Ancient China · Named Individual

Huan Tui 桓魋

Attested BC 500 - BC 500

Passages
2
Chapters
2
Histories
2

Overview

Huan Tui was a Named Individual.

IdentityHistorical · Male

Life and dates

Attested activity

Family

Key source chapters

  1. Book of Later Han, Chapter 122 Volume 111: Commanderies and States Part Three 1 passage
  2. Draft History of Qing, Chapter 143 Volume 143 Treatises 118: Penal Law 2 1 passage

Assessments and attributes

References in the histories

Book of Later Han, Chapter 122Volume 111: Commanderies and States Part Three · 1 passage
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〖彭城〗古大彭邑。北征記城西二十里有山，山有楚元王墓。伏滔北征記曰：「城北六里有山，臨泗，有宋桓魋石槨，皆靑石，隱起龜龍鱗鳳之象。」有铁。 Pengcheng was the ancient settlement of Great Peng. The Beizheng ji says a mountain twenty li west of the city held the tomb of King Yuan of Chu. Fu Tao's Beizheng ji says, “Six li north of the city was a mountain, facing the Si River, with Song Huan Tui's stone outer coffin. All the stones were blue, with raised images of turtles, dragons, scales, and phoenixes.” Pengcheng was also an iron-working county.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 143Volume 143 Treatises 118: Penal Law 2 · 1 passage
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夫以一人之故而波及全家，以無罪之人而科以重罪，漢文帝以為不正之法反害於民，北魏崔挺嘗曰『一人有罪，延及闔門，則司馬牛受桓魋之罰，柳下惠膺盜跖之誅，不亦哀哉』，其言皆篤論也。 Punishing an entire family for one person's crime and imposing heavy penalties on the innocent—Emperor Wen of Han called such law harmful to the people; Cui Ting of Northern Wei wrote that when one person's guilt reaches the whole household, "Sima Niu would suffer Huan Tui's punishment and Liu Xiahui would bear Zhi's execution—is this not lamentable?"—sound judgment all.