Qin and Han · Royal Family Member

Liu Jian 建

Jian

Attested BC 130 - BC 124

Passages: 9
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Liu Jian was a Royal Family Member.

Life and dates

Death

Suicide
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 59, passage 51

Attested activity

BC 130 to BC 124 七年自殺
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 59, passages 40-41

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Fei (非)
father 父
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 59, passage 40
Kin of Lady Nao (淖姬)
illicit relations 姦
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 59, passage 44

Kinship Role siblings · Qualifier incest with elder sisters and younger brothers; plural siblings · Quantity many · Count 2
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 59, passage 48

Career and standing

Suicide after interrogation
Confessed
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 59, passage 51

Places and affiliations

Polity Han 漢 · Relation Royal kinsman
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 59, passage 1

Events and relationships

Huainan investigation
Political · Implicated
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 59, passage 45

References in the histories

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History

9 passages

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 59House of the Five Clans · 9 passages

立二十六年卒，子建立為王。 After twenty-six years on the throne he died, and his son Jian was established as king in his stead.

七年自殺。 Seven years later, Jian took his own life.

淮南、衡山謀反時，建頗聞其謀。 When the kings of Huainan and Hengshan were plotting rebellion, Jian had caught wind of their conspiracy.

易王死未葬，建有所說易王寵美人淖姬，夜使人迎與姦服舍中。 Before King Yi had even been laid to rest, Jian became enamored of the late king's favored consort, Lady Nao. Under cover of night he sent men to bring her to his quarters, where he took her as his own.

及淮南事發，治黨與頗及江都王建。 When the Huainan conspiracy was uncovered, the investigation of its accomplices extended to implicate King Jian of Jiangdu.

建恐，因使人多持金錢，事絕其獄。 Jian grew alarmed and dispatched agents laden with gold and coin to bribe officials and quash the proceedings against him.

建又盡與其姊弟姦。 Jian further committed incest with all of his elder sisters and younger brothers.

事既聞，漢公卿請捕治建。 When these affairs came to light, the ministers and nobles of the Han court petitioned for Jian's arrest and prosecution.

彭祖取笔江都易王寵姬王建所盜與姦淖姬者為姬，甚愛之。 Pengzu took as his own consort the very Lady Nao whom King Jian of Jiangdu had abducted from the late King Yi's inner palace and bedded unlawfully. Pengzu doted on her greatly.