刘瑰 / Liu Gui (late Han)

Overview

刘瑰 / Liu Gui enters the wiki through Hanji 796 as the title-succession beneficiary attached to 王圣’s household under 汉安帝. His marriage to 伯荣 and succession to the Shaoyang marquisate become the concrete case behind 杨震’s early objection to palace-favorite disruption of public title order.

Current Profile

Hanji 796 gives Liu Gui a source-bounded profile rather than an independent biography. He is presented as a cousin of the late Shaoyang Hou Liu Hu; after an illicit relationship with Bo Rong, he marries her, becomes shizhong, and receives the path to inherit Liu Hu’s marquisate.

The succession issue is the page’s durable knowledge claim. Yang Zhen argues that hereditary order normally follows father-to-son or elder-brother-to-younger-brother logic, and that Liu Hu’s younger brother Liu Wei is still alive. Liu Gui’s elevation therefore appears as a palace-favor exception rather than a neutral kinship succession.

Liu Gui matters because his case shows private household access working across marriage, office, and title. Wang Sheng’s status as An’s wet nurse, Bo Rong’s favored position, and Liu Gui’s new office/title path combine into a compact example of 私恩任官侵蚀.

Key Characteristics

• Shaoyang marquisate beneficiary whose title path is challenged as procedurally improper.
• Cousin-line successor presented against the nearer claim of Liu Hu’s younger brother Liu Wei.
• Bo Rong’s husband, making marriage into Wang Sheng’s favored household politically consequential.
• Shizhong whose office and title rise are tied to palace proximity rather than demonstrated public merit.
• Source-bounded figure whose importance is institutional rather than biographical.

Evidence

• Marriage and office path: Hanji 796 says Liu Gui marries Bo Rong, becomes shizhong, and receives the Shaoyang marquisate succession path.
• Succession objection: Hanji 796 says Yang Zhen objects that father-son and elder-younger brother succession norms should matter while Liu Wei is still alive.
• Palace-household context: Hanji 796 places Liu Gui’s rise beside Wang Sheng’s enfeoffment and Bo Rong’s favored position near Emperor An.
• Institutional meaning: Hanji 796 frames the case as evidence that ruler-side people can disturb office and title order through intimacy.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 796. It does not settle Liu Gui’s full family tree, later career, legal procedure, or the full Shaoyang Hou succession archive. The source transcript uses 刘归 and 刘沪, while this page normalizes the names to 刘瑰 and 刘护 for the received Tongjian context; Liu Wei remains source-scoped unless later ingests make him a durable wiki subject.

What Changed

• Created Liu Gui as the title-succession actor in the 120-121 CE An-era favorite-household layer.
• Added a disambiguated late-Han route so this figure remains separate from unrelated modern Liu Kai/Liu Gui-style names.

Relationships

• 伯荣 - wife whose favored position links Liu Gui to Wang Sheng’s palace household.
• 王圣 - wet nurse whose household forms the access field behind Liu Gui’s title path.
• 杨震 - remonstrant who challenges Liu Gui’s succession as a violation of title order.
• 汉安帝 - ruler under whom Liu Gui’s office and marquisate path become possible.
• 私恩任官侵蚀 - institutional pattern illustrated by Liu Gui’s marriage-linked office and title rise.