Hàn Wǔdì 漢武帝
Seventh emperor of the Western Hàn 西漢, personal name Liú Chè 劉徹, r. 141–87 BCE. Under his reign the Five Classics (Wǔjīng 五經) — Yì 易, Shū 書, Shī 詩, Lǐ 禮, Chūnqiū 春秋 — were institutionalised as the canonical foundation of the imperial-examination Confucian curriculum, with appointed bóshì 博士 (“erudites”) for each. His reign is the conventional terminus a quo for the canonical state of the Zhōuyì and for the establishment of Confucian classicism as state ideology.