Deng Ai (鄧艾) | 24 Histories

Overview

Deng Ai was a general.

PeriodThree Kingdoms and Six Dynasties

IdentityHistorical · Male

Roles

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Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 263 三國魏
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 74, passage 56
AD 249 to AD 264 三國魏時
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 189, passage 111
AD 249 to AD 264 周瑜、魯肅、呂蒙、陸遜、陸抗、鄧艾、羊祜皆以其地顯名
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 436, passages 141-142
AD 220 to AD 264 鄧艾
Strongly inferred · History of Jin 50, passage 181

Key source chapters

Places and affiliations

Polity Cao Wei 曹魏 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · History of Song 436, passage 142; New Book of Tang 189, passage 111
At Jing-Xiang 荊襄 · Relation Won fame from
Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 142

Events and relationships

Left canal traces later followed
Hydraulic · Earlier engineer · Mode historical-allusion
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 111
Made name from Jing Xiang
Military · Commander
Directly stated · History of Song 436, passage 142
Repaired canals and irrigated 20000 qing
Engineering · Builder
Directly stated · History of Jin 50, passage 181

Source notes

Historicity historical · Three Kingdoms general invoked as comparison
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 74, passage 56
Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 111

References in the histories

History of Jin, Chapter 50Volume 50 Treatises 31: Finance and Economics 5: Monopoly Markets, State Purchase of Grain, Rice Fields, Agricultural Land Administration, Buying of Titles or Pardons With Grain and Selling of Ordination Certificates · 1 passage

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鄧艾修淮陽、百尺二渠，通淮、潁、大治諸陂于潁之南，穿渠三百餘裏，溉田二萬頃。 Deng Ai repaired the Huaiyang and Baichi canals, linking the Huai and Ying and major reservoirs south of the Ying with canals over 300 li long, irrigating 20,000 qing.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 74Volume 74 Book of Later Tang 50: Biographies 126: Kang Yanxiao, Zhu Shouyin, Yang Li, Dou Tingwan, Zhang Qianzhao, Yang Yanwen · 1 passage

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奈何躁憤，自毀功庸，入此檻車，還為鄧艾，深可痛惜，誰肯湣之！」 Why then let rash anger destroy everything you had won, and end in this cage like Deng Ai of old? It is a bitter waste. Who could pity you now?"

History of Song, Chapter 436Volume 436 Biographies 195: Confucian Scholars 6: Chen Liang, Zheng Qiaolinting, Li Daochuan · 1 passage

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周瑜、魯肅、呂蒙、陸遜、陸抗、鄧艾、羊祜皆以其地顯名。 Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Lü Meng, Lu Xun, Lu Kang, Deng Ai, and Yang Hu won fame there.

Book of Sui, Chapter 77Volume 77 Biographies 42: Recluses · 1 passage

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至若鯀為黃熊，杜宇為鶗鴂，褒君為龍，牛哀為獸，君子為鵠，小人為猿，彭生為豕，如意為犬，黃母為黿，宣武為鱉，鄧艾為牛，徐伯為魚，鈴下為烏，書生為蛇，羊祜前身，李氏之子，此非佛家變受異形之謂邪？」 Consider Gun becoming a yellow bear, Du Yu becoming a cuckoo, Lord Bao becoming a dragon, Niu Ai becoming a beast, the gentleman becoming a swan, the petty man becoming an ape, Peng Sheng becoming a pig, Ruyi becoming a dog, Lady Huang becoming a soft-shelled turtle, Xuan Wu becoming a river turtle, Deng Ai becoming an ox, Xu Bo becoming a fish, the bell-ringer becoming a crow, the scholar becoming a snake, Yang Hu's former incarnation, the son of the Li clan—are these not what Buddhism calls transformation into different forms?"

New Book of Tang, Chapter 189Volume 189 Biographies 114: Gao, Zhao, Tian, Zhu · 1 passage

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按鄧艾故跡，決翟王渠溉稻以利農。 Following the route of Deng Ai’s old canal, he opened the Zhaiwang Channel to irrigate the rice fields and benefit the farmers.