Qin and Han · General

Peng Yue

Died BC 197

Passages
113
Chapters
15
Histories
6

Overview

The translated histories identify Peng Yue as a bandit, general, named individual, and official. This record brings together 113 passages from 15 chapters across 6 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Peng Yue Peng Yue
Personal
Title Chancellor of Wei 魏相國 Wei Xiangguo
Title Chancellor of Wei 魏相國
Title Chancellor Peng 彭相國
Title General Peng 彭將軍
Title King of Liang 梁王 Liang Wang
Title King of Liang 梁王
Title King of Liang 梁王 Liáng Wáng
Title King Peng 彭王
Title King Peng Yue 梁王彭越
Title Marquis of Jiancheng 建城侯 Jiancheng Hou
Surname Peng Péng
Title Peng King 彭王 Péng Wáng
Personal name Peng Yue 彭越 Peng Yue
Personal Peng Yue 彭越 Péng Yuè
Personal Peng Yue 彭越 Peng Yue
Personal name Peng Yue 彭越 Péng Yuè
Personal name Peng Yue
Given Yue Yuè
Courtesy Zhong Zhòng

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Bandit
  • General
  • Named Individual
  • Official
  • Rebel
  • Ruler
  • Warlord

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: clan extermination · Authority Person Id: Emperor Gaozu (高祖) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十年秋 · Western Year: BC 197
  • Manner: executed and minced · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十一年夏 · Western Year: BC 196
    Explicit · shiji:091:s0101
  • Manner: executed and head displayed · Place: Luoyang / 雒陽 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 梟彭越頭 · Western Year: BC 196
    Explicit · shiji:100:s0082
  • Manner: execution · Place: Luoyang / 雒陽 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢召彭越責以謀反 · Western Year: BC 196
    Explicit · hanshu:046:s0069
  • Text: 夷三族 · Date Text: 十一年三月
    Explicit · hanshu:002:s0260

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: (五年)項籍已死。春,立彭越為梁王 · Western Year: BC 202
  • Source Date: Text: 今年殺彭越 · Western Year: BC 196
    Explicit · nanqishu:036:s0046
  • Source Date: Text: 十一年夏 · Western Year: BC 196
    Explicit · shiji:091:s0101
  • Source Date: Text: 十年秋 · Western Year: BC 197
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0084
  • Source Date: Text: 彭越…夷三族 · Western Interval: Start: BC 206 · End: BC 196
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:046:s0063, hanshu:046:s0069
  • Source Date: Text: 彭越就誅 · Western Year: BC 196
    Explicit · chenshu:032:s0132
  • Source Date: Text: 歸彭越 · Western Interval: Start: BC 204 · End: BC 202
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:094:s0063, shiji:094:s0067
  • Source Date: Text: 漢五年秋 · Western Year: BC 202
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0065
  • Source Date: Text: 漢元年秋 · Western Year: BC 206
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0054
  • Source Date: Text: 漢初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 206 · End: AD 196
    Explicit · suishu:052:s0211
  • Source Date: Text: 漢召彭越 · Western Year: BC 196
    Explicit · shiji:100:s0081
  • Source Date: Text: 漢四年 · Western Year: BC 203
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:051:s0004
  • Source Date: Text: 漢四年冬 · Western Year: BC 203
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0062
  • Source Date: Text: 漢王三年 · Western Year: BC 204
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0061
  • Source Date: Text: 漢王二年春 · Western Year: BC 205
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0056
  • Source Date: Text: 漢興之初 · Western Year: BC 196
  • Source Date: Text: 為家人時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 210 · End: BC 202
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:100:s0074
  • Source Date: Text: 陳勝、項梁之起…遂夷越宗族 · Western Interval: Start: BC 209 · End: BC 197
    Explicit event contextual date · shiji:090:s0034, shiji:090:s0103
  • Source Date: Text: 韋、彭、伊、霍 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 559
    Explicit · beiqishu:048:s0043

Career and standing

  • Label: bandit leader / outlaw / 群盜
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0033
  • Label: bandit / 盜
    Explicit · shiji:100:s0076
  • Label: general / 將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢元年秋 · Western Year: BC 206
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0054
  • Label: Chancellor of Wei / 魏相國 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢王二年春 · Western Year: BC 205
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0059
  • Text: 魏相國
    Explicit · hanshu:002:s0001
  • Text: King of Liang / 梁王
    Explicit · hanshu:042:s0095
  • Text: 梁王,都定陶
    Explicit · hanshu:002:s0032
  • Title: King of Liang / 梁王 · Action: held
  • Title: King of Liang / 梁王 · Action: installed
    Explicit · shiji:094:s0067
  • Text: 建城侯
    Explicit · hanshu:002:s0032
  • Status: exile · Action: banished · Place: Qingyi in Shu / 蜀青衣 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十年秋 · Western Year: BC 197
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0095
  • Status: commoner · Action: held
    Explicit · shiji:100:s0074
  • Status: commoner · Action: reduced-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十年秋 · Western Year: BC 197
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0095
  • Label: charged with treason and executed / 謀反夷三族 · Action: executed · Authority Person Id: Emperor Gaozu (高祖)
    Explicit · hanshu:046:s0069
  • Label: extermination of the clan / 族 · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Emperor Gaozu (高祖) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十年秋 · Western Year: BC 197
  • Label: extermination of three clans / 夷三族 · Action: suffered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢召彭越 · Western Year: BC 196
    Explicit · shiji:100:s0081
  • Status: execution · Action: suffered · Label: extermination of three clans / complete five punishments / 夷三族/具五刑 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢興之初 · Western Year: BC 196
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:025:s0308, hanshu:025:s0311, hanshu:025:s0312
  • Title: King of Liang / 梁王 · Place: Dingtao / 定陶 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年…春 · Western Year: BC 202
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0081

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

  • Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Extent Unit Ids: s0035 · Provenance: Mode: speech · Speaker Person Id: Peng Yue (彭)
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0035
  • Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Extent Unit Ids: s0067 · Provenance: Mode: speech · Speaker Person Id: Peng Yue (彭)
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0067

Events and relationships

  • Kind: military · Role: ally · Action: afflicted-Chu-with-Han · Other Person Id: Emperor Gaozu (高祖)
  • Kind: military · Role: ally · Action: assisted · Other Person Id: Emperor Gaozu (高祖) · Place: Changyi / 昌邑
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0050
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: captured-cities · Place: Suiyang and Waihuang / 睢陽、外黃 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢四年冬 · Western Year: BC 203
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0062
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Jiao, Lord of Xiao (蕭公角) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢元年秋 · Western Year: BC 206
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0055
  • Kind: ritual · Role: leader · Action: executed-latecomer-and-sacrificed
  • Kind: legal · Role: victim · Action: executed · Label: received the complete five punishments / 受具五刑之誅 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢興之初 · Western Year: BC 196
    Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:025:s0312
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: joined-battle · Place: Gaixia / 垓下 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: BC 202
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0079
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: raided-supply-lines · Place: Liang / 梁地 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢王三年 · Western Year: BC 204
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0061
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: submitted-to · Other Person Id: Emperor Gaozu (高祖) · Place: Waihuang / 外黃 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢王二年春 · Western Year: BC 205
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0056

Assessments and attributes

  • Item: general's seal / 將軍印 · Relation: bestowed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 漢元年秋 · Western Year: BC 206
    Explicit · shiji:090:s0054

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 48Volume 48 Biographies 40: Imperial Affines · 1 passage
Book of Chen, Chapter 32Volume 32: Filial Piety · 1 passage
Book of Han, Chapter 1Volume 1: Annals of Emperor Gaozu 1 · 15 passages
漢王聽其計,使盧綰、劉賈將卒二萬人,騎數百,渡白馬津入楚地,佐彭越燒楚積聚,復擊破楚軍燕郭西,攻下睢陽、外黃十七城。 The King of Han followed his plan, sending Lu Wan and Liu Jia with twenty thousand soldiers and several hundred riders across Baima Ford into Chu territory. They assisted Peng Yue in burning Chu's stockpiles, then attacked and defeated the Chu army west of Yanguo, capturing seventeen cities, including Suiyang and Waihuang.
Book of Han, Chapter 2Volume 1: Annals of Emperor Gaozu 2 · 9 passages
於是諸侯上疏曰:「楚王韓信、韓王信、淮南王英布、梁王彭越、故衡山王吳芮、趙王張敖、燕王臧荼昧 死再拜言,大王陛下:先時秦為亡道,天下誅之。 So the feudal lords submitted a memorial: "Han Xin, King of Chu; Xin, King of Han; Ying Bu, King of Huainan; Peng Yue, King of Liang; Wu Rui, former King of Hengshan; Zhang Ao, King of Zhao; and Zang Tu, King of Yan, risking death, bow twice and say: Great King, Your Majesty, formerly Qin acted without the Way, and the world punished it.
Book of Han, Chapter 25Volume 23: Treatise on Punishment and Law · 1 passage
Book of Han, Chapter 42Volume 33: Wei Bao, Tian Dan and Hán Xin (King of Han) · 3 passages
Book of Han, Chapter 44Volume 35: Princes of Jing, Yan and Wu · 1 passage
Book of Han, Chapter 46Volume 37: Ji Bu, Luan Bu and Tian Shu · 12 passages
Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 36Volume 36 Biographies 17: Xie Chaozong, Liu Xiang · 1 passage
Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 51Houses of Jing and Yan · 1 passage
Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 90Biographies of Wei Bao and Peng Yue · 46 passages
Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 91Biography of Qing Bu · 3 passages
Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 94Biography of Tian Dan, King of Qi · 3 passages
Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 100Biographies of Ji Bu and Luan Bu · 15 passages
Book of Sui, Chapter 52Volume 52 Biographies 17: Han Qinhu, He Ruobi · 1 passage