Qin and Han · Ruler

King of Lu 魯王

Attested BC 157 - BC 141

Passages: 13
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

The translated histories identify King of Lu as a ruler. This record brings together 13 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	King of Lu	魯王	King of Lu
Title	King of Lu	魯王
Title	King of Lu	魯王	Lu Wang
Title	the king	王

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Title only
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · hanshu:046:s0130
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · shiji:104:s0049

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 以為魯相…魯王 · Western Interval: Start: BC 157 · End: BC 141
Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:046:s0126, hanshu:046:s0130
Source Date: Text: 以為魯相 · Western Interval: Start: BC 157 · End: BC 141
Explicit event contextual date · shiji:104:s0048, shiji:104:s0049

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: accused · Action: accused by people of seizing property
Explicit · shiji:104:s0049
Kind: personal · Role: actor · Action: repaid the people in full and curtailed hunting
Explicit · shiji:104:s0055, shiji:104:s0058
Kind: restitution · Role: wrongdoer-repaying · Action: repaid-seized-property
Explicit · hanshu:046:s0130

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 46Volume 37: Ji Bu, Luan Bu and Tian Shu · 5 passages

相初至官，民以王取其財物自言者百餘人。 Soon after the new chancellor took office, more than a hundred people came forward claiming the king had seized their property.

叔取其渠率二千人笞，怒之曰：「王非汝主邪？ Tian Shu seized their ringleaders and had two thousand men flogged, shouting, "Is the king not your sovereign?

魯王聞之，大慚，發中府錢，使相償之。 The king of Lu was mortified; he drew funds from the inner treasury and told the chancellor to make restitution.

魯王好獵，相常從入苑中，王輒休相就館。 The king of Lu loved the chase; the chancellor always accompanied him into the royal park, whereupon the king would send him off to the lodge to rest.

王以故不大出遊。 After that the king rarely went out on long hunting trips.

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 104Biography of Tian Shu · 8 passages

魯相初到，民自言相，訟王取其財物百餘人。 When Tian Shu first arrived in Lu as chancellor, more than a hundred of the common people came forward on their own to bring suit, accusing the king of seizing their property.

田叔取其渠率二十人，各笞五十，餘各搏二十，怒之曰：「王非若主邪？ Tian Shu seized twenty of the ringleaders and had each given fifty strokes of the bamboo rod. The rest he had struck twenty times apiece. He rebuked them furiously: "Is the king not your sovereign lord?

魯王聞之大慚，發中府錢，使相償之。 When the King of Lu heard of this, he was deeply ashamed. He opened the inner treasury and ordered the chancellor to use the funds to compensate the people.

相曰：「王自奪之，使相償之，是王為惡而相為善也。 The chancellor said: "Your Majesty seized these goods yourself, yet now you order the chancellor to make restitution. This would make the king appear the villain and the chancellor the virtuous one.

於是王乃盡償之。 And so the king himself repaid every one of them in full.

魯王好獵，相常從入苑中，王輒休相就館舍，相出，常暴坐待王苑外。 The King of Lu was fond of hunting. The chancellor would regularly accompany him into the royal hunting park, but each time the king would dismiss him to rest at the guest quarters. Instead, the chancellor would go outside and sit exposed to the elements, waiting for the king beyond the park walls.

王數使人請相休，終不休，曰：「我王暴露苑中，我獨何為就舍！」 The king sent messengers several times urging the chancellor to go inside and rest, but Tian Shu refused every time, saying: "While my king endures the elements out in the park, why should I alone seek the comfort of a roof!"

魯王以故不大出游。 Because of this, the King of Lu greatly curtailed his hunting excursions.