《东观汉记》 / Dongguan Hanji

Overview

《东观汉记》 / Dongguan Hanji enters the wiki through Hanji 732 as an Eastern Han source tradition used to supplement the terse 《资治通鉴》 notice of 光武帝刘秀’s death.

Current Profile

The source’s current function is evidentiary. Hanji 732 uses Dongguan Hanji notices about Liu Xiu’s earlier illnesses to ask whether Guangwu’s death may have followed a longer health decline. The contrast is important: Zizhi Tongjian records death date, place, and age, while Dongguan Hanji gives health episodes that make a medical inference possible but not settled.

In the wiki, Dongguan Hanji therefore marks a source-comparison layer rather than an independent book history. It helps show how later synthesis can widen a chronicle’s sparse death notice while still respecting the gap between symptom record and diagnosis.

Key Characteristics

• Eastern Han historical source tradition cited in the episode for Guangwu health notices.
• Supplements a terse chronicle death notice with earlier symptom evidence.
• Enables bounded inference without proving a specific disease.
• Functions as a reminder that source selection shapes what can be responsibly concluded.

Evidence

• Health-notice supplement: Hanji 732 attributes to Dongguan Hanji earlier Liu Xiu illness notices from 41 CE and 44 CE.
• Source-comparison role: Hanji 732 contrasts those notices with the much shorter Zizhi Tongjian record of death at Nangong.

Qualifications

This page does not yet summarize Dongguan Hanji’s authorship, transmission, or textual history. It records only the function the work performs in Hanji 732.

What Changed

• Created this source-tradition page from Hanji 732 to support the new death-cause inference concept and Liu Xiu update.

Relationships

• 光武帝刘秀 - emperor whose health notices make Dongguan Hanji relevant in this source layer.
• 《资治通鉴》 - chronicle contrasted with Dongguan Hanji’s more detailed illness clues.
• 帝王死因史料推断 - concept that uses Dongguan Hanji as supplementary evidence without converting it into diagnosis.
• 蔡邕 - later Eastern Han historical-memory figure elsewhere in the wiki, useful as a future bridge if Dongguan Hanji’s textual history is expanded.