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Overview The translated histories identify Huhanye as a ruler and tribal leader. This record brings together 7 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
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Huhanye
呼韓邪
Huhanye
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Huhanye
呼韓
Hūhán
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Huhanye Chanyu
呼韓邪單于
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Book of Han, Chapter 89 Volume 78: Xiao Wangzhi · 6 passages
上從其議，後竟遣兵護輔呼韓邪單于定其國。
The throne took his advice; in time troops did go to shield Huhanye and settle his realm.
初，匈奴呼韓邪單于來朝，詔公卿議其儀，丞相霸、御史大夫定國議曰：「聖王之制，施德行禮，先京師而後諸夏，先諸夏而後夷狄。
Earlier, when Huhanye Chanyu of the Xiongnu came to court, an edict ordered the dukes and ministers to discuss the proper ritual. Chancellor Huang Ba and Imperial Counselor Yu Dingguo proposed, "In the institutions of the sage kings, virtue is extended and ritual performed first in the capital, then among the central states; first among the central states, then among the Yi and Di peoples.
陛下聖德充塞天地，光被四表，匈奴單于鄉風慕化，奉珍朝賀，自古未之有也。
Your virtue fills heaven and earth; the chanyu has bent to the breeze of civilization with gifts and homage—unprecedented in the records.
望之以為：「單于非正朔所加，故稱敵國，宜待以不臣之禮，位在諸侯王上。
Wangzhi held, "The chanyu is not subject to our calendar and new moons; therefore he is called the ruler of a rival state. He should be received with the ritual due to one who is not a subject, and his seat should be above the kings of the domains.
今匈奴單于稱北籓，朝正朔，朕之不逮，德不能弘覆。
The chanyu now calls himself a northern bulwark and accepts Our calendar, yet Our virtue is too slight to embrace every people.
其以客禮待之，令單于位在諸侯王上，贊謁稱臣而不名。」
Receive him as an honored guest, seat him above the kings, and in the levee let heralds call him 'subject' without intoning his personal name."
Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 47 Volume 47 Biographies 28: Wang Rong, Xie Tiao · 1 passage