting · 1 passage

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以判事式為胡長仁密言其短，出為西兗州刺史。 Hu Changren privately denounced his faults in a case-review form, and he was sent out as governor of Western Yanzhou.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 48Volume 48 Biographies 40: Imperial Affines · 10 passages

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齊氏后妃之族，多自保全，唯胡長仁以譖訴貽禍，斛律光以地勢被戮，俱非女謁盛衰之所致也。 Among Northern Qi empresses’ kin, many kept themselves safe; only Hu Changren fell to denunciation, and Hulu Guang was killed for his territorial power—neither owed simply to the waxing and waning of palace women.

胡長仁，字孝隆，安定臨涇人，武成皇後之兄。 Hu Changren, styled Xiaolong, was from Linjing in Anding and elder brother of Wucheng’s Empress Hu.

長仁累遷右樸射及尚書令。 Changren rose to right vice director of the Masters of Writing and director of the Department of State Affairs.

世祖崩，預參朝政，封隴東王。 At Shizu’s death he joined in governing and was made prince of Longdong.

長仁每上省，孝裕必方駕而來。 Whenever Changren entered the provincial offices, Xiaoyu arrived in a matching carriage.

長仁私遊密席，處處追尋。 His secret feasts and private parties were notorious.

孝裕又說長仁曰：「王陽臥疾，士開必來，因而殺之。 Xiaoyu told Changren, “Feign illness—when Shikai comes, kill him.

後長仁倚親，驕豪無畏憚。 Later, secure in his kinship, Changren grew arrogant and fearless.

長仁怨憤，謀令剌士開，事覺，遂賜死。 Changren, bitter, plotted assassination; discovered, he was ordered to take his own life.

長仁心欲入處機要之地，為執政不許，長仁疑長粲通謀，大以為恨。 Changren wanted to enter the key councils, but those in power would not permit it. Suspecting that Changcan had conspired against him, Changren deeply resented him.