entity Updated 2026-08-23 Tags: Place, Western-Han, Rebellion, Frontier

参合 / Canhe

参合 / Canhe enters the wiki through Hanji 182 part 2 as the northern place where 陈豨 and 韩王信 converge after battlefield setbacks in the 陈豨之乱. The source locates it near the southwest of modern Yanggao County, Shanxi.

The episode stresses Canhe’s route value: it sits at a transport hinge among Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, and Hebei. That geography makes sense of Han Wang Xin and Chen Xi’s reliance on 匈奴-side possibilities, because Canhe can function as both a defensive rally point and an escape-support corridor.

Canhe also marks the rebellion’s hard coercive endpoint. 柴武 first writes to Han Wang Xin urging surrender, but Han Wang Xin refuses; Han forces then defeat and kill him there, take the city, and slaughter it. Chen Xi survives temporarily before later being defeated by 樊哙.

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