淳于衍 / Chunyu Yan (Western Han)

Overview

淳于衍 / Chunyu Yan enters the wiki through Hanji 413-2 as the female palace physician who poisons 许平君 during childbirth under pressure from 霍显. The source presents her as medically skilled but morally collapsed: a healer whose access to childbirth medication becomes the operational channel for murder.

Current Profile

The episode gives Chunyu Yan a narrow but important role in the Huo-family arc. She is close enough to Xu Pingjun to attend her pregnancy and delivery, and her husband works in a low-status night gatekeeping role in the palace. Her request to improve that husband’s position gives Huo Xian leverage. Once Huo Xian tells her the murder plan, Chunyu Yan understands that refusal is dangerous because she now knows the secret; she therefore agrees to try.

Her significance is not independent factional power but access conversion. Huo Xian has motive and family authority, but Chunyu Yan has the professional route into the empress’s body. The episode makes the breach especially stark because palace medicines are supposed to be reviewed and tasted, yet Chunyu Yan uses her presence beside the approved medication to introduce toxic附子 and deny Xu Pingjun’s immediate suspicion.

Key Characteristics

• Palace physician with direct access to Xu Pingjun during pregnancy and childbirth.
• Job-seeking petitioner whose husband’s position gives Huo Xian an opening for pressure and reward.
• Operational agent of Xu Pingjun’s poisoning, according to the episode.
• Medical-ethics negative example because healing knowledge and medicine access are turned into murder.
• Dependent actor rather than independent planner; Huo Xian supplies motive, target, and political pressure.

Evidence

Medical access:

• Hanji 413-2 says Chunyu Yan is a skilled female physician who often enters the palace to treat Xu Pingjun and is responsible for attending the delivery.

Recruitment pressure:

• Hanji 413-2 says she asks Huo Xian for help improving her husband’s palace job.
• Hanji 413-2 says Huo Xian promises shared wealth while invoking Huo Guang’s power to make refusal and exposure feel unsafe.

Poisoning act:

• Hanji 413-2 says Chunyu Yan secretly carries toxic附子, mixes it into medicine after other palace physicians present medication, and gives it to Xu Pingjun.
• Hanji 413-2 says Xu Pingjun suspects poison after sudden dizziness and distress, but Chunyu Yan denies it before Xu dies.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 413-2. It does not reconstruct Chunyu Yan’s full biography, the legal aftermath of the poisoning, her husband’s full identity or office, or the primary-source medical details of附子 dosage and palace drug-review procedure. The source presents her as coerced and tempted, but not exonerated.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 413-2 as the operational medical-access actor in Xu Pingjun’s poisoning.

Relationships

• 许平君 - empress whom Chunyu Yan poisons during childbirth in the source account.
• 霍显 - planner who pressures and rewards Chunyu Yan.
• 霍成君 - intended beneficiary of the murder plot.
• 霍光 - authority invoked by Huo Xian to make the plot feel protected.
• 霍氏灭族与权力退场失败 / Huo Family Purge After Huo Guang - later arc that depends on the hidden poisoning becoming a family survival threat.