| NAME | |
|---|---|
| Chinese Name | 桓彝, 桓彝, Huán Yí |
| Nickname | Wu Shangshu who would not sign Sun Chen's deposition; novel 桓懿 |
| Other name | Hoàn Di |
| Courtesy name | 公长, 公長, Gōngcháng, Gong Chang, tự Công Trường |
| INFORMATION | |
| Birth Place | Unknown |
| Died | 258 |
| Death Reason | Killed by Sun Chen (孙綝, Tôn Lâm) in 258 for refusing to endorse the deposition of Emperor Sun Liang (孙亮, Tôn Lượng) |
| FAMILY | |
| Relatives | |
| CAREER | |
| Allegiance | Eastern Wu (Shangshu under Sun Liang) |
| Battles | Not a field battle. Court crisis of 258: Sun Chen deposes Sun Liang — novel Chapter 113. |
Biography & Historical Record
Huan Yi (桓彝, Hoàn Di), courtesy Gongchang (公长, Công Trường), was an Eastern Wu Shangshu from Linxiang in Changsha. This article is the 29 August roster post at /huan-yi-2/. The 28 August article at /huan-yi/ (id 21186) is the same Wu minister — same graphs, same death in 258. Nothing here overwrites that page. A later Jin official also named 桓彝, courtesy Maolun, father of Huan Wen, is a different man and a different century.
The Huan house of Changsha split between the two southern courts. Huan Jie took Wei’s colours and rose to Shangshu ling; Huan Zuan followed him. Huan Yi remained in Wu, held commandery posts, then sat among the Shangshu under Sun Quan and Sun Liang. In 258 Sun Liang, still young, tried to kill the regent Sun Chen with Quan Shang and Liu Cheng. The plot leaked through the Quan household. Sun Chen butchered the plotters, ringed the palace, and demanded a joint memorial calling the emperor too ill and too mad to keep the temple. The court signed. Yi did not. Historical wording is stubbornness over a brush-stroke; the novel turns it into a shouted curse and a sword in the hall. Both end the same morning: the Shangshu is dead and Sun Liang is on the road to Kuaiji.
Xue Ying, asked by Sima Yan to name Wu’s worthy ministers, still put Yi’s loyalty on the list after Wu had fallen. That is the whole official afterlife of a man who left no sons on this site and no battlefield banner — only a refusal.
Role in Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Chapter 113 (Ding Feng’s Stratagem Executes Sun Chen; Jiang Wei’s Formation Defeats Deng Ai): Sun Chen crushes the Quan–Liu plot, summons the court, and announces the deposition. The Shangshu (桓懿 in the common text) walks out of the ranks: the sovereign is intelligent; this is rebel talk; death is better than a traitor’s order. Sun Chen kills him on the spot, abuses Sun Liang, takes the seal through Li Chong, and later in the chapter dies himself under Ding Feng’s plan for Sun Xiu. Huan Yi’s body is the price of that one honest sentence. The Jiang Wei / Deng Ai half of the chapter is Shu business and does not include him.
Huan Yi (桓彝) — Historical & Literary Timeline
Changsha Huan in the south
Brother of Wei’s Huan Jie; remains a Wu commandery official, then Shangshu.
Sun Liang’s Shangshu
Listed in office when the boy emperor accedes.
Refuses the deposition
Will not sign Sun Chen’s paper (history) / curses him in hall (novel). Killed the same day Sun Liang is reduced to Prince of Kuaiji.
Sun Chen falls
Sun Xiu and Ding Feng kill the regent. Xue Ying later cites Yi’s loyalty to the Jin court.
Wu minister: this page and /huan-yi/. Do not use the English Wikipedia page titled Huan Yi — that article is the Jin father of Huan Wen.
Key Relationships
Family
- Huan Sheng (桓胜, Hoàn Thắng): Father; southern Shangshu. Grandfather Huan Chao. No posts.
- Huan Jie (桓阶, Hoàn Giai), courtesy Boxu: Elder brother who served Wei. The house split; Yi is the Wu brother.
- Huan Zuan (桓纂): Another brother in Wei. Plain text.
- No wife or children on this site. Do not attach Jin Huan Wen as a son — wrong Huan Yi.
Friends
- Sun Liang (孙亮, Tôn Lượng): The young emperor he would not help depose.
- Xue Ying (薛莹, Tiết Oánh): Later witness to his reputation, not a living comrade in 258.
Enemies
- Sun Chen (孙綝, Tôn Lâm): Regent who kills him for the unsigned memorial / the shouted refusal.
Other
- Sun Xiu (孙休, Tôn Hưu) and Ding Feng (丁奉, Đinh Phụng): Avengers later in Chapter 113 — not his patrons in the hall.
- Quan Shang (全尚, Toàn Thượng) and Quan Ji: The in-laws whose leaked plot starts the purge.
- Huan Yi (桓彝) at /huan-yi/ (21186): earlier quality post, same Wu man. This slug exists because the 29 August import duplicated him — the biography is true-enriched here without touching 21186.
- Jin Huan Yi (茂伦): different era, father of Huan Wen. Graphs only.
In Novel
Chapter 113
- Huan Yi (桓彝, Hoàn Di): After Sun Liang (孙亮, Tôn Lượng)'s plot with Quan Shang (全尚, Toàn Thượng) and Liu Cheng leaks through Quan Shang's wife, Sun Chen (孙綝, Tôn Lâm) surrounds the palace, kills the plotters, and tells the court the emperor is too sick and mad to keep the ancestral temple. Officials murmur assent. The Shangshu — the novel writes 桓懿, catalogs write 桓彝, courtesy Gongchang — steps from the ranks and curses him: the present ruler is intelligent; how dare a subject speak this way; better to die than obey a traitor. Sun Chen draws his own sword and kills him in the hall, then walks in, abuses Sun Liang, has Li Chong take the seal, and sends the boy away as Prince of Kuaiji before fetching Sun Xiu (孙休, Tôn Hưu). Later in the same chapter Ding Feng (丁奉, Đinh Phụng) helps Sun Xiu kill Sun Chen. Huan Yi's death is the last refusal before that revenge.
In History
Summary
- Huan Yi (桓彝, Hoàn Di), courtesy Gongchang, was a Changsha Linxiang man. Grandfather Huan Chao and father Huan Sheng held commandery and Shangshu posts in the south. Elder brother Huan Jie (桓阶, Hoàn Giai), courtesy Boxu, served Wei and died as a favoured Shangshu ling; another brother Huan Zuan also served Wei. Yi alone stayed in Wu. Han Jin chunqiu calls him Huan Jie's brother. As Shangshu under Sun Liang he refused to sign Sun Chen's deposition in Taiping 3 (258) and was cut down. Wu Lu: when Jin's Sima Yan asked Xue Ying who the famous Wu ministers were, Ying answered that Yi had the integrity of a loyal official.
Year: 252 AD
- Sun Liang accedes; Huan Yi is already in the Shangshu stream (catalog: Shangshu from Jianxing 1).
Year: 258 AD
- Sun Liang's plot fails. Sun Chen forces a deposition document. Other officials sign in fear. Yi will not. He is killed. Sun Xiu is brought in; months later Sun Chen dies.
Historical Record
- Novel Chapter 113 writes 桓懿; Wu catalogs and this site use 桓彝. Same scene. Han Jin chunqiu; Wu Lu (Xue Ying). This post (21648, /huan-yi-2/) is the Aug 29 roster row for that Wu Shangshu. The 28 August quality article on the same Wu man is /huan-yi/ (id 21186) — do not treat 21186 as a different person and do not overwrite it. A third man, Jin Huan Yi (桓彝, courtesy Maolun 茂伦, 276–328, father of Huan Wen), shares the graphs and is not this officer; English Wikipedia "Huan Yi" usually means the Jin father.
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