Qin and Han · Royal Family Member

Liu Yun 劉雲

Attested BC 4

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Liu Yun was a Royal Family Member.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	King Yang	煬王	Yangwang

Life and dates

Death

Suicide
Directly stated · Book of Han 91, passage 163

Attested activity

BC 4 建平三年
Directly stated · Book of Han 91, passage 158

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Liu Kaiming (劉開明)
heir 太子
Directly stated · Book of Han 91, passage 165
Spouse of Queen Ye (後謁)
queen 後 · Primary marriage
Directly stated · Book of Han 91, passage 157
Child of Liu Yu (劉宇)
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Han 91, passage 155

Career and standing

deposed and banished to Fangling 廢徙房陵
Suffered
Directly stated · Book of Han 91, passage 162

Events and relationships

Sacrificed at omens
Ritual · Officiant · With Queen Ye (後謁)
Directly stated · Book of Han 91, passage 157
Sought emperorship via curse
Treason · Conspirator · With Emperor Ai (孝哀皇帝)
Directly stated · Book of Han 91, passages 159-160

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 91Volume 80: The Six Sons of Emperors Xuan and Yuan · 6 passages

立三十三年薨，子煬王雲嗣。 He reigned thirty-three years and died; his son Yun, posthumously Yang, succeeded.

雲及後謁自之石所祭，治石像瓠山立石，束倍草，並祠之。 Yun and Queen Ye visited the omens, set up a stone like the one at Gourd Mountain, bound paired stalks of grass, and offered joint sacrifice.

是時，哀帝被疾，多所惡，事下有司，逮王、後謁下獄驗治，言使巫傅恭、婢合歡等祠祭詛祝上，為雲求為天子。 Ai was ill and ill-tempered; officers jailed king and queen and proved they had set shamans Fu Gong and the slave girl Hehuan cursing the throne so Yun might become Son of Heaven.

雲又與知災異者高尚等指星宿，言上疾必不愈，雲當得天下。 Yun and omen-readers such as Gao Shang traced the stars, swearing the emperor would not recover and the mandate would fall to Yun.

雲自殺，謁棄市。 Yun committed suicide; Ye was executed in the marketplace.

元始元年，王莽欲反哀帝政，白太皇太后，立雲太子開明為東平王，又立思王孫成都為中山王。 In Yuanshi 1, Wang Mang, undoing Ai’s policies, persuaded the grand empress dowager to make Yun’s heir Kai Ming king of Dongping and to enfeoff Chengdu, grandson of the Prince of Dongping, as king of Zhongshan.