Qin and Han · Family Member

Xu Mi 靡

Mi

Attested BC 18 - BC 8

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Xu Mi was a Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 8 莽遂代根為大司馬
Directly stated · Book of Han 105, passage 138
BC 18 許皇后坐執左道廢
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 105, passages 130-131

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Sibling of Empress Xu (許皇后)
elder sister 后姊
Directly stated · Book of Han 105, passage 130
Spouse of Chunyu Chang (淳于長)
junior wife 小妻 · Concubinage
Directly stated · Book of Han 105, passage 131
Spouse of Marquis of Longesi (龍額思侯)
wife 夫人 · Widowed
Directly stated · Book of Han 105, passage 130

Career and standing

Held
Widow
Directly stated · Book of Han 105, passage 130

Places and affiliations

Polity Western Han 西漢 · Relation Attested in
Directly stated · Book of Han 105, passage 130

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Han 105, passage 280

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 105Volume 93: Flatterers · 6 passages

初，許皇后坐執左道廢處長定宮，而後姊靡為龍額思侯夫人，寡居。 Former Empress Xu had lost her title for "left-path" sorcery and lived at the Changding Palace; her sister Mi, widow of the marquis of Longesi, kept house alone.

長與靡私通，因取為小妻。 Chunyu Chang took Mi as a secret concubine.

許后因靡賂遺長，欲求復為婕妤。 The deposed empress sent gifts through Mi, begging to be restored as a lady of handsome favor.

靡每入長定宮，輒與靡書，戲侮許后，嫚易無不言。 Whenever Mi visited the Changding Palace, he sent letters along with her, ridiculing the former empress in the crudest terms.

根兄子新都侯王莽心害長寵，私聞長取許靡，受長定宮賂遺。 Wang Mang of Xindu, Wang Gen's nephew, envied Chang's rise and quietly confirmed his affair with Xu Mi and the bribes from Changding.

莽求見太后，具言長驕佚，欲代曲陽侯，對莽母上車，私與長定貴人姊通，受取其衣物。 Mang told the empress dowager everything: Chang's arrogance, his designs on Wang Gen's post, his brazen familiarity with Mang's mother at the carriage step, his affair with the Changding noblewoman's sister, and the gifts he took from her.