海昏侯国 / Haihun Marquisate

Overview

海昏侯国 / Haihun Marquisate enters the wiki through Hanji 430 as the reduced settlement granted to 刘贺 after his deposition from imperial and royal standing.

Current Profile

In this source, Haihun is not primarily a local-history object. It is a political containment device: 汉宣帝 gives Liu He a noble title and territory while denying him the royal privileges that could reconnect him to imperial ritual and court politics.

Key Characteristics

• Reduced Western Han marquisate for a former emperor.
• Preserves noble status while narrowing ritual and political reach.
• Functions in the episode as a compromise between execution, restoration, and unmanaged legitimacy risk.

Evidence

Containment arrangement:

• Hanji 430 says Xuan makes Liu He Marquis of Haihun in 63 BCE.
• Hanji 430 says Liu He loses ancestral-temple sacrifice and court-audience rights.

Qualifications

This page is source-scoped to Hanji 430. It does not reconstruct Haihun’s archaeology, administrative geography, tomb finds, or later reception history.

What Changed

• Created the page as the political settlement attached to Liu He’s containment.

Relationships

• 刘贺 / Liu He / Marquis of Haihun - former emperor and marquis assigned to Haihun.
• Emperor Xuan of Han / 汉宣帝 / 刘询 / 刘病已 - ruler who uses the marquisate as a controlled settlement.
• Western Han dynasty / 西汉 - dynasty whose succession politics give the marquisate its political meaning in this source.