班始 / Ban Shi (late Han)

Overview

班始 / Ban Shi is a late-Han Ban-family descendant whose wiki profile is bounded to the Yincheng Princess killing in Hanji 810. He is presented as Ban Chao’s grandson and the husband of 阴城公主, then as the person whose lethal retaliation brings both his own execution and collateral punishment on his siblings.

Current Profile

Ban Shi’s status in the current wiki comes through family prestige and royal marriage. Hanji 810 says he married Yincheng Princess, the daughter of Liu Qing and aunt of 汉顺帝. The episode describes the marriage as sharply unequal after Yincheng becomes a princess-ranked imperial relative.

The source narrative centers on humiliation inside the household: Yincheng is said to bring lovers home and force Ban Shi into a hidden, powerless position. Ban Shi then kills Yincheng and one lover. Shun reacts with extreme anger, orders Ban Shi waist-chopped, and extends punishment to Ban Shi’s full siblings, whose corpses are displayed publicly.

Key Characteristics

• Ban-family descendant whose current wiki role is defined by marriage into imperial kinship.
• Husband caught in a princess-marriage hierarchy where rank can overwhelm ordinary household authority.
• Actor whose violent retaliation follows source-described humiliation but does not remove the legal and moral gravity of killing.
• Punishment target whose case expands from personal execution to sibling collateral punishment.
• Source-bounded tragic figure, not yet a full biography of the Ban family.

Evidence

• Lineage and marriage position: Hanji 810 says Ban Shi is Ban Chao’s grandson and Yincheng Princess’s husband.
• Power-asymmetric humiliation: Hanji 810 says Yincheng humiliates Ban Shi by bringing lovers into the home and placing him in a hidden position.
• Killing: Hanji 810 says Ban Shi kills Yincheng and one lover.
• Imperial and collateral punishment: Hanji 810 says Shun orders Ban Shi waist-chopped and has his full siblings killed and displayed.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 810 and should not be treated as a complete Ban Shi biography. The episode is sympathetic to Ban Shi’s humiliating position, but the current synthesis keeps that status analysis separate from justification for killing. The lover, siblings, and wider legal procedure are not independently reconstructed here.

What Changed

• Created the Ban Shi page to anchor the Yincheng Princess killing, princess-marriage asymmetry, and collateral punishment sequence from Hanji 810.

Relationships

• 阴城公主 - wife and victim in the source’s marriage-conflict narrative.
• 汉顺帝 - ruler who orders Ban Shi’s execution and collateral sibling punishment.
• 公主婚姻权力失衡 - concept modeled by Ban Shi’s powerless position inside a royal marriage.
• 连坐与株连惩罚 - broader punishment pattern visible in the execution of Ban Shi’s siblings.
• 芮淇讲透资治通鉴 - podcast series that preserves the current source-bounded narrative.