X-Nico

unusual facts about Western Han



Wensu County

The toponym Wensu (温宿) had appeared in historical records of the Western Han Dynasty of China as one of the 36 states in the Western Regions.


see also

Liu Hong

Emperor Houshao of Han (died 180 BC), personal name Liu Hong (劉弘), fourth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty

Liu Qi

Emperor Jing of Han, personal name Liu Qi, 6th emperor of the Western Han Dynasty

Liu Ying

Ruzi Ying (5–25), emperor of the Chinese Western Han Dynasty

Liubo

In 1993, a wooden board with turtle divination diagrams and prognostications on one side and a Liubo diagram and forty-five prognostications on five topics on the other side was excavated from a late Western Han tomb at Yinwan in Donghai County, Jiangsu.

Wu Hu

The dynasty also had to deal with the Qiang and Di on the western border, who had constantly been involved in skirmishes against the dynasty since the middle of Western Han Dynasty (around mid-first century BCE).