赵典 / Zhao Dian (late Han)

Overview

赵典 / Zhao Dian enters the wiki through Hanji 870 as the taichang who recommends 荀爽 after a solar eclipse prompts 汉桓帝 to request filial candidates.

Current Profile

Zhao Dian’s role is narrow but structurally useful. He is not developed as an independent political actor; he supplies the recommendation channel that brings Xun Shuang into the court examination field where harem burden and palace extravagance can be criticized under a formally acceptable filial-recommendation process.

Key Characteristics

• Taichang in the Hanji 870 recommendation scene.
• Recommends Xun Shuang after the 166 CE solar-eclipse response.
• Functions as a channel between omen-triggered court demand and scholar-official criticism.
• Remains source-bounded; no wider career profile is established here.

Evidence

• Office and recommendation: Hanji 870 says Zhao Dian, as taichang, recommends Xun Shuang when Huan asks offices and commanderies to present highly filial people.
• Link to criticism: Hanji 870 makes the recommendation the route by which Xun Shuang’s harem-burden answer reaches Huan.
• Omen setting: Hanji 870 places the recommendation after the first-day solar eclipse in 166 CE.

Qualifications

The current wiki does not establish Zhao Dian’s full career or factional position. His page should remain source-bounded unless later sources supply more evidence.

What Changed

• Created a source-bounded Zhao Dian page from Hanji 870.

Relationships

• 荀爽 - candidate Zhao Dian recommends in the Hanji 870 court field.
• 汉桓帝 - ruler whose eclipse response creates the recommendation request.
• 天象政治责任 - omen frame that prompts the recommendation scene.
• 时绌举赢 - concept later voiced through Xun Shuang’s harem-burden answer.