赵王刘恢 / Liu Hui (King of Zhao, Western Han)

Overview

赵王刘恢 / Liu Hui is a Western Han prince whom the episode presents as transferred from Liang to Zhao, placed in a marriage with 吕产’s daughter, monitored by her Lü-family entourage, and driven to suicide after his favored concubine is poisoned.

Current Profile

Hanji 202 part 2 makes Liu Hui’s royal title compatible with very little household autonomy. 吕雉 reportedly moves him from Liang to Zhao and arranges his marriage to Lü Chan’s daughter. The queen’s attendants are described as Lü loyalists who control the household, inspect Liu Hui’s conduct, and report upward.

The episode says the queen has Liu Hui’s favored concubine poisoned out of jealousy. Liu Hui then dies by suicide, after which Lu Zhi interprets the death as an offense against ancestral continuity and bars his descendants from succeeding. The source links the tragedy to Lü-family marriage and surveillance pressure, but it does not independently establish private motives, exact procedure, or the succession ruling.

Key Characteristics

• Liu-family prince moved from the Liang kingship to Zhao under Lu Zhi.
• Royal husband whose imposed Lü-family marriage narrows rather than secures autonomy.
• Monitored household head whose queen’s attendants allegedly investigate and report his behavior.
• Bereaved partner whose favored concubine is reportedly poisoned by the queen.
• Suicide victim whose death is followed by a reported bar on hereditary succession.

Evidence

Royal reassignment and household control:

• Hanji 202 part 2 says Lu Zhi moves Liu Hui from Liang to Zhao, marries him to Lü Chan’s daughter, and surrounds him with a Lü-aligned queen’s household that investigates and reports him.

Death and succession consequence:

• Hanji 202 part 2 says the queen poisons Liu Hui’s favored concubine, Liu Hui dies by suicide, and Lu Zhi refuses to let his descendants inherit.

Qualifications

This profile is bounded to one structured popular-history summary. Liu Hui’s exact titles and dates, the voluntariness of the marriage, the queen’s identity and motive, the attendants’ authority, the concubine’s identity and death, Liu Hui’s mental state, the method of suicide, Lu Zhi’s words, and the legal succession consequence require comparison with transmitted histories. The episode title’s starvation framing does not match its account of Liu Hui’s death and is not used as biography evidence.

What Changed

• Created a bounded profile separating Liu Hui’s nominal royal rank from the episode’s account of marital, household, and succession control.

Relationships

• 吕雉 - regent who reportedly reassigns, marries, and later blocks Liu Hui’s succession line.
• 吕产 - Lü-family king whose daughter is presented as Liu Hui’s queen.
• 强制赐婚 - mechanism through which a status-granting marriage becomes ongoing household coercion.
• 同姓王分封 - institutional setting in which royal title, territorial reassignment, and central control coexist.
• 赵国 - kingdom to which Liu Hui is reassigned in the episode.