伯荣 / Bo Rong (late Han)

Overview

伯荣 / Bo Rong now appears in the wiki as a palace-connected figure whose significance moves across two 汉安帝 problems: title-order distortion through 王圣’s household in Hanji 796, and local extraction through Ganling-capital missions in Hanji 798.

Current Profile

Hanji 796 identifies Bo Rong as one of Wang Sheng’s daughters and presents her as a favored person near An. Her relationship and later marriage with 刘瑰 matter because Liu Gui becomes shizhong and receives the path to inherit the Shaoyang marquisate even though Liu Hu’s younger brother Liu Wei is still alive. 杨震 uses that succession problem to challenge favorite-linked disruption of title order.

Hanji 798 gives Bo Rong a second institutional role as a palace emissary moving between Ganling and the capital. The source does not give an independent biography; it uses her passage as the visible case for 陈忠’s critique of palace-proximity power. Princes, marquises, and senior officials over-honor her carriage, while local administrations mobilize roads, stations, supplies, gifts, and labor for the mission field.

Together, the sources make Bo Rong a carrier of ambiguous imperial proximity. Her significance is not reducible to personal morality: she shows how a palace household can affect title succession in one layer and local administrative burden in another.

Key Characteristics

• Wang Sheng’s daughter whose favored position makes her politically consequential under Emperor An.
• Liu Gui’s wife, linking a palace household to a disputed marquisate succession.
• Trigger figure in Yang Zhen’s early objection to title-order disruption.
• Palace emissary whose Ganling-capital missions ground Chen Zhong’s warning about local burden.
• Source-bounded actor whose importance is institutional rather than biographical.

Evidence

• Household identity and title path: Hanji 796 says Bo Rong is Wang Sheng’s daughter and is linked to Liu Gui’s marriage, shizhong office, and Shaoyang marquisate succession.
• Yang Zhen’s objection: Hanji 796 says Yang objects that Liu Gui’s succession violates father-son or elder-younger brother title order while Liu Wei is still alive.
• Mission role: Hanji 798 says Emperor An sends Bo Rong and other palace-linked messengers between Ganling and the capital.
• Status inflation and local burden: Hanji 798 says princes, marquises, and senior officials bow before Bo Rong’s carriage, while roads, stations, supplies, gifts, and labor are mobilized for such passage.
• Imperial-intent risk: Hanji 798 says Chen Zhong warns that non-correction will make people think the emperor endorses the practice.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 798 and Hanji 796. It does not settle Bo Rong’s full family structure, gendered title status, office, later career, personal intent, or all travel missions. The source transcript in Hanji 796 uses 薄荣, while this page normalizes the late-Han route to 伯荣 for the received Tongjian context.

What Changed

• Added Hanji 796 as Bo Rong’s earlier Wang Sheng household and Liu Gui title-succession layer.
• Reframed Hanji 798’s Ganling mission as a later expression of palace proximity that also appears in the title-order field.

Relationships

• 王圣 - mother whose wet-nurse status gives Bo Rong’s household political weight.
• 刘瑰 - husband whose disputed title succession makes Bo Rong’s favored position institutionally important.
• 汉安帝 - ruler whose favor and missions give Bo Rong coercive local and title-order significance.
• 杨震 - official who criticizes the Liu Gui title path attached to Bo Rong.
• 陈忠 - official who criticizes the burden and status inflation around Bo Rong’s missions.
• 私恩任官侵蚀 - title and office erosion visible in the Bo Rong-Liu Gui path.
• 宫使扰民式地方抽取 - local extraction concept grounded by Bo Rong’s passage and reception.
• 宫廷近身权力 - access mechanism linking Bo Rong’s household status to public consequences.