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  Han Wendi and the 'zhu jiu zu (诛九族)' punishment - China History Forum, Chinese History ...
Han Wendi was now moved by Chunyu Tiying's letter and issued an edict: "I have heard that in the ancient past the Sage-Kings Yu and Shun merely had to make criminals wear clothes of a different style or colour, or with a special pattern on them, to indicate that they were being punished.
Han Wendi's son and successor Han Jingdi had to further reform the punishments by reducing the 500 strokes used to replace the cutting off of toes on the left foot, to 200 strokes.
Han Jingdi also had to stipulate the length, thickness, weight and shape of the bamboo rod used, and rule that the man wielding the rod could not be changed halfway during the conduct of the punishment.
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  Emperor Wen of Han - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emperor Wen of Han (202 BC–157 BC) was an emperor of the Han Dynasty in China.
Liu Heng was a son of Emperor Gao of Han and Consort Bo, later empress dowager.
After Empress Dowager Lü's death, the officials eliminated the powerful Lü clan, and deliberately chose the Prince of Dai as the emperor, since his mother, Consort Bo, had no powerful relatives, and her family was known for its humility and thoughtfulness.
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 Sui Dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buddhism was popular during the Six Dynasties period that preceded the Sui dynasty, spreading from India through Kushan Afghanistan into China during the Late Han period.
The Sui Dynasty began when Wendi entered a marriage alliance with the daughter of a ruler of the northern Zhou empire.
Sensing power, Wendi took the throne by force and claimed himself to be emperor.
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 Hundproblem - Dog Conference
Så var det då Jeppes tur och vilken skola han representerar behöver jag väl knappast gå in på.
Han tryckte på skillnaderna i beteende hos varg och hund.
Han framhöll det idiotiska i att korsa in vargar i våra hundar till varghybrider då dessa uppvisar beteenden om inte alls passar hos ett sällskapsdjur.
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 2. The Han Dynasty - All Empires
Han Gaozu ruled for less than a decade, and his main contributions were to consolidate the dynasty.
Culturally and scientifically the Eastern Han exceeded the achievements of the Western Han.
From the middle of the Eastern Han era onwards, the dynasty began to decline.
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 huns han dynasty
Han Emperor Liu Bang led 300,000 army to attack the Huns in 200 BC.
Han Dynasty was busy fighting two Yue statelets in the south, while Huns refrained from attacking the border in the north.
Han princess was married over to Wusun king as a means of diffusing Hunnic support in the west.
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 China to the Fall of the Han Dynasty
With the monarchical system of government, Han rule was on a long range course toward disaster, but the short term was served by Wendi being an able ruler, a ruler known for his regard for the interests of his subjects.
All Han emperors since Mingdi had become emperors when adolescents, two of them as young as two, and most had begun their rule with their dowager empress mother serving as regent.
In attempting to defend itself, the Han palace conscripted great numbers, establishing huge armies at a great economic cost, and although the Han armies were weakened by inefficiency and corruption, the Yellow Turbans were no match for them.
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 Emperor Wen of Han:
Emperor Wen of Han (202 BC–157 BC) was an emperor of the Han Dynasty in China.
Liu Heng was a son of Emperor Gao of Han and Consort Bo, later empress dowager.
After Empress Dowager Lü's death, the officials eliminated the powerful Lü clan, and deliberately chose the Prince of Dai as the emperor, since his mother, Consort Bo, had no powerful relatives, and her family was known for its humility and thoughtfulness.
pandapedia.com /wiki/Emperor_Wen_of_Han   (2319 words)

  
 Wendi - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Wendi, also Wen-ti (541-601), Chinese emperor who founded the Sui dynasty and reunified China, ending the period of division known as the...
The Northern and Southern dynasties period was brought to an end by Yang Jian, a high-ranking figure in the Northern Zhou dynasty who seized the...
The dynasty was founded in 581 by Yang Jian (later Emperor Wendi), a general under the Northern Zhou dynasty of the Northern and Southern dynasties...
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 Han Dynasty -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
Han Dynasty's notable deeds would be the restoration of Confucianism as the creed for ruling the nation.
Han Dynasty possessed the typical characteristics as far as the pattern of power corruption was concerned.
A Han emissary, Su Wu, was detained and sent to Lake Bajkal to be a shepherd for 19 years, only to be returned after Huo Guang (General Ho Chu-ping's brother) requested for Su with the Hunnic king who had initially cheated Huo in saying that Su was long dead.
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 Chinese clothing, Chinese dress, Arts and crafts..: Gorgeous Dress and Accessories in the Qin and Han Dynasties
According to historical records, while Emperor Wendi of the Han Dynasty was on the throne (179 - 156 B.C.), in noble families even the servants wore expensive jewelry.
The blouse reached to the waist and usually was worn with a hemless skirt made of four pieces of plain silk, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, with two strings sewn to both ends of the silk top.
To facilitate their work, ordinary men wore tight cotton jackets with narrow cuffs, a plain gauze robe unearthed from the No.1 Han Tomb at Mawangdui in Changsha, Hunan Province, was discovered to be "as thin and delicate as a cicada's wing and as light as smoke and fog," weighing less than 50 grams.
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 Confucianism vs Legalism - Chinese-forums.com
Han Fei was more moderate than Li Si, who as Qin Shi Huang's prime minister forced Han to drink poison out of jealousy.
Han rule was authoritative, but lacking of the severity of the preceding Qin dynasty.
For example, the great Han historian Sima Qian was given the option of either execution or castration by Wudi because he spoke out in defense of a general who defected to the Xiongnu.
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 The Decline of the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire
The Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire were two of the most powerful entities to rule their respective parts of the world.
The Han Dynasty’s later years were filled with internal conflict, as court officials battled with the emperor and the Taoists.
The Han Dynasty’s glorious reign formally came to an end in 220 A.D. Both the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire were powerful and impressive.
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 The Fall of Western Han - China History Forum, Chinese History Forum
Emperor Wudi's reign had caused strife in the Han dynasty due to his massive military conquests, and officially he was said to empty the treasury to such an extent that the Han declined from then on.
Before Han Wudi passed away, he created his youngest son the heir, and executed his birth mother, so that his son won’t have to be under her control.
The Revolts of the Seven Kingdoms was not entirely the fault of Han Wendi and Han Jingdi, nor was it the fault of Han Gaozu.
www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=13826   (2873 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Han dynasty, which he proclaimed in 202 B.C.E., proved a far more lasting regime than the one it replaced, surviving in its basic form for nearly four centuries until swept away by rebellion and mutiny in a series of upheavals that began in 184.
Although extremely powerful for a few centuries, neither Han nor Rome proved immune to eventual de cay Internal conflicts and divisions strained their administrative structures to the breaking point, and as central authority ebbed, their empires fragmented in the face of rebel lions and invasions.
The Han collapsed first following a generation of court intrigues and coups in the second half of the second century that allowed imperial power to drift away from reigning emperors into the hands of palace eunuchs who lacked any claim to virtue or legitimacy.
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 Chinese History - Han Dynasty æ¼¢ (www.chinaknowledge.de)
Wang Mang 王莽 tried to replace the Han Dynasty but his reforms to shape an ideal Confucian government failed, and the Han Dynasty was restored as Eastern Han.
The Eastern Han, much more than Western Han, suffered under the intervention of consort clans (waiqi 夗戚) and eunuch (huanguan 宦官) factions into the inner power circle of the empire.
The fundaments of both of the Wang Mang and Eastern Han administration were shaken by large peasant uprisings with religious backgrounds (Red Eyebrows 赤眉, Yellow Turbans 黃巾, Five-Pecks-of-Grain Sect 五旗米道), the helm of government of Eastern Han was taken over my mighty warlords that should divide the Han empire into three "kingdoms" (Sanguo 三國).
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 The story of Lee Guang 龍城飛將
The emperor, Han Wendi (漢文帝), lamented that Lee Guang wasn't living at the time of Liu Pang (劉邦) because with his abilities he would've easily become a feudal lord of an area with ten thousand households (萬戶侯).
According to the Han Dynasty law Guang was held accountable for the heavy lost and his brief POW status.
Rather than allowing himself to be humiliated again by the unfair Han regulation and petty bureaucrats, he drew his sword and committed suicide.
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 Vietnamese - Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China -- Research Into Origins Of Huns, Uygurs, ...
In 135 BC, Han emissary, Tang Meng, was dispatched to Yelang Statelet, and noted that Nan-Yue or Southern Yue was using soy sauce from Sichuan Province.
Han Emperor Wudi, in 105 BC, established, along Bonan-dao Path, four counties of Yunnan-xian (Xiangyun), Xianlong-xian (Weishan), Yeyu-xian (Dali), and Bisu-xian (Yunlong), and two more counties of Buwei-xian and Suitang-xian to the south of Bonan Mountain.
At the beginning of Later Han imperial authority was confirmed by the campaigns of Ma Yuan against the rebellion led by the Zheng (or Trung) sisters in the region of the Red River between 40 and 43 AD.
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 China History Forum, online chinese history forum -> WANG MANG
In the end, different members of the Han imperial clan were also fighting one another for the right to be the man who restores the Han dynasty.
Han wudi was never referred that way while he was alive and nor did any other emperor in Chinese history starting from the Han........
Similarly, all the other "Han" emperors who competed with Liu Xiu, like Liu Penzi and Liu Yong, were not recognised by the Eastern Han as being of the Han, even if they were members of the imperial clan.
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 Chinese era name - China-related Topics CE-CH - China-Related Topics
Emperor Wu of Han China (Han Wudi) was conventionally regarded as the first emperor to declare an era name; however he was only the first to use an era name in every year of his reign.
Han Wudi changed period titles every five years or so, going through a total of eleven reigning slogans during his reign from 140 BC to 87 BC.
Thus 344 AD was the second year of Jianyuan of the Jin Dynasty (or of Jin Kangdi) whereas 139 BC was the second year of Jianyuan of the Han Dynasty (or of Han Wudi).
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 Emperor Table of Han Dynasty, Emperors in Han Dynasty, Han Dynasty
The Western Han Dynasty was in its most powerful period during the reign of the Han Wudi.
The youngest son of Han Wudi; He lightened the burden of the peasants and was on good terms with Xiongnu (Hun).
Nephew of Han Chengdi; Although all kinds of social contradictions were sharp, he only believed in ghosts and gods to solve all the problems with the result that Wang Mang stole power.
www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/history/han/han-dynasty-emperors.htm   (708 words)

  
 Xiao 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
During the Western Han Dynasty in China, after its founding patriarch Liu Bang died, the throne came by succession to his son, "Liu the Constant".
Once the matron suffered a serious illness and Han Wendi, as soon as he had completed the various governmental matters, would immediately leave the state chambers and return to his mother's bedside to nurse her with tender concern.
The Learned Emperor's name, Han Wendi, has passed down through a thousand ages to the present--people still admire his model of virtuous, selfless conduct.
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 Chinese History - Three Kingdoms 三國, Jin 晉, Southern and Northern Dynasties 南北朝 ...
The orthodox Confucianism of the Han Dynasty that was only able to comment the old canonical books and to produce a sterile officialdom, was thoroughly discredited by the end of Later Han.
While Confucianism has seen its highlight during the course of Han Dynasty, there had always been different schools and philosophies that had a mere metaphysical worldview than the society-centered teachings of the Confucians.
Now, in a time of political, social and economic instability, intellectuals were interested in the search of an integral view of the universe, and the hence neglected Daoist classics like Laozi and Zhuangzi just met their needs.
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 Chinese Warfare - www.ezboard.com
Liu Bang (206/02-195 BC), king of Han, succeeded in destroying one by one and finally established the Han Dynasty with its capital at Chang'an (today Xi'an) in 202 BC.
Emperor Han Wendi (179-157 BC) abolished the harsh laws of the Qin time like mutilation and clan responsibility that were still in use, and he lowered taxes.
Succession struggles that had overshadowed the rule of the "Martial" Han Wudi (140-87 BC) Emperor were now followed by intrigues of consorts and their families.
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 Former Han Legal Philosophy notes
Han Feizi, "Wu Du," Chen Qiyou, Han Feizi jishi [Taipei: He-Luo Tushu Chubanshe, 1974]: 1057).
There is not a trace of them in the famous memorials submitted to Han Wudi, and what is more, even in the "Treatise on the Five Forces," devoted to setting out their interrelationships, nothing of the kind is to be discovered (ibid: 25-26).
69) He served under Han Wendi, and was famed for flatly refusing the emperor's demand that a man who had accidentally frightened the emperor's horses should be more heavily punished than the fine allowed for in the law.
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 Chinese Han Dynasty
Han Dynasty ~ 206 BC - 220 AD Major Advancement:
The Western Han dynasty was defeated and the capital was moved east to Luoyang.
Thus the change in name to the Eastern Han Dynasty.
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 Hun & Huns -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China -- Research Into Origins Of Huns, Uygurs, ...
As to the so-called Western Huns, they, in the second half of the 4th Century, attacked the Alans between the Volga and the Don Rivers, went on to conquer the Ostrogoths and drive the Visigoths westwards, triggering the chain reaction that led to the demise of the Roman Empire.
Both Sima Qian's "Shi Ji" and Ban Gu's "Han Shu" said that the Huns were the descendants of Xiahou-shi (i.e., Xia descendant); that they migrated to the Western Rong areas during the demise years of Xia Dynasty; and that they would attack the ancestors of Zhou founder in a place called 'Bin'.
Ban Gu, in his History Of Han Dynasty, said that the Rongdi nomads were inter-spersed in the land north of the Jing River and the Wei Rivers, that Qin Emperor Shihuangdi drove them out, and that Qin China went as far west as Lintao (Tao being the Tao River in today's Gansu Province).
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