Qin and Han · Named Individual

Han Fan 犴反

Attested BC 128 - BC 123

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Han Fan was a Named Individual.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 128 to BC 123 元朔中
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 56, passage 102

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Father of Han Fan (犴反父)
father 父
Directly stated · Book of Han 56, passage 102

Places and affiliations

At Suiyang 睢陽
Directly stated · Book of Han 56, passage 102

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 56Volume 47: The Three Sons of Emperor Wen · 4 passages

元朔中，睢陽人犴反，人辱其父，而與睢陽太守客俱出同車。 Under Emperor Wu’s Yuanshuo reign, a Suiyang commoner named Han Fan, whose father had been publicly shamed, happened to share a carriage leaving town with one of the grand administrator’s retainers.

犴反殺其仇車上，亡去。 Fan stabbed his enemy to death in the cart and fled.

二千石以下求反急，執反親戚。 Officials down the line hunted Fan relentlessly and rounded up his relatives.

反知國陰事，乃上變告梁王與大母爭尊狀。 Fan knew the kingdom's private affairs, so he submitted a denunciation to the throne, accusing the king of Liang of contending with his grandmother, Empress Dowager Li, over ritual precedence.