温序 / Wen Xu (Eastern Han)

Overview

温序 / Wen Xu is synthesized as a source-bounded Eastern Han loyalist whose current evidence comes from Hanji 708. He appears in the western conflict with Wei Xiao as a captured Taiyuan man who refuses surrender, rebukes the captor, and kills himself with a sword.

Current Profile

Hanji 708 presents Wen Xu as a martyr figure before the Ji Zun mourning story. Wei Xiao’s subordinate Gou Yu captures him and tries to persuade him to surrender. Wen Xu angrily curses rather than comply and then commits suicide.

The source also gives a posthumous state-recognition branch. After Wen Xu’s body returns to Luoyang, Liu Xiu grants him a burial place and appoints his three sons as lang. The page should therefore treat him as a loyalty-memory case rather than a fully developed official biography.

Key Characteristics

• Taiyuan man in the western conflict field around Wei Xiao.
• Captured actor who refuses surrender and answers persuasion with open rebuke.
• Suicide martyr whose body is returned to Luoyang.
• Posthumously recognized through burial grant and appointments for his sons.
• Source-bounded figure whose broader career and family remain undeveloped.

Evidence

• Capture context: Hanji 708 says Wen Xu is captured in fighting connected to Wei Xiao’s side.
• Refusal and suicide: Hanji 708 says Wen Xu rejects surrender persuasion, curses angrily, and uses a sword to kill himself.
• Posthumous recognition: Hanji 708 says Liu Xiu grants a burial place after Wen Xu’s body returns to Luoyang and appoints his three sons as lang.

Qualifications

The source does not provide Wen Xu’s office history, exact battlefield role, family names, or later cult of memory. His sons’ appointments show recognition of loyal death, but the page should not infer a wider family-patronage story without further evidence.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 708 as a compact loyal-death and posthumous-recognition case.

Relationships

• 光武帝刘秀 - ruler who grants burial and appoints Wen Xu’s sons after his death.
• 隗嚣 - western adversary field in which Wen Xu is captured by Wei Xiao’s side.
• 因功赏罚 - related because loyal death is answered through burial and family appointments.
• 祭遵 - neighboring Hanji 708 death-memory case, though Ji Zun’s death is illness rather than suicide under capture.