Li Wen (李文) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Wen as an official. This record brings together 4 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Li Wen	李文	Lǐ Wén
Given	Wen	文	Wén

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · hanshu:069:s0066

Roles

Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution
Explicit · hanshu:069:s0067

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 河東人李文 · Western Year: BC 116
Explicit · hanshu:069:s0066

Career and standing

Office: vice director of the imperial secretariat / 御史中丞
Explicit · hanshu:069:s0066

Places and affiliations

Place: Hedong / 河東
Explicit · hanshu:069:s0066

Events and relationships

Kind: death · Role: subject · Action: executed · Other Person Id: Zhang Tang (張湯)
Explicit · hanshu:069:s0067

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 69Volume 59: Zhang Tang · 4 passages

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河東人李文，故嘗與湯有隙，已而為御史中丞，薦數從中文事有可以傷湯者，不能為地。 Li Wen of Hedong had long been Tang's enemy. When Wen became vice director of the imperial secretariat, he combed the palace files for anything that might incriminate Tang and showed him no quarter.

湯有所愛史魯謁居，知湯弗平，使人上飛變告文奸事，事下湯，湯治論殺文，而湯心知謁居為之。 Tang kept a favorite clerk, Lu Yéju, who saw how Tang brooded on the grudge. Yéju arranged for a sealed denunciation accusing Wen of misconduct; when the case landed in Tang's hands, he tried Wen and had him executed, all the while knowing Yéju was the author of the charge.

湯陽驚曰：「此殆文故人怨之。」 Tang put on a show of surprise. "Probably one of Wen's old acquaintances with a grudge against him," he said.

謁居弟不知而怨湯，使人上書，告湯與謁居謀，共變李文。 The brother did not understand and blamed Tang; he had someone memorialize that Tang and Yéju had conspired to frame Li Wen.