Emperor Wu of Han
Seventh emperor of the Han dynasty of China (157 BC-87 BC) · Writers · Lived 156 BC to 87 BC · aged 69
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Something wrong?He ruled China for 54 years - longer than any ethnic Han emperor before or since - and turned the Han dynasty into an empire that stretched from the Fergana Valley to northern Korea.
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Yellow line indicates the territory under Qin empire (the dynasty prior to Han).
The territory of Han empire (dark orange) before Emperor Wu's reign, the new territory (bright orange) conquered during Emperor Wu's reign (reigned"}]]}">r. 141-87 BC), and combined the largest expansion under Emperor Wu's reign (outlined with wide brown line).
Chinese ceramic statues of cavalry and infantry, wearing armour and bearing shields (with missing weapons), from the Yangjiawan terracotta army, Hainan Provincial Museum
Ceramic statues of a prancing horse (foreground) and a cavalryman on horseback (background), Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
A scene of historic paragons of filial piety conversing with one another, Chinese painted artwork on a lacquered basketwork box, excavated from an Eastern-Han tomb of what was the Chinese Lelang Commandery in present-day North Korea
Emperor Wu dispatching Zhang Qian to Central Asia from 138 to 126 BC, Mogao Caves mural, 618-712 ADIn their own words 1
, Autumn wind rises, white clouds fly. Grass and trees wither; geese go south.
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Liu Che took the throne in 141 BC at a moment when northern raiders still threatened the frontier. He repelled the Xiongnu, then dispatched Zhang Qian west in 139 BC to find allies among the Greater Yuezhi and Kangju - missions that opened China to Central Asia and may have brought the first Buddhist statues into the empire, long before he could have understood what they were. At home he reorganized the economy, expanded the state apparatus, and adopted Confucianism as the official philosophy, founding a school to train administrators in the classics. The synthesis he forged - Legalist ruthlessness tempered by Confucian ideals - became the template for Chinese imperial governance. He also elevated the Imperial Music Bureau and championed the arts. When he died in 87 BC, the Han dynasty stood at its territorial peak, and the system he'd built would shape China and its neighbours for the next two thousand years.
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