Chang Yuchun (常遇春)

Overview

The translated histories identify Chang Yuchun as a general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 9 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Chang Yuchun	常遇春	Chang Yuchun
Surname	Chang	常	Cháng
Personal name	Chang Yuchun	常遇春	Chang Yuchun
Personal name	Chang Yuchun	常遇春
Title	General Chang	常將軍
Title	General Chang Yuchun	將軍常遇春
Title	Prince of Kaiping	開平王
Personal name	Yuchun	遇春	Yùchūn

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · mingshi:127:s0053, mingshi:140:s0241
Sex: male
Explicit · mingshi:140:s0249

Roles

General
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 參常遇春軍務 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1368 · End: AD 1369
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:127:s0119
Source Date: Text: 洪武三年大封功臣 · Western Year: AD 1370
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0049, mingshi:127:s0053
Source Date: Text: 洪武元年 · Western Year: AD 1368
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:115:s0020, mingshi:115:s0015
Source Date: Text: 洪武初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1368 · End: AD 1369
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:140:s0241
Source Date: Text: 遇春師過其境 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1368 · End: AD 1369
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:140:s0249, mingshi:140:s0251, mingshi:140:s0256

Family

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Parent of Empress Xiaokang (孝康皇后)
Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
Parent of Chang Mao (常茂)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

Label: general / 將軍
Explicit · mingshi:140:s0241, mingshi:140:s0251, mingshi:140:s0257
Label: 太子少保 · Action: concurrent
Explicit · mingshi:115:s0020
Label: 中書平章錄軍國重事 · Action: held
Explicit · mingshi:115:s0020

Places and affiliations

Label: Ming / 明 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · mingshi:140:s0249

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: army-passed-through-Linzi · Place: Linzi / 臨淄
Explicit · mingshi:140:s0249
Kind: judicial · Role: commander · Action: questioned-then-apologized-to-magistrate · Other Person Id: Ouyang Ming (歐陽銘)
Explicit · mingshi:140:s0251, mingshi:140:s0256
Relation: tutor-of · Person Id: Zhu Biao (朱標)
Explicit · mingshi:115:s0020, mingshi:115:s0021
Relation: commander-confronting · Person Id: Ouyang Ming (歐陽銘)
Explicit · mingshi:140:s0251, mingshi:140:s0256

References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 115Volume 115 Biographies 3: Emperor Xingzong Xiaokang, Emperor Ruizong Xingxian · 2 passages

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於是左丞相李善長兼太子少師，右丞相徐達兼太子少傅，中書平章錄軍國重事常遇春兼太子少保，右都督馮宗異兼右詹事，中書平章政事胡廷端、廖永忠、李伯升兼同知詹事院事，中書左、右丞趙庸、王溥兼副詹事，中書參政楊憲兼詹事丞，傅瓛兼詹事，同知大都督康茂才、張興祖兼左右率府使，大都督府副使顧時、孫興祖同知左右率府事，僉大都督府事吳楨、耿炳文兼左右率府副使，御史大夫鄧愈、湯和兼諭德，御史中丞劉基、章溢兼贊善大夫，治書侍御史文原吉、范顯祖兼太子賓客。 Li Shanchang, left chancellor, became junior tutor; Xu Da, right chancellor, junior mentor; Chang Yuchun, associate director for military affairs, junior guardian; Feng Zongyi, right commissioner, right household master; Hu Tingduan, Liao Yongzhong, and Li Bosheng, associate directors, associate household masters; Zhao Yong and Wang Pu, vice directors, deputy household masters; Yang Xian, participating secretary, household master assistant; Fu Rong, household master; Kang Maocai and Zhang Xingzu, associate capital commissioners, left and right rate-office commandants; Gu Shi and Sun Xingzu, deputy commissioners, associate commandants; Wu Zhen and Geng Bingwen, commissioners, deputy commandants; Deng Yu and Tang He, censors-in-chief, preceptors; Liu Ji and Zhang Yi, vice censors-in-chief, senior companions; Wen Yuanji and Fan Xianzu, investigating secretaries, crown prince's guests.

孝康皇后常氏，開平王遇春女。 Empress Xiaokang Lady Chang was the daughter of Prince of Kaiping Chang Yuchun.

History of Ming, Chapter 127Volume 127 Biographies 15: Li Shanzhang, Wang Guangyang · 2 passages

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時封公者，徐達、常遇春子茂、李文忠、馮勝、鄧愈及善長六人。 Six men received ducal rank: Xu Da, Mao son of Chang Yuchun, Li Wenzhong, Feng Sheng, Deng Yu, and Shanzhang.

尋知驍騎衛事，參常遇春軍務。 He soon oversaw the Valiant Cavalry Guard and shared in Chang Yuchun's campaigns.

History of Ming, Chapter 140Volume 140 Biographies 28: Wei Guan, Tao Houzhong, Liu Shihuan, Wang Zongxian, Lu Wensui, Wang Guan, Dao Tong, Lu Xi, Qing Wensheng · 5 passages

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先是有歐陽銘者，亦嘗以事抗將軍常遇春。 Earlier there had been Ouyang Ming, who likewise once stood up to the general Chang Yuchun.

遇春師過其境，卒入民家取酒，相毆擊，一市盡嘩。 When Yuchun's army passed through, soldiers entered a civilian home to seize wine and brawled until the whole market was in an uproar.

卒訴令罵將軍，遇春詰之。 The soldiers complained that the magistrate had insulted the general, and Yuchun summoned him for questioning.

遇春意解，為責軍士以謝。 Yuchun's anger cooled; he rebuked his soldiers and apologized.

後大將軍徐達至，軍士相戒曰：「是健吏，曾抗常將軍者，毋犯也。」 Later, when Grand General Xu Da arrived, the soldiers warned one another, "That is the tough magistrate who stood up to General Chang. Do not cross him."