Overview
Liu Hongdu was a prince.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Other names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|
| Changed name |
Bin |
玢 |
Bin |
| Childhood name |
Shou |
壽 |
Shou |
Life and dates
Attested activity
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
Career and standing
Prince of Qin 秦王
AD 932 五年 · Enfeoffed
succeeded Yan as emperor
Places and affiliations
- Polity Southern Han 漢 · Relation Ruled
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment unable to manage state affairs; debauched during father's funeral · Mode historian-judgment
Source notes
- From Hongdu 洪度 · To Bin 玢
References in the histories
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 65Volume 65: Hereditary House of Southern Han · 12 passages
五年，封子耀樞邕王，龜圖康王，洪度秦王，洪熙晉王，洪昌越王，洪弼齊王，洪雅韶王，洪澤鎮王，洪操萬王，洪杲循王，洪暐息王，洪邈高王，洪簡同王，洪建益王，洪濟辨王，洪道貴王，洪昭宣王，洪政通王，洪益定王。
In the fifth year he enfeoffed his sons: Yaoshu as Prince of Yong, Guitu as Prince of Kang, Hongdu as Prince of Qin, Hongxi as Prince of Jin, Hongchang as Prince of Yue, Hongbi as Prince of Qi, Hongya as Prince of Shao, Hongze as Prince of Zhen, Hongcao as Prince of Wan, Honggao as Prince of Xun, Hongwei as Prince of Xi, Hongmiao as Prince of Gao, Hong Jian as Prince of Tong, Hong Jian as Prince of Yi, Hongji as Prince of Bian, Hongdao as Prince of Gui, Hongzhao as Prince of Xuan, Hongzheng as Prince of Tong, and Hongyi as Prince of Ding.
子玢立。
His son Bin succeeded him.
玢，初名洪度，封秦王。
Bin, whose original name was Hongdu, had been enfeoffed as Prince of Qin.
龑子耀樞、龜圖皆早死，玢次當立。
Yan’s sons Yaoshu and Guitu had both died young; Bin was next in line to succeed.
龑病臥寢中，召右僕射王翻與語，呼洪度、洪熙小字曰：「壽、俊雖長，然皆不足任吾事，惟洪昌類我，吾欲立之。
Yan lay ill in his chamber and summoned Right Vice Director Wang Fan to speak with him. Calling Hongdu and Hongxi by their childhood names, he said, "Shou and Jun are older, yet neither is fit to bear my affairs — only Hongchang is like me, and I wish to make him heir.
翻為龑謀，出洪度以邕州，洪熙容州，然後立洪昌為太子。
Fan devised a plan for Yan: send Hongdu out to Yongzhou and Hongxi to Rongzhou, then establish Hongchang as heir apparent.
由是洪度卒得立。
Because of this, Hongdu at last succeeded to the throne.
更名玢，改元曰光天，尊母趙昭儀為皇太妃，以晉王洪熙輔政。
He changed his name to Bin, altered the era name to Guangtian, honored his mother Lady Zhao Zhaoyi as Grand Imperial Consort, and made Prince of Jin Hongxi regent.
玢立，果不能任事。
Once Bin took the throne, he proved unable to manage state affairs.
龑在殯，召伶人作樂，飲酒宮中，裸男女以為樂，或衣墨缞與倡女夜行，出入民家。
While Yan still lay in state, Bin summoned entertainers, drank in the palace, amused himself with naked men and women, and sometimes dressed in black mourning garb and went out at night with singing girls, entering and leaving commoners’ homes.
玢遣越王洪昌、循王洪杲攻之，遇賢圍洪昌等於錢帛館，裨將萬景忻、陳道庠力戰，挾二王潰圍而走。
Bin sent Prince of Yue Hongchang and Prince of Xun Honggao against him. Yuxian surrounded them at the Qianbo Lodge; lieutenant generals Wan Jingxin and Chen Daoxiang fought fiercely, shielded the two princes, and broke out of the encirclement.
玢莫能省，嶺東皆亂。
Bin could not grasp the situation, and all east of the ranges fell into disorder.