刘原子 / Liu Yuanzi (Western Han)

Overview

刘原子 / Liu Yuanzi enters the wiki through Hanji 545 as the royal woman named in the accusation against 梁王刘立. The episode identifies her as Liu Li’s aunt and as the wife of his maternal uncle Ren Bao, making the alleged relationship both a kinship taboo and a royal-house scandal.

Current Profile

The source does not give Liu Yuanzi an independent biography. She matters because officials use the alleged relationship with Liu Li to escalate an investigation from hostile speech and lawlessness into a capital “禽兽行” charge. 谷永 then uses her position and likely shame as part of his evidentiary challenge: if she were Liu Li’s father’s sister, he argues, she would have strong reason not to expose such a disgrace voluntarily.

Her page should therefore stay tightly bounded. The episode preserves her as an accused figure and a test of procedure, not as a proved participant in the alleged act.

Key Characteristics

• Western Han royal woman attached to the Liang king scandal.
• Identified as Liu Li’s aunt and as Ren Bao’s wife.
• Named in an alleged kinship-transgression case used to request Liu Li’s execution.
• Functions mainly as evidence in Gu Yong’s argument that the accusation may be implausible or mishandled.

Evidence

• Kinship position: Hanji 545 says Liu Yuanzi is the sister of Liu Li’s father and thus Liu Li’s aunt.
• Marriage tie: Hanji 545 says she is also the wife of Liu Li’s maternal uncle Ren Bao.
• Accusation role: Hanji 545 says investigators accused Liu Li of adultery with Liu Yuanzi and requested execution under a “禽兽行” frame.
• Gu Yong’s plausibility challenge: Hanji 545 says Gu Yong doubted she would willingly expose a disgrace involving her brother’s son.

Qualifications

This page is source-scoped to Hanji 545. It does not settle Liu Yuanzi’s full genealogy, title history, marriage chronology, testimony, actual conduct, or the legal truth of the accusation. The source’s key point is procedural and political: her name makes the case explosive, while Gu Yong’s memorial keeps the accusation from becoming settled fact.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 545’s Liang king accusation and Gu Yong’s procedural skepticism.

Relationships

• 梁王刘立 - nephew and accused counterpart in the scandal case.
• 谷永 - official whose memorial questions the accusation’s plausibility.
• 汉成帝 - ruler who accepts suppression of the case.
• 宗室亲属丑闻审理 - concept grounded by the procedural handling of her accusation.