Hunye (渾邪) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Hunye as an administrator, aristocrat, official, and tribal leader. This record brings together 3 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Hunye	渾邪	Hunye
Title	Governor of Longxi	隴西太守
Personal	Hunye	渾邪	Húnxié
Personal name	Hunye	渾邪	Hunye
Title	Marquis of Pingqu	平曲侯

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · shiji:011:s0045
Value: male
Strongly inferred · hanshu:068:s0166

Roles

Administrator
Aristocrat
Official
Tribal Leader

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 六年春 · Western Year: BC 151
Explicit · shiji:011:s0045
Source Date: Text: 會渾邪等降 · Western Year: BC 121
Explicit · hanshu:068:s0166
Source Date: Text: 渾邪 · Western Year: BC 121
Explicit · hanshu:069:s0037

Career and standing

Label: Governor of Longxi / 隴西太守 · Action: held
Explicit · shiji:011:s0045
Title: Marquis of Pingqu / 平曲侯 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年春 · Western Year: BC 151
Explicit · shiji:011:s0045

Places and affiliations

Polity: Xiongnu / 匈奴
Strongly inferred · hanshu:069:s0037

Events and relationships

Kind: surrender · Role: surrenderer · Action: surrendered to Han
Explicit · hanshu:068:s0166

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 68Volume 58: Gongsun Hong, Bu Shi and Er Kuan · 1 passage

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歲餘，會渾邪等降，縣官費眾，倉府空，貧民大徙，皆卬給縣官，無以盡贍。 A year later, when Hunye and his people came in, state expenses soared, the treasuries ran dry, and refugees mobbed the counties beyond what rations could feed.

Book of Han, Chapter 69Volume 59: Zhang Tang · 1 passage

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會渾邪等降，漢大興兵伐匈奴，山東水旱，貧民流徙，皆卬給縣官，縣官空虛。 When Hunye and his followers submitted, the Han mobilized on a vast scale against the Xiongnu; floods and drought struck the eastern heartland; refugees streamed from their homes and looked to the state for relief until the public granaries stood bare.

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 11Annals of the Xiaojing Emperor · 1 passage

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六年春，封中尉（趙）綰為建陵侯，江都丞相嘉為建平侯，隴西太守渾邪為平曲侯，趙丞相嘉為江陵侯，故將軍布為鄃侯。 In the spring of his sixth year, he enfeoffed Zhao Wan, the Commandant, as Marquis of Jianling; Jia, Chancellor of Jiangdu, as Marquis of Jianping; Hunye, Governor of Longxi, as Marquis of Pingqu; Jia, Chancellor of Zhao, as Marquis of Jiangling; and Bu, a former general, as Marquis of Shu.