Qin and Han · Ruler

King of Hengshan 衡山王

Hengshan Wang

Attested BC 128 - BC 123

Passages: 4
Chapters: 4
Histories: 2

Overview

The translated histories identify King of Hengshan as a rebel, royal family member, and ruler. This record brings together 4 passages from 4 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	King of Hengshan	衡山王	Hengshan Wang
Title	Hengshan	衡山
Title	Hengshan	衡山	Hengshan
Title	King of Hengshan	衡山王	Hengshan Wang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Title only
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · shiji:059:s0042
Value: male
Strongly inferred · hanshu:068:s0120

Roles

Rebel
Royal Family Member
Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 元朔中 · Western Interval: Start: BC 128 · End: BC 123
Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:068:s0110, hanshu:068:s0120
Source Date: Text: 衡山謀反 · Western Year: BC 124
Explicit event contextual date · shiji:059:s0042

Events and relationships

Kind: rebellion · Role: rebel · Action: plotted rebellion
Explicit · hanshu:068:s0120

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 27Volume 24b: Treatise on Trade 2 · 1 passage

其明年，淮南、衡山、江都王謀反跡見，而公卿尋端治之，竟其黨與，坐而死者數萬人，吏益慘急而法令察。 The next year, traces of rebellion by the kings of Huainan, Hengshan, and Jiangdu appeared. The dukes and ministers pursued the leads and prosecuted the cases through all their associates; tens of thousands were convicted and died, while officials became more harsh and urgent and the laws more searching.

Book of Han, Chapter 44Volume 35: Princes of Jing, Yan and Wu · 1 passage

發使遺諸侯書曰：「吳王劉濞敬問膠西王、膠東王、菑川王、濟南王、趙王、楚王、淮南王、衡山王、廬江王、故長沙王子：幸教！ His messengers carried a manifesto: “The king of Wu Liu Bi greets the kings of Jiaoxi, Jiaodong, Zichuan, Jinan, Zhao, Chu, Huainan, Hengshan, Lujiang, and the heir of old Changsha—may you instruct me!

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

後淮南、衡山謀反，治黨與方急，弘病甚，自以為無功而封侯，居宰相位，宜佐明主填撫國家，使人由臣子之道。 When Huainan and Hengshan rose, the dragnet for their partisans tightened; Hong lay gravely ill, convinced that he—a man without battlefield merit who had still been made marquis and chancellor—should be steadying the realm and teaching subjects their duty to ruler and father.

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 59House of the Five Clans · 1 passage

淮南、衡山謀反時，建頗聞其謀。 When the kings of Huainan and Hengshan were plotting rebellion, Jian had caught wind of their conspiracy.