未央宫 / Weiyang Palace
Hanji 963 adds a late-Han use of Weiyang Palace as assassination setting. 汉献帝 holds court there after recovering from illness, while 王允 and 吕布 use the palace access route to ambush 董卓 at the north gate.
未央宫 / Weiyang Palace enters the wiki through Hanji 171 part 2 as the palace 刘邦 orders built on the old Qin Zhangtai Palace base after the early 西汉 court has moved toward 长安. The episode says it is completed in Han year nine.
The source treats Weiyang Palace as the second half of the new capital’s court geography. 长乐宫 begins as Liu Bang’s residence, but Weiyang Palace later becomes the ordinary imperial residence while Changle Palace becomes associated with the empress dowager.
This makes Weiyang Palace a material sign that the Han founding order is moving from campaign settlement into durable court routine. The same episode that describes regional kingship suspicion also shows the center building the physical spaces from which that suspicion and administration will operate.
Hanji 178 part 2 adds the completion and controversy of the palace. 萧何 argues that the emperor’s residence must be grand enough to display authority and that building it once will spare later additions, while 司马光 criticizes the project as luxury during poverty and unsettled war.
The host adds a source-scoped motive reading: Xiao He’s explanation may be giving 刘邦 a respectable public justification for the imperial grandeur Liu Bang himself had long desired. Weiyang Palace therefore becomes not only infrastructure but a case where 时绌举赢, imperial awe, and face-saving rhetoric collide.
Connections
- Hanji 963, 董卓, 吕布, 王允, and 刺杀接近凭证 - late-Han palace access and assassination scene.
- Hanji 178 part 2, 萧何, 司马光, 时绌举赢, and 宗正 - palace completion, moral criticism, and clan-office setup after entry.
- Hanji 171 part 2 - source page.
- 刘邦, 长安, and 西汉 - founding ruler, capital, and dynasty.
- 长乐宫, 刘盈, and 吕雉 - paired palace order in the later Western Han court.