张汤母亲 / Mother of Zhang Tang (Western Han)

Overview

张汤母亲 / Mother of Zhang Tang enters the wiki through her refusal to give 张汤 an elaborate funeral after his suicide, turning burial restraint into a public claim that a high minister had died under false accusation.

Current Profile

Hanji 339-2 says Zhang’s family initially wants a costly burial, but his mother refuses because a minister who has died under hostile words is not entitled to such treatment. The family therefore uses only a coffin and an ox cart. In the episode’s causal account, that decision joins Zhang’s final letter and modest documented estate in persuading 汉武帝 that Zhang was wronged.

Key Characteristics

• Mother of Zhang Tang in the episode’s account.
• Rejects an elaborate funeral after her son’s suicide.
• Uses sparse burial as a judgment on the injustice of his death.
• Helps alter the emperor’s posthumous reading of the case.

Evidence

Funeral refusal:

• Hanji 339-2 says she rejects the family’s plan for a costly burial and has Zhang buried with a simple coffin and ox cart.

Political effect:

• Hanji 339-2 presents Han Wudi’s admiration of her response as part of his turn toward investigating Zhang’s accusers.

Qualifications

The source does not preserve her personal name or an independent biography. Her exact words, control over the funeral, the sequence of imperial reconsideration, and the relative weight of funeral conduct versus the will and estate remain episode-attributed.

What Changed

• Created the entity from the sparse-burial protest that helps reopen Zhang Tang’s case.

Relationships

• 张汤 / Zhang Tang (Western Han) - son whose burial she deliberately keeps sparse.
• Emperor Wu of Han / 汉武帝 - ruler whose judgment is affected by her funeral decision in the episode’s account.
• 身后功过昭雪 / Posthumous Merit Vindication - broader pattern in which conduct after death changes the official judgment of the deceased.