许平君 / Xu Pingjun (Western Han)

Overview

许平君 / Xu Pingjun enters the wiki through Hanji 540 as 汉宣帝’s earlier empress and the birth mother of crown prince 刘奭 / 汉元帝.

Current Profile

The episode uses Xu Pingjun as background to 邛成太后’s elevation. After Xu was poisoned by the Huo family, Emperor Xuan sought a cautious and childless consort to serve as empress and raise Liu Shi. Xu therefore matters in this source less through her own court activity than through the succession-protection problem her death created.

Key Characteristics

• Western Han empress linked to Emperor Xuan.
• Mother of Liu Shi, the future Emperor Yuan.
• Poisoned by the Huo family according to the episode’s background summary.
• Her death creates the need for a politically safer foster-empress arrangement.

Evidence

Mother of the crown prince:

• Hanji 540 says Xu Pingjun was the birth mother of crown prince Liu Shi.

Poisoning and aftermath:

• Hanji 540 says Emperor Xuan pitied the crown prince after Xu Pingjun was poisoned by the Huo family and chose a cautious childless consort to raise him.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 540’s background use. It does not reconstruct Xu Pingjun’s full biography, the full Huo-family poisoning case, or the later political memory of her death.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 540 as the background empress whose death explains Qiongcheng Taihou’s foster-empress role.

Relationships

• 汉宣帝 - husband whose later empress selection responds to her death.
• 汉元帝 - son whose protection motivates the foster-empress arrangement.
• 邛成太后 - later empress chosen to raise her son.
• 西汉 - dynastic setting for the episode’s succession-protection background.