袁隗 / Yuan Wei (late Han)

Hanji 903 adds Yuan Wei’s earliest high-office marker in this wiki. The source transcript renders him as 袁伟, but the route remains 袁隗 because the senior late-Han office sequence matches the existing page. After Situ Xu Xu is removed, Yuan Wei is promoted from dahonglu to situ in the same early Emperor Ling field as 鲜卑 pressure and Southern Xiongnu succession.

Hanji 907 adds an earlier 176 CE office marker before Yuan Wei’s later Wang Yun rescue and succession-crisis roles. The transcript renders him as “袁伟”; this page keeps the canonical Yuan Wei route because the senior-office role matches the later late-Han official. In the source, Yuan Wei is removed as situ before 杨赐 is appointed in his place.

Hanji 931 backfills Yuan Wei before his 185 situ removal and later succession-crisis roles. The source transcript renders him as “袁伟”; this page keeps the canonical 袁隗 route because the late-Han senior-official role and rescue context match the existing Yuan Wei identity.

In this source, Yuan Wei joins 何进 and 杨赐 in rescuing 王允 after the Zhang Rang prison retaliation case. His significance is protective and procedural rather than coercive: before later sources show him handling unstable titles and seal transfer, Hanji 931 shows him helping preserve an upright official from quiet destruction.

Hanji 933 backfills Yuan Wei before his succession-crisis roles. The episode says he is removed as situ before 崔烈’s March appointment, making him part of high-office turnover already visible in 185 CE before later false-edict and coerced seal-transfer episodes.

Hanji 943 adds Yuan Wei at the moment 刘辩 / 弘农王 becomes emperor. The source says Yuan Wei is appointed taifu and shares memorial-handling authority with 何进, giving the new accession a senior Yuan-family procedural support before the later false-edict and forced seal-transfer episodes.

This makes Yuan Wei’s later roles less abrupt. In Hanji 943 he helps stabilize the He-backed succession through ordinary office; in Hanji 946 he uses false procedure during palace retaliation; in Hanji 948 董卓 forces him into formalizing a coerced emperor replacement.

Hanji 946 adds Yuan Wei before his later seal-transfer role under 董卓. After 何进 is killed, 袁绍 and Yuan Wei use a false edict to summon and kill 樊陵 and 许相, whose appointments had been forged by the eunuch side.

This makes Yuan Wei part of the same unstable title-and-office field that Hanji 948 later develops. In Hanji 946 he participates in retaliatory pseudo-procedure against eunuch-backed appointees; in Hanji 948 he is forced into real court procedure for Dong Zhuo’s deposition.

Hanji 948 later presents Yuan Wei as the Yuan-family elder and grand tutor whom 董卓 uses to formalize the deposition of 刘辩 / 弘农王. After 袁绍 refuses Dong Zhuo’s proposal and leaves Luoyang, Yuan Wei lacks the same room to resist and is made to participate in the ceremony.

His role is procedural rather than ideational. The source has Yuan Wei remove the imperial seal from Liu Bian and hand the position to 汉献帝, making him the visible court official through whom armed coercion receives ritual form. This makes him a source case for 名器合法性 under duress: the seal and office still matter, but the will behind them belongs to Dong Zhuo’s military control.

Connections

• Hanji 903, 汉灵帝, 鲜卑, and 南匈奴 - earliest situ appointment marker in the office-churn sequence.
• Hanji 907, 杨赐, and 汉灵帝 - earlier removal as situ in the 176 CE office sequence.
• Hanji 931, 王允, 何进, and 杨赐 - early rescue of Wang Yun after Zhang Rang’s retaliation.
• Hanji 933, 崔烈, and 买官名节损耗 - removal from the situ office before Cui Lie’s purchased appointment.
• Hanji 943, 刘辩 / 弘农王, 何进, and 名器合法性 - taifu appointment and shared memorial-handling role after accession.
• Hanji 946, 袁绍, 樊陵, 许相, 朝廷开府任官失序, and 宫廷政变暴力级联 - false edict used to kill eunuch-backed officeholders.
• 董卓 - coercive powerholder who forces the procedure.
• 袁绍 - Yuan-family kinsman whose earlier objection increases the family’s exposure.
• 刘辩 / 弘农王 and 汉献帝 - ruler displaced and ruler installed.
• 胁迫式废立, 名器合法性, and 朝廷开府任官失序 - concepts grounded by Yuan Wei’s coerced procedural role.