Qin and Han · Senior Kunmi of Wusun and son of Wengguimi

Yuanguimi 元貴靡

Attested BC 60

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yuanguimi was a Senior Kunmi of Wusun and son of Wengguimi.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 60 未出塞，翁歸靡死
Strongly inferred · Book of Han 89, passage 75

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Betrothed to Princess Xiangfu (相夫公主)
marry the Lesser Princess 尚少主 · Betrothal · Ended
Directly stated · Book of Han 89, passages 71, 74, 81, 83
Child of Wengguimi (翁歸靡)
maternal grandson of Han 漢外孫
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Han 89, passage 71
Child of Princess Jieyou (解憂公主)
maternal grandson of Han 漢外孫
Strongly inferred · Book of Han 89, passages 71, 80

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 89Volume 78: Xiao Wangzhi · 5 passages

先是，烏孫昆彌翁歸靡因長羅侯常惠上書，願以漢外孫元貴靡為嗣，得復尚少主，結婚內附，畔去匈奴。 Earlier Wengguimi, Kunmi of Wusun, had petitioned through Chang Hui, Marquis of Changluo, asking that his son Yuanguimi, a grandson of the Han imperial house through his mother, succeed him and marry the Lesser Princess. This would renew the marriage alliance, attach Wusun to Han, and sever its ties with the Xiongnu.

神爵二年，遣長羅侯惠使送公主配元貴靡。 In Shenjue 2 he sent Chang Hui to escort the princess to Yuanguimi.

惠至烏孫，責以負約，因立元貴靡，還迎少主。 At Wusun he rebuked them for bad faith, enthroned Yuanguimi, and came back for the princess.

今少主以元貴靡不得立而還，信無負於四夷，此中國之大福也。 To bring her home because Yuanguimi failed keeps good faith with the outer tribes without loss—a great boon to China.

後烏孫雖分國兩立，以元貴靡為大昆彌，漢遂不復與結婚。 Wusun later split into two realms, with Yuanguimi as the senior Kunmi, and Han never again renewed the marriage alliance.