郎顗 / Lang Yi (late Han)

Overview

郎顗 / Lang Yi is a Shun-era omen specialist, remonstrant, and recommender. Hanji 812 adds his summons after a tomb-building fire and his policy-heavy disaster answer; Hanji 813 shows him using drought and wind anomalies to recommend 黄琼 and 李固. The source transcripts write 郎乙 and 郎毅, but the Beihai yin-yang specialist, disaster-remonstrance, and recommendation context support normalizing him to 郎顗 while preserving the spelling caution.

Current Profile

Hanji 812 gives Lang Yi a direct disaster-inquiry role. After a fire at Emperor An’s Gongling tomb buildings, 汉顺帝 hears that Lang Yi of Beihai knows yin-yang learning and summons him by official carriage in 133 CE to explain celestial and disaster anomalies. Lang Yi uses the opening to criticize the Three Excellencies: high office carries responsibility for recommendation and governance, but the court punishes commandery and kingdom officials more strictly than the senior ministers who recommended them.

The same source makes Lang Yi’s memorial practical rather than only omen language. He recommends easing labor after the tomb fire, choosing good ministers, preparing for drought and flood, releasing eligible palace women for marriage, warning frontier commanderies against Western Qiang danger, delaying lawsuits until autumn, and simplifying accumulated laws so ordinary people can avoid punishment more realistically.

Hanji 813 places Lang Yi in the same 133 CE court-repair field, when drought and unseasonable west winds let him speak about political failure through a Heaven-and-human-affairs frame. He argues that sincere self-correction matters more than repeated sacrificial performance, and he recommends 黄琼 and 李固 as people Shun should bring into use.

Lang Yi is not presented as a durable office-seeker in these sources. Shun appoints him langzhong after receiving the Hanji 813 memorial, but Lang Yi feigns illness and does not take up the post. His wiki significance is therefore concentrated in three roles: omen expert summoned into crisis explanation, disaster-policy remonstrant who turns signs into governance remedies, and recommender who helps bring Li Gu and Huang Qiong into the 133 CE court-repair field.

Key Characteristics

• Yin-yang and omen specialist summoned by Shun after a tomb-building fire.
• Disaster-remonstrance speaker who translates fire, drought, wind, and seasonal anomalies into political criticism.
• Talent recommender who helps bring Huang Qiong and Li Gu into Shun’s attention.
• Critic of empty ritual performance when it is not joined to real self-correction.
• High-office accountability critic who asks why local recommenders are punished while the Three Excellencies’ recommendation responsibility is spared.
• Reluctant office-holder who avoids the langzhong post after being appointed.

Evidence

• Summons after disaster: Hanji 812 says Shun summons Lang Yi after the Gongling fire because Lang is known for yin-yang expertise.
• Three Excellencies criticism: Hanji 812 says Lang criticizes senior officials who enjoy rank and salary without bearing enough responsibility for those they recommend.
• Practical policy package: Hanji 812 records proposals on labor relief, frugality, palace women, frontier warning, seasonal lawsuits, and legal simplification.
• Drought-remonstrance frame: Hanji 813 says Lang Yi reads the failure of rain and repeated west winds as Heaven responding to human affairs.
• Sincerity critique: Hanji 813 says he warns that sacrifice and formal expiation are ineffective without genuine correction.
• Recommendation role: Hanji 813 says he recommends Huang Qiong and Li Gu to Emperor Shun.
• Office refusal: Hanji 813 says Shun appoints him langzhong, but Lang Yi claims illness and does not enter service.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 812 and Hanji 813. The transcript spellings 郎乙 and 郎毅 are preserved as cautions, and the page does not yet establish Lang Yi’s broader biography, writings, offices, or later career beyond the Shun-era disaster and recommendation setting.

What Changed

• Added Hanji 812 as Lang Yi’s summons, high-office accountability, and seven-proposal disaster-policy layer.
• Reframed Lang Yi from recommendation-only remonstrant into omen expert, practical policy critic, and talent recommender.
• Preserved Hanji 813 as the drought/wind recommendation layer that brings Huang Qiong and Li Gu into Shun’s attention.
• Normalized the transcript forms 郎乙 and 郎毅 cautiously to 郎顗 while keeping the uncertainty visible.

Relationships

• 汉顺帝 - ruler who receives Lang Yi’s drought memorial and appoints him langzhong.
• 黄琼 - recommended figure whose later Shun-era role is partly opened by Lang Yi’s memorial.
• 李固 - recommended figure whose disaster-policy answer becomes central to the following 133 CE sequence.
• 天象灾异包装式进谏 - rhetorical strategy Lang Yi uses by turning fire, drought, and wind into political warning.
• 天象政治责任 - responsibility logic behind Lang Yi’s Heaven-and-human-affairs diagnosis.
• 君臣反馈失灵 - accountability problem Lang Yi diagnoses when responsibility falls more heavily on lower recommenders than on senior sponsors.