Emperor Gengshi of Han
| Liu Xuan | |||||||||||||
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| Emperor of the Han Dynasty | |||||||||||||
| Died | 25 | ||||||||||||
| Burial | Baling | ||||||||||||
| Spouse | Consort Zhao Consort Han Consort Fan |
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| Father | Liu Zizhang | ||||||||||||
| Mother | Lady He | ||||||||||||
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Family name: Liu 劉 Given name: Xuan 玄 Courtesy name: Shenggong 聖公 The Gengshi Emperor 更始帝 Marquess Weiwei 畏威侯 Prince of Changsha 长沙王 |
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| Era dates | |
| Gengshi 更始 (23-25) | |
| Posthumous name | |
| Prince Wushun of Huaiyang 淮阳武順王 |
The Gengshi Emperor (Chinese: 更始帝; pinyin: Gēngshǐ Dì; Wade–Giles: Keng-shih-ti; died AD 25), was an emperor of the Han Dynasty restored after the fall of Wang Mang's Xin Dynasty. He was also known by his courtesy name Shenggong (simplified Chinese: 圣公; traditional Chinese: 聖公) and as the King or Prince of Huaiyang (simplified Chinese: 淮阳王; traditional Chinese: 淮陽王; pinyin: Huáiyáng Wáng), a posthumous title bestowed upon him by Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han. The Gengshi Emperor was viewed as a weak and incompetent ruler, who briefly ruled over an empire willing to let him rule over them, but was unable to keep that empire together. He was eventually deposed by the Chimei and strangled a few months after his defeat.
Traditional historians treat his emperor status ambiguously—and sometimes he would be referred to as an emperor (with reference to his era name—thus, the Gengshi Emperor) and sometimes he would be referred to by his posthumous title, Prince of Huaiyang. The later title implied that he was only a pretender and the Eastern Han was the legitimate restoration of the earlier Han.
Late in Wang Mang's reign as the emperor of Xin Dynasty, there were agrarian revolts virtually everywhere in the empire, due to Wang's incompetent rule and the natural disasters of the time. The two largest branches were the Lülin (concentrated in modern southern Henan and northern Hubei) and Chimei (concentrated in modern southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu).
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