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Why was Emperor Wen of Han's wife not posthumously honored?

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When Liu Heng was the queen of the daiwang, there was no record of his surname, no cemetery, and no posthumous title. Liu Heng died before he ascended the throne of Chang'an, and within two months of his claim to the throne, all four sons born to the queen died of illness (three sons are recorded in the Records of The Chronicle of Filial Piety)

Liu Heng also had two childless concubines: Lady Shen and Yin Ji. Lady Shen was still recorded in the "Records of History" enough, and Yin Ji only had one sentence: "Emperor Wen was fortunate to have Lady Shen of Handan and Lady Yin Ji, and neither of them had sons." Only half a sentence records Yin Ji, sima Qiandu recorded her surname Yin.

Why was Emperor Wen of Han's wife not posthumously honored?

It should be known that Sima Qian was born in 145 BC, only 35 years after Emperor Wen of Han succeeded to the throne. Even the details of the Hongmen Banquet Sima Qian could learn by asking Fan Duo's grandson Fan Heguang how Sima Qian, the surname of the Acting Queen, could not be inquired about, and he was worried about what he did not write. (Because the Feast of the Hongmen Had a major influence on the course of history, the Queen Dai was an insignificant figure.) )

During Lü Hou's reign, in order to win over and control the princes surnamed Liu, he liked to engage Liu Lü in cooperation. Lü Hou married Lü Zi's daughter to Liu Ze the Marquis of Yingling (later the Prince of Langya), Lü Chan's daughter to Liu Hui the Prince of Zhao, and Lü Lu's daughter to Liu Zhang, the Marquis of Zhuxu, and Liu You, the Prince of Zhao, also took Zhu Lü's daughter as her queen, and the empress of the Young Emperor Liu Hong was also Lü Lu's daughter. So much so that the Qing Dynasty historian Zhao Yi said, "Lü Shi has a daughter, not to him, but to liu." (There is no evidence that the concubines of Liu Fei the Prince of Qi, Liu Heng the Acting King, and Liu Chang the Prince of Huainan are lü's daughters.) )

The princes of the Western Han Dynasty must write to the central government of the Han Dynasty, obtain the approval of the central government, and accept the canonization of the central government. When Zhao Infant Qi Qi entered The Guard of Su Wei in Chang'an, he took the daughter of the Fan clan of Handan and gave birth to a son Xing. And on the throne, the letter asked the daughter of the Li clan to be the queen, and xing was the heir. South Vietnam was a foreign minister of the Han Dynasty, and the foreign ministers were the foreign princes, and the foreign princes were those frontier national regimes that were nominally subordinate to the Han Dynasty and were actually independent in internal affairs. However, even the princes who established the queen and the crown prince needed to write to the central government of the Han Dynasty and obtain the approval of the central government. Dai Guo was the inner prince of the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty controlled it far more than the foreign princes such as Nanyue. By analogy, the acting prince Liu Hengzhi should also write to the central government of the Han Dynasty and obtain the approval of the central government. In June, the left general of the Shaofu Dynasty gave the imperial mother The Seal of Zhongshan Xiaowang and worshipped him as The Queen of Zhongshan. (Book of Han and Records of the Ping Emperor) shows that the canonization of the princes and queens of the Han Dynasty required the canonization of the central government. After Liu Bang's death, although Emperor Hui of Han inherited the throne, he was not a complete puppet and his real power was limited. Because the three pillars of the Han Dynasty ruling clique, the Liu surname Zongwang Clique, the Lü Foreign Relatives Clique, and the Meritorious Servant Clique with the Fengpei Clique as the core, were not something that Emperor Hui of Han could control and control. Therefore, the real power of the central government was in the hands of Empress Lü. In other words, the acting king made the queen crown prince, which had to be approved by Empress Lü.

Who is the name of the queen, where the person's clan, when she died, and where she was buried, are not recorded in the history books. You must know that the original match of King Dingtao Gong, the concubine of the Han Emperor, the surname left in the history books, and what relationship with Empress Fu were clearly written. The original match of King Xiao of Zhongshan, the concubine of the Hanping Emperor, also left his name in the history books. And whose daughter it was written clearly. However, this acting queen could not leave any information at all, and it should be known that she was also one of the three sects of the Western Han Dynasty, the original match of Liu Heng of the Han Taizong. Is Liu Heng's position in the history of the Han Dynasty inferior to that of King Xiao of Zhongshan and King Gong of Dingtao, and the history books seem to be hiding something. (The original match of King Dingtao Gong, the original mother of Emperor Han Ai, the original match of King Xiao of Zhongshan, and the mother of Emperor Ping of Han all left their surnames, because their sons inherited the throne, and their mother relied on her son.) However, several sons of the Queen Dai had died of illness long ago, so naturally there was no need to record the surname of the Dai Queen.

Why was Emperor Wen of Han's wife not posthumously honored?

Liu Heng and the Queen Daiwang were married and gave birth to 3 or 4 sons together, and it is reasonable to say that the relationship should be good. Why did Emperor Wen of Han not posthumously posthumously seal his wife? Liu Bang posthumously honored his eldest brother Liu Bo as the Marquis of Wu'ai, and his mother as Lady Zhaoling. During Lü Hou's reign, he posthumously honored Liu Bo as the King of Wu'ai, Lady Zhaoling as Empress Zhaoling, and Liu Bang's sister Lady Xuan as Empress Zhao'ai. After Emperor Wen of Han ascended the throne, he also posthumously honored his maternal grandfather and mother as Marquis of Lingwen and Lady Lingwen. Empress Bo also posthumously honored Empress Dou's parents as Marquis Xuancheng and Lady Xuancheng. After Emperor Xuan of Han ascended the throne, he posthumously honored his great-grandmother Wei Zifu as Empress Si, his grandfather Liu Zhao as the Crown Prince of Jiao, his grandmother Shi Liangdi as Empress Dowager, his father Liu Jin as Empress Dowager, and his mother Wang Wengsu as Empress Dowager. (The pursuit of honor listed above are all posthumously honored by the younger generations to honor their deceased brothers and sisters and elders, and there is no posthumous honor and wife, so it is normal for Liu Heng not to pursue his wife.) )

Taiwan Provincial scholar Zheng Xiaoshi (associate researcher of the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Academia Sinica) argued in the article "The Process and Historical Significance of the Coup d'état of Lü Anliu in the Early Han Dynasty" that the acting queen and her sons should not have died normally. He believes that the empress dowager is likely to be the daughter of the Lü family, who was killed in the Coup d'état of The Lü Dynasty. The sons born to the Daiwang Queen were killed because they had the blood of the Lü family and could not be made crown prince. However, he believed that this should not be Emperor Wen's idea, but Chen Pingren's decision.

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