张酺 / Zhang Pu (Eastern Han)

Overview

张酺 / Zhang Pu enters the wiki as the senior official who reports the Liang birth-mother petition to Emperor He and gives the first practical answer to the hidden Liang Guiren case. His current role is narrow but pivotal: he converts a family grievance into a state-recognized maternal-status repair.

Current Profile

Hanji 770 identifies Zhang Pu as taiwei when Liang relatives petition the Three Excellencies after Dou Taihou dies. The petition says the Han honors an emperor’s birth mother, yet Liang Guiren had borne Emperor He without receiving proper title. Zhang Pu reports this to Emperor He, who is shocked and grieves.

When Emperor He asks what should be done, Zhang Pu recommends posthumous recognition for Liang Guiren and restoration of the maternal uncles’ status. The emperor immediately accepts. Zhang Pu’s role therefore sits between information channel and remedy design: he does not create the grievance, but he supplies a legitimate path by which Emperor He can act on it.

The page’s current synthesis is that Zhang Pu is an enabling minister for imperial birth-mother recognition. His advice begins the redress, while the later dispute over Dou Taihou’s title belongs to Emperor He’s own choice of straight redress without revenge.

Key Characteristics

• Taiwei who receives and reports the Liang relatives’ petition after Dou Taihou’s death.
• Information channel through which Emperor He learns his birth-mother identity.
• Adviser who recommends posthumous title repair and maternal-kin recognition.
• Pivotal but source-bounded court actor; the current wiki does not yet reconstruct his broader career.
• Linked to a successful redress opening rather than to the later pressure to demote Dou Taihou.

Evidence

• Petition channel: Hanji 770 says Liang relatives submit the birth-mother grievance to the Three Excellencies and Zhang Pu reports it to Emperor He.
• Imperial reaction: Hanji 770 says Emperor He is surprised and grieves after hearing Zhang Pu’s report.
• Remedy advice: Hanji 770 says Zhang Pu advises giving Liang Guiren posthumous honor and finding the emperor’s maternal uncles.
• Acceptance: Hanji 770 says Emperor He immediately accepts Zhang Pu’s proposal.

Qualifications

The source gives Zhang Pu a clear function in the Liang case but not a full biography. His broader political alignment, earlier offices, and later career remain outside the bounded evidence. The page also keeps him separate from unrelated Zhang-name figures elsewhere in the wiki.

What Changed

• Created Zhang Pu as the official who turns the hidden Liang birth-mother claim into actionable court redress.

Relationships

• 汉和帝 - ruler to whom Zhang Pu reports the birth-mother claim.
• 梁贵人 - wronged consort whose posthumous recognition Zhang Pu recommends.
• 窦太后 - deceased dowager whose death opens the petition window.
• 皇帝生母名分追认 - status-repair concept for which Zhang Pu supplies the first remedy.
• 以直报怨式平反 - broader settlement pattern that begins with Zhang Pu’s recognition advice.