Qin and Han · Royal Family Member

Elder Princess 長公主

Attested BC 157 - BC 141

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Elder Princess was a Royal Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 157 to BC 141 景帝
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 125, passages 31, 34

Events and relationships

Gave gifts later confiscated
Personal · Benefactor · With Deng Tong (鄧通)
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 125, passage 34
Lent clothes and food
Personal · Benefactor · With Deng Tong (鄧通)
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 125, passage 35

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 125Biographies of Flatterers · 2 passages

長公主賜鄧通，吏輒隨沒入之，一簪不得著身。 Whenever the Elder Princess sent gifts to Deng Tong, officials would swoop in at once to confiscate them. He was not allowed to keep so much as a hairpin.

於是長公主乃令假衣食。 In the end, the Elder Princess could only arrange to lend him clothes and food.