长乐宫 / Changle Palace
长乐宫 / Changle Palace enters the wiki through Hanji 171 part 2 as the first major palace renovation after 刘邦 moves the 西汉 capital toward 长安. The episode says Liu Bang renovates the Qin-era Xinglegong in the leap ninth month and later lives there after completion in the second month of Han year seven.
The source uses the palace notice as institutional background rather than as architectural history. After the war-winning phase and the capital-location decision, the Han court now needs physical spaces for durable imperial rule. Changle Palace becomes part of that court geography together with 未央宫.
The episode also notes the later Western Han arrangement in which emperors normally live in Weiyang Palace while empress dowagers live in Changle Palace. In this source, that pattern is introduced through the later separation between 刘盈 and 吕雉.
Hanji 176 returns to Changle Palace after its completion in the winter tenth month of Han year seven. The palace becomes the stage where 叔孙通’s new audience ritual is performed: officials enter before dawn, ranks are arranged, guards and flags frame the ruler, toasts proceed by title, and censors remove breaches. The building therefore shifts from capital infrastructure into the visible setting for 君臣礼制距离.
Hanji 182 part 2 gives Changle Palace a harsher capital-security role. 吕雉 and 萧何 use false news of 陈豨’s defeat to draw 韩信 into a palace congratulations setting; once he enters, he is bound, killed, and exterminated by three clans. The same palace that displays ritual order can therefore also become a controlled space for eliminating a politically dangerous功臣.
Hanji 182 part 3 adds the source-scoped execution tradition attached to that controlled space. The episode says Han Xin is wrapped, suspended, covered, and stabbed with sharpened bamboo so that Liu Bang’s supposed “not seeing heaven, earth, or weapon” promise is formally avoided. The detail is recorded as dramatic lore, but it makes Changle Palace more than the summons destination: it is the enclosed court space where ritual entry becomes physical helplessness.
Connections
- Hanji 182 part 3, 韩信, 吕雉, 萧何, and 权力退场困境 - source-scoped execution lore inside the controlled palace space.
- Hanji 182 part 2, 韩信, 吕雉, 萧何, and 报捷祝贺式诱捕 - false-victory summons and killing inside Changle Palace.
- Hanji 176, 叔孙通, 刘邦, 礼制政治秩序, and 君臣礼制距离 - completed court-audience ritual inside Changle Palace.
- Hanji 171 part 2 - source page.
- 刘邦, 长安, and 西汉 - founding ruler, capital, and dynasty.
- 未央宫, 刘盈, and 吕雉 - later palace-residence pairing.