Overview
The translated histories identify Huan Xuan as a general, named individual, rebel, and ruler. This record brings together 14 passages from 8 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Huan Xuan | 桓玄 | Huan Xuan |
| Personal name | Huan Xuan | 桓玄 | Huan Xuan |
| Personal | Huan Xuan | 桓玄 | |
| Personal | Huan Xuan | 桓玄 | Huán Xuán |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · songshu:049:s0087
Roles
- General
- Named Individual
- Rebel
- Ruler
- Statesman
- Warlord
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: before 義熙六年 · Western Year: AD 410Explicit event contextual date · songshu:056:s0049, songshu:056:s0144
- Source Date: Text: 元興三年 · Western Year: AD 404Explicit event contextual date · songshu:049:s0087
- Source Date: Text: 大亨 · Western Year: AD 403Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:055:s0074
- Source Date: Text: 建元三年 · Western Year: AD 481Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:010:s0054, nanqishu:010:s0058
- Western Interval: Start: AD 402 · End: AD 404 · Source Date: Text: 桓玄輔政，領平西將軍，以欣為平西Explicit · songshu:062:s0018
- Source Date: Text: 桓玄輔政 · Western Interval: Start: AD 402 · End: AD 404Explicit · songshu:055:s0116
- Source Date: Text: 永初元年 · Western Year: AD 420Explicit event contextual date · songshu:003:s0219
Family
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- Child of Huan Wen (桓溫)Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Career and standing
- Label: Grand Marshal / 太尉 · Action: held while controlling governmentExplicit · songshu:056:s0049
Works and attributed material
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Yang Xin (羊欣) · Quoted: true · Provenance: Mode: quoted-speech · Speaker Person Id: Huan Xuan (桓玄)Explicit · songshu:062:s0020, songshu:062:s0021
Events and relationships
- Kind: appointment · Action: appointed Kong Linzhi Libationer of the Western Pavilion · Other Person Id: Kong Linzhi (孔琳之)Explicit · songshu:056:s0049
- Kind: political · Role: usurper · Action: founded-revolutionExplicit · songshu:003:s0219
- Kind: policy · Action: proposed abolishing coin in favor of grain and clothExplicit · songshu:056:s0050
- Kind: legal-policy · Action: proposed restoring corporal mutilationExplicit · songshu:056:s0082
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: favored adherents and flatterers and did not favor Kong Linzhi when Linzhi resisted his wishes · Other Person Id: Kong Linzhi (孔琳之) · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · songshu:056:s0099
- Assessment: grasped the beginning of the currency question but not its end · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · songshu:056:s0211
References in the histories
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