| | Qin Er Shi (秦二世) | | Ancestral name (姓): | Ying (嬴) | | Clan name (氏): | Zhao¹ (趙), or Qin² (秦) | | Given name (名): | Huhai (胡亥) | | Dates of reign: | Oct. 210 BC–beg. Oct. 207 BC | | Official name: | Second Emperor (二世皇帝) | | Temple name: | None³. | | Posthumous name: | None4 | | General note: Dates given are in the proleptic Julian calendar. | | ——— | 1. This clan name appears in the Records of the Grand Historian written by Sima Qian. Apparently, the First Emperor (father of the Second Emperor) being born in the State of Zhao where his father was an hostage, he later adopted Zhao as his clan name (in ancient China clan names often changed from generation to generation), but this is not totally sure. | 2. Based on ancient China naming patterns, we can infer that Qin was the clan name of the royal house of the State of Qin, derived from the name of the state. Other branches of the Ying ancestral family, enfeoffed in other states, had other clan names. Qin was thus possibly also the clan name of the Second Emperor. | 3. The royal house of Qin did not carry the practice of temple names, which were not used anymore since the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, so the Second Emperor does not have a temple name per se. However, his official name "Second Emperor" can somehow be assimilated to a temple name, being the name under which the emperor would have been honored in the temple of the ancestors of the dynasty. | 4. Posthumous names were abolished in 221 BC by the First Emperor who deemed them inappropriate and contrary to filial piety. | Qin Er Shi (229 BC - beginning October 207 BC), literally Second Emperor of Qin Dynasty, personal name Huhai, was emperor of the Qin Dynasty in China from 210 BC until 207 BC. A Chinese surname, also called a clan name or family name (姓, pinyin: x ng; or 氏, shi), is one of the over seven hundred family names used by Han Chinese and Sinicized Chinese ethnic groups. ...
A Chinese surname, also called a clan name or family name (姓, pinyin: x ng; or 氏, shi), is one of the over seven hundred family names used by Han Chinese and Sinicized Chinese ethnic groups. ...
Chinese given names (Chinese: åå; pinyin: mÃngzì) are made up of one or two characters. ...
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Temple names (Traditional Chinese: å»è Simplified Chinese: åºå· Pinyin: mià o hà o;), are commonly used when naming most Chinese, Vietnamese (such dynasties as Tran,Anterior Lê and Nguyen Dynasty) and most Korean rulers of the Goryeo and Joseon Dynasties. ...
A posthumous name (Traditional Chinese: è«¡è/è¬è Simplified Chinese: è°¥å·; Pinyin: shì hà o; Romaji: shigÅ/tsuigÅ; Revised Romanization of Korean: siho) is a honorary name given to royalty in some cultures posthumously, that is, after the persons death. ...
The proleptic Julian calendar is produced by extending the Julian calendar to dates preceding its official introduction in 45 BC. Historians since Bede have traditionally represented the years preceding AD 1 as 1 BC, 2 BC, etc. ...
The Records of the Grand Historian or the Records of the Grand Historian of China (Chinese: å²è¨; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Shih-chi; literally Historical Records), written from 109 BCE to 91 BCE, was the magnum opus of Sima Qian, in which he recounted Chinese history from the time of the mythical...
Sima Qian (circa 145â90 BC) was a Prefect of the Grand Scribes (太å²ä»¤) of the Han Dynasty. ...
Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇) (November or December 260 BC - September 10, 210 BC), personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 BC to 221 BC, and then the first emperor of a unified China from 221 BC to 210 BC, ruling under the name First...
State of Zhao (small seal script, 220 BC) Zhao (pinyin: zhao4, simplified Chinese: 赵, traditional Chinese: 趙) was a Chinese state during the Warring States Period. ...
The Qin empire in 210 BC, during the Qin Dynasty. ...
The Zhou Dynasty (卿; Wade-Giles: Chou Dynasty (also Chow or Jou)) (late 10th century BC or 9th century BC to 256 BC) followed the Shang (Yin) Dynasty and preceded the Qin Dynasty in China. ...
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The Qin Dynasty (秦æ Pinyin QÃn, Wade-Giles Chin; 221 BC - 207 BC) was preceded by the Zhou Dynasty and followed by the Han Dynasty in China. ...
The emperor or huangdi (çå¸ in pinyin: huang2 di4) of China was the head of government and head of state of China from the Qin dynasty in 221 B.C. until the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911. ...
The Qin Dynasty (秦æ Pinyin QÃn, Wade-Giles Chin; 221 BC - 207 BC) was preceded by the Zhou Dynasty and followed by the Han Dynasty in China. ...
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Qin Er Shi was the son of Qin Shi Huang (the First Emperor of Qin), but he was not the original crown prince. In 210 BC, he accompanied his father on a trip to Eastern China, during which trip his father died suddenly. Under the advice of the chief eunuch Zhao Gao and prime minister Li Si, he forged a fake decree of his father, which ordered his brother, the heir Fusu, to commit suicide and appointed himself to be the heir. Qin Shi Huang (秦å§ç) (November or December 260 BC-September 10, 210 BC), personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 BC to 221 BC, and then the first emperor of a unified China from 221 BC to 210 BC, ruling under the...
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Zhao Gao è¶é« (died end of October 207 BC) was the chief eunuch during the Qin Dynasty of China, who played an instrumental role in the downfall of the Qin Dynasty. ...
Li Si (Chinese: 李斯; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Li Ssu) (ca. ...
Fusu (扶蘇) (died 210 BC) was the first son of the First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, and hence the heir by tradition. ...
Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act. ...
As emperor, he was not able to contend with nationwide rebels. He depended on Zhao Gao so much that he himself acted like a puppet emperor. In 207 BC, the Qin dynasty was on the brink of collapse and Zhao Gao was afraid that Qin Er Shi would ask him to take the blame. Therefore, Zhao Gao conspired with others to force the emperor to commit suicide. Figurehead monarch, as source of legitimity and possibly divine reign, has been the used form of government in several situations and places of history. ...
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A son of Fusu, Ziying, was made king of Qin by Zhao Gao. Ziying soon killed Zhao Gao and surrendered to Liu Bang one year later. Ziying (子嬰 zi5 ying1) ( ? - end of January 206 BC) was the last ruler of the Qin Dynasty of China, ruling as King of Qin (秦王) from mid-October to the beginning of December 207 BC. He was the son of Fusu (扶蘇), who was the eldest son of the First...
Emperor Gao (256 BC or 247 BC–June 1, 195 BC), commonly known inside China as Gaozu, personal name Liu Bang, was the first emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty, ruling over China from 202 BC until 195 BC, and one of only two dynasty founders who emerged from the...
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