吕产 / Lü Chan (Western Han)

Overview

吕产 / Lü Chan is presented as the Lü-family political and military figure associated with the Southern Army after 吕雉’s death. Kept outside Weiyang Palace after the Northern Army changed hands, he was killed by 刘章, making his death the decisive threshold in the anti-Lü action.

Current Profile

Hanji 205 part 2 places Lü Chan beside 吕禄 in Lu Zhi’s final security arrangement. He remains with the southern army rather than attend the funeral, helping maintain immediate order while concentrating armed power in Lü-family hands.

Hanji 207 part 1 begins after Lü Chan has been killed and treats his death as the turning point after which 周勃’s side arrests and kills the wider Lü household. It therefore supplies the consequence of his defeat without reconstructing the confrontation or independently verifying every target and procedure.

Hanji 206 part 2 fills that operational gap. After receiving a warning about coordination among Guan Ying, Qi, and Chu, Lü Chan reportedly moves toward Weiyang Palace without knowing that Lü Lu has surrendered the Northern Army. Gate control prevents him from entering the inner palace; Liu Zhang arrives with troops, attacks after a standoff, and kills him. The episode presents Lü Chan as intending a palace coup, but that motive and the exact action remain source-attributed.

Key Characteristics

• Lü-family figure holding the southern army after Lu Zhi’s death.
• Executor of a funeral-period security arrangement in Chang’an.
• Participant in an alleged clan coup plan that the episode reports but does not independently verify.
• Actor whose information lag leaves him approaching the palace after the Northern Army has changed hands.
• Anti-Lü target blocked by palace-gate control and killed by Liu Zhang’s force.
• Death becomes the threshold between military confrontation and wider kin-group liquidation.

Evidence

Capital military position:

• Hanji 205 part 2 assigns Lü Chan the southern army and says he remains on guard during the funeral.

Reported coup context:

• Hanji 205 part 2 says the Lü clan considered a seizure of power but hesitated before senior ministers and commanders.

Post-defeat consequence:

• Hanji 206 part 2 reports the warning, attempted palace entry, gate closure, confrontation with Liu Zhang, death, and Zhou Bo’s judgment that the principal threat was over.
• Hanji 207 part 1 places the general Lü-family roundup and killing immediately after Lü Chan’s death.

Qualifications

This profile now has an episode-level reconstruction of Lü Chan’s final movement but not an independently verified one. His offices, personal decisions, knowledge of the Northern Army transfer, intent to stage a coup, chronology, palace access, force sizes, weather, combat, hiding place, death, wider death list, and legal procedure remain episode-attributed. Hanji 205 announces source problems without analyzing them, and Hanji 207 supplies consequences rather than verification.

What Changed

• Added the palace-gate sequence, information lag, confrontation with Liu Zhang, and reported killing.
• Clarified why Lü Chan’s death functions as the transition from contested military control to wider family liquidation.

Relationships

• 吕雉 - senior Lü ruler whose death creates the succession vacuum.
• 吕禄 - parallel holder of the northern army.
• 刘章 - later killer in existing wiki evidence.
• 摄政终结后的内外合击动员 - coalition pattern formed against Lü military control.
• 继位合法性清洗 - settlement mechanism that carries military victory into destruction of the defeated kin network.