丁姬 / Ding Ji (Western Han)

Overview

丁姬 / Ding Ji enters the wiki through Hanji 626 as 汉哀帝’s mother and one of the two deceased women whom 王莽 targets in 5 CE. The source groups her with 傅太后 as a posthumous-rank and burial-status case.

Current Profile

The episode says Ding Ji’s burial treatment and posthumous honors are judged by Wang Mang as above the rank proper to a vassal consort-side woman. After 王政君 first resists the grave-opening proposal, Wang Mang presses again and gains approval for stronger demotion measures, including lower-status burial arrangements and removal of luxury burial symbols.

Ding Ji’s current wiki role is narrow. She is not developed as a full lifetime political actor in this source; she marks how Wang Mang’s ritual correction reaches backward into the dead, using tombs, titles, and material signs as evidence for political punishment.

Key Characteristics

• Mother of Han Aidi whose posthumous honor remains politically exposed after death.
• Parallel target with Fu Taihou in Wang Mang’s 5 CE grave-opening and demotion campaign.
• Burial-status case in which luxury goods and rank symbols become grounds for punishment.
• Figure through whom the episode shows dead consort women being used for live court politics.

Evidence

• Identity and target status: Hanji 626 identifies Ding Ji as Han Aidi’s mother and says Wang Mang includes her in the posthumous prosecution.
• Burial demotion: Hanji 626 says Wang Mang requests lower-grade treatment for her coffin, garments, and burial placement.
• Tomb destruction sequence: Hanji 626 says her tomb is part of the large-scale leveling campaign.

Qualifications

The page does not settle Ding Ji’s full lifetime status, exact title wording, or the legal validity of Wang Mang’s rank argument. Hanji 626 supplies a compact narrative of her posthumous treatment, and the wiki keeps broader Ai-era factional history source-scoped.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 626’s Ding Ji posthumous demotion and tomb-destruction branch.

Relationships

• 汉哀帝 - son whose imperial status made Ding Ji’s posthumous rank politically charged.
• 王莽 - official who pushes the posthumous demotion.
• 王政君 - senior dowager who first resists and then approves Wang Mang’s proposal.
• 傅太后 - paired target in the same grave-opening case.
• 陵墓亵渎式政治暴力 - concept directly extended by the treatment of her tomb.
• 丧葬名分僭越 - adjacent concept because the accusation turns above-rank burial goods into political evidence.