魏律 / Wei Lü (Xiongnu-aligned)

Overview

魏律 / Wei Lü enters the wiki through Hanji 389-2 as the Xiongnu-aligned figure who becomes jealous of captured 李广利’s honor among 匈奴 and helps bring about Li Guangli’s ritual killing. In this source, he functions as a court-jealousy and ritual-manipulation actor.

Current Profile

The episode does not give Wei Lü’s full biography. It introduces him after Li Guangli’s capture, when Li Guangli is allegedly respected in Xiongnu territory. Wei Lü’s jealousy is paired with the illness of the chanyu’s mother, the Great Yanzhi. He instructs a Hu shaman to say that the dead old chanyu demands Li Guangli as a sacrifice to the land spirit, creating a ritual pretext for political elimination.

Key Characteristics

• Xiongnu-aligned actor in the source’s Li Guangli death scene.
• Jealous of Li Guangli’s honored status after capture.
• Uses illness and shamanic speech as a political weapon.
• Helps convert court rivalry into sacrificial killing.
• Appears here as a source-scoped episode figure, not as a full biographical subject.

Evidence

Jealousy:

• Hanji 389-2 says Wei Lü is jealous that Li Guangli receives honor in Xiongnu territory.

Ritual manipulation:

• Hanji 389-2 says Wei Lü has a Hu shaman claim that the dead old chanyu wants Li Guangli killed to sacrifice to the land spirit during the Great Yanzhi’s illness.

Outcome:

• Hanji 389-2 says Li Guangli is then killed, after cursing that he will destroy Xiongnu as a ghost.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 389-2. It does not reconstruct Wei Lü’s prior surrender history, official status under Xiongnu, relationship with Su Wu and Li Ling traditions, or primary-source variants. The current profile is limited to jealousy, ritual pretext, and Li Guangli’s death.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 389-2’s Wei Lü role in Li Guangli’s sacrificial death.

Relationships

• 李广利 / Li Guangli (Western Han) - captured Han general whose honor and death define Wei Lü’s current source role.
• 匈奴 / Xiongnu - political setting in which Wei Lü acts.
• Emperor Wu of Han / 汉武帝 - ruler whose failed expedition indirectly places Li Guangli in Wei Lü’s field.
• 轮台罪己诏政策转向 / Luntai Self-Criticism Policy Turn - broader episode context that makes Li Guangli’s fate part of Han Wudi’s war-cost reckoning.