广川王刘去 / Liu Qu, Guangchuan King (Western Han)

Overview

广川王刘去 / Liu Qu, Guangchuan King enters the wiki through Hanji 417 as a Western Han royal prince and Han Jingdi descendant whose reputation is built around tomb-robbing, cruelty, and violent household rule. The episode treats him as a grim royal-kin case: status and wealth do not restrain appetite, and curiosity becomes desecration when applied to graves and bodies.

Current Profile

The source portrays Liu Qu as a Guangchuan king surrounded by old Spring and Autumn and Warring States tombs. He is not said to rob graves because he lacks resources; the host frames the act as recreational thrill, possession, and violation. The episode’s most vivid scenes have him entering old graves, seeing preserved corpses, taking objects such as a sword, tasting old wine, and becoming frightened by a white-fox revenge story after opening Luan Shu’s tomb.

The same source makes the tomb stories part of a broader cruelty profile. Liu Qu is described as killing and mutilating palace women, working with Yangcheng Zhaoxin in one accusation-and-torture case, and violating dead bodies after death. When the crimes are exposed, 汉宣帝 removes his kingship, demotes him to commoner status, and sends him toward Shangyong; Liu Qu dies by suicide on the way.

Key Characteristics

• Western Han royal prince and Guangchuan king whose fief is described as containing many older elite tombs.
• Recreational tomb robber whose grave violation is framed as thrill and appetite rather than poverty.
• Desecrator of graves and bodies, including tomb entry, object removal, corpse exposure, and posthumous abuse.
• Violent household ruler whose cruelty toward women becomes central to the source’s moral judgment.
• Royal offender whose crimes eventually reach the court and lead to loss of kingship, exile, and suicide.

Evidence

Tomb-robbing and desecration:

• Hanji 417 says Liu Qu’s territory contained many ancient tombs and that he treated grave entry as a form of pleasure rather than necessity.
• Hanji 417 describes the Jin You Gong tomb scene through many preserved bodies and the Wei Xiangwang tomb through a favored sword and old wine.
• Hanji 417 uses the Luan Shu white-fox story to make the tomb violation morally ominous, even while keeping the event inside the episode’s narrative frame.

Household violence and downfall:

• Hanji 417 says Liu Qu killed and mutilated multiple palace women and abused dead bodies.
• Hanji 417 says Yangcheng Zhaoxin gained primary-wife status after caring for him during illness and then helped frame and kill a consort.
• Hanji 417 says Xuan removed Liu Qu’s royal title, demoted him, exiled him toward Shangyong, and Liu Qu killed himself on the road.

Qualifications

The page is bounded to one podcast summary and should not be used as a full critical biography of Liu Qu. The white-fox episode is preserved as the source’s moral and narrative framing, not as independently verified supernatural causality. Yangcheng Zhaoxin, Luan Shu, Shangyong geography, exact victim counts, and the formal legal procedure remain source-scoped here.

What Changed

• Created Liu Qu as a focused Western Han royal-kin violence and tomb-desecration case from Hanji 417.

Relationships

• 汉宣帝 - ruler who removes Liu Qu’s kingship after the crimes are exposed.
• 陵墓亵渎式政治暴力 - related concept extended by Liu Qu’s private royal grave-robbing.
• 晋幽公 - tomb owner used in the episode’s preserved-corpse scene.
• 魏襄王 - tomb owner used in the episode’s sword and old-wine scene.
• 西汉 - dynastic setting for Liu Qu’s royal status and punishment.